Michael Kargel spent years drumming in German indie-pop and rockabilly outfits before turning producer and starting Neumayer Station. Crossings, his debut album, was recorded across three years in Nuremberg with co-producer Frank Mollena, who runs the Fürsattl and Bambi Davidson projects, and a rotating cast of local players. The result pulls from kosmische drift, CAN's stoned sprawl and sun-baked Balearic moods without settling into any one template.
Opener Unterführung layers hazy vocals over space-rock guitar, analogue synth drone and slow drum breaks heavy on effects. Nalut adds dub delay to tropical guitar and saxophone, while A Gentle Flow leans on brushed percussion, emotive piano and stretched electronic textures. Bassrutscher brings Americana guitar into a dub framework with rim-shot drums and organ. Zielgerade picks up the tempo, its loose groove carrying droning sax and synth lines that feel both driving and detached.
The closing pair, Feeling Forst's kosmische synth darting around acoustic guitar, then the sax-led krautrock title track, were worth the wait. This is for anyone chasing the overlap between German psychedelia and Balearic slowburn, recorded with patience and a willingness to let tracks unspool past the obvious edit point.
