Sula Bassana has unveiled “Krachgarten,” a previously unreleased track taken from the new archival album “Time Travel – Rare & Obscure Tracks from the Decades,” out on February 06, 2026.
Stream “Krachgarten” via the YouTube player below:
Sula Bassana is the musical project of Dave Schmidt, Psychedelic/Space Rock and Electronic musician and founder of Sulatron Records. The new album collects rare, obscure and unreleased recordings, tracing a retrospective journey from the present day back to the mid and late 1990s, covering several phases of the project’s long creative history.
The single “Krachgarten” was originally recorded in 2012 but never included on a full-length album. It first appeared on the Bandcamp sampler “Here Comes The Sun” in 2020, and is now officially part of a cohesive archival release. The track reflects Sula Bassana’s exploratory approach, rooted in Psychedelic Rock, Space Rock and Krautrock aesthetics, with a strong focus on atmosphere, repetition and textural development.
“Time Travel – Rare & Obscure Tracks from the Decades” is conceived as a time-travel experience through different recording periods and contexts. The album includes live material, home recordings, Experimental sessions and tracks spanning nearly three decades. Among them is “Ridin’ (instrumental version, live),” recorded in Hamburg in April 2024 with the Sula Bassana band, alongside compositions dating back to the mid-1990s.
All songs, instruments, recording, mix and production are handled by Dave Schmidt, except where noted. The cover artwork is also by Schmidt. The release highlights the raw, spontaneous and often intimate side of Sula Bassana’s output, presenting material that until now was scattered across limited releases or remained entirely unreleased.
Purchase “Time Travel – Rare & Obscure Tracks from the Decades” on Bandcamp: https://sulabassana.bandcamp.com/album/time-travel-rare-obscure-tracks-from-the-decades
— The Tracks —
01 – “Ridin’” was recorded live in Hamburg in April 2024 with the Sula Bassana band.
Recorded by Funcky, mixed by Sula. 2 more tracks from the concert available here: https://sulabassana.bandcamp.com/album/split-lp-with-skyjoggers
Lineup:
Kristina Schmitz / Bass
Adrian Grod / Guitar
Franz Fesel / Drums
Dave Schmidt/Sula / Guitar
The track was composed in 2006 and you find the original version on the Sula Bassana and the Nasoni Pop Art Experimental Band Vol. 1 album, a bit different and with vocals by Elli Popelli.
2 – “Krachgarten” was recorded in 2012 but never made it into an album. It was released on a Bandcamp sampler called “Here Comes The Sun” in 2020.
03 – “Arkelanfall” was recorded in 2009 and never made it into an album or elsewhere. Here Martin Schorn (Modulfix) spent some additional Synthesizer sounds if I remember right.
04 – “Animal Farm” was recorded in 2008 as a joke, using some animal sounds from a library CD. Previously unreleased.
05 – “Was Du Denkst” was recorded in 2006 (or maybe earlier) and never made it into an album. Previously unreleased.
06 – “Soulcake” was recorded over several years. The basic echo-guitar tracks were recorded on my old cassette 8-track machine in the late 90s or early 2000s if I remember right. Maybe the bass too. But the drums and the lead guitars came later, in 2005. And then nothing happened with the track until it was released on the CD “Space Test Sampler,” of the Peace Frog magazine issue 3, from Greece, in 2011.
07 – “Fiebertraum” was recorded in the second half of the 90s and was released on the CD-R “Sulatronics” in 2003 (Sulatron Records) in a tiny issue of maybe 50 copies. It was actually recorded after a feverish night with a cold.
08 – “Paranoid?” was also recorded in the late 90s and found it’s place on the “Sulatronics” CD-R too. You find three more tracks from the “Sulatronics” CD-R as the bonustracks of the “Kosmonauts” 2xLP version: https://sulabassana.bandcamp.com/album/kosmonauts
09 – “Suomenlinna” was recorded in the mid 90s, or maybe late 90s, can’t remember. It was influenced by a walk in winter, with cold, snowy and foggy weather, on the island near Helsinki, which I did when I was a child. Previously unreleased.
10 – “Pilzwald” was a session together with Alexander Bulgrin, back then the singer (or ex singer) of Liquid Visions. In the late 90s I would say. We gathered a lot of small instruments around us, such as kalimba, ocarina, snake charmer flute, bamboo flute, toy glockenspiel, rainstick and so on, 2 microphones, a multi effect and some delays, plus some synthesizers and a drummachine. Tuned in and fell deep into sound. Recorded “live” at home on to my DAT recorder. Previously unreleased.