Annexus Quam

This early-'70s Krautrock band from Kamp-Lintfort, a suburb of Düsseldorf, mixed jazz, rock, avant-garde, and psychedelic music into a unique blend on their two albums. Their name, which roughly translates as "connection" or "connection how," referred to their intent to connect many types of both conventional and new music. The group began in September 1967 with the name Ambition of Music, playing a fairly typical though creative blend of hippie rock. By 1968 the group had merged with a local evangelical brass band to add a more jazz-styled free form of trumpets, trombones, a...