Walter Wegmuller

Walter Wegmüller wasn't actually a musician, but rather a mystic, artist, and eccentric. Some of the cream of cosmic Krautrock backed him up on his one album, Tarot, which is generally considered a masterpiece. This Swiss Gypsy was well-known in the late '60s, where he hung out with Sergius Golowin and visual artist H.R. Giger, and in the early '70s, with Timothy Leary, on the run from the American authorities. At this time, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, rock journalist and head of Ohr Records, decided to start a new label, Kosmische Musik, to release more cosmic sounds, with the idea o...