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Not much is known about this obscure trio from Hamburg, Germany who only released one record 
during their short existence. That album, 4 Times Sound Razing, from 1971 is one of the lost classics 
of Krautrock, an album that combines proto-heavy metal energy with free-form improvisation. 
Silberbart, whose name means Silver Beard, was formed in early 1971 by Hajo Teschner on guitars and 
vocals, Peter Behrens on drums and percussion, and Werner Klug on bass. Teschner had been in a 
Shadows-styled band Die Schocker in the mid-'60s before moving from a small town to Hamburg in 
1967 to join the Tonics, a group that did studio work, television work, and even did some backup on 
some LPs for the Philips label in a musical style that Teschner would later describe as "everything that 
pleased and scratched nobody." When this group disbanded in 1970, Teschner, who had been interested
in free jazz since age 15, was ready for something more adventuresome, and thus the experimental 
power trio Silberbart was born. Given his connections with Philips, he was even able to wrangle an 
album from the label. The trio recorded the album in April and May of 1971, and the record, 4 Times 
Sound Razing, was released shortly after. The record contained just four long tracks, based on blues 
and heavy metal, but with a unique free-form structure and bizarre vocals on top. Unfortunately the 
strange, angst-imbued record did not attract much attention at the time, and with poor sales, Philips 
declined to keep the band on the label. The group kept going until the end of 1972 and then dissolved 
because of financial problems. Though Silberbart were barely known during their existence, by the end 
of the '70s they had appeared on the Nurse with Wound list of influences, as well as been being 
described as one of the most original bands in Germany in Tibor Knief's Einführung in die Rockmusik 
(Introduction to Rock Music) Over the years, Silberbart's obscure LP has become legendary among 
collectors.

Tracks
01. Chub Chub Cherry 4:23
02. Brain Brain 16:16
03. God 10:07
04. Head Tear Of The Drunken Sun 12:00

Werner Klug - Bass
Peter Behrens - Drums, Percussion
Hajo Teschner - Guitar, Vocal
H. O. Mertens - Producer
Thomas Kuckuck - Producer, Recorded By, Engineer