Ash Ra Tempel played their last concert in February 1973, their final album
Starring Rosi was recorded later that year (featuring future Ashra member
Harald Grosskopf). At the demise of Ash Ra Tempel, Göttsching remained musically inactive until 1975 when he released his debut solo album
Inventions for Electric Guitar. This album introduced the effects he would later make use of in his work as Ashra, but in a much more basic form. Later that year Göttsching was commissioned to record a film soundtrack. The resulting album was released in 1993 as
Le Berceau de Cristal under the Ash Ra Tempel name, despite the fact that none of the other original members of that band feature. Instead, Göttsching was backed by former
Agitation Free guitarist Lutz "Lüül" Ulbrich, who would go on to collaborate with Gottsching as Ashra. The following year Göttsching made his debut as Ashra, releasing
New Age of Earth on
Isadora Records. This would become perhaps Ashra's most popular album. All instruments are played by Göttsching. A second Göttsching-only Ashra album was released in 1977:
Blackouts. In 1979, the third Ashra album was released.
Correlations featured
Lutz Ulbrich on guitar and keyboards as well as ex-
Wallenstein and
Cosmic Couriers drummer
Harald Grosskopf who had played drums on
Ash Ra Tempel's final album. The band released one further album (
Belle Alliance) with this line up. In 1981, they performed in "Musical Express", a program of the Spanish television network
TVE. In this same program they played a jam session together with
Neuronium (Michel Huygen,
Carlos Guirao, Santi Picó, Miguel Guillamat) and Teddy Bautista. In the mid-1980s, the trio recorded
Tropical Heat, although the album would only be released in 1991. In 1990 the duo of Göttsching and Ulbrich released ''Walkin' the Desert''. The band's next album is 1998's
Sauce Hollandaise, a live album released and recorded in the
Netherlands, now out of print. For this album the trio of Göttsching, Grosskopf and Ulbrich were joined by Steve Baltes who would also feature in the
@shra series, the first of which was also released in 1998. This series embraces a more
techno-oriented sound. ,
@shra is the band's last new recording to be released. Göttsching died in December 2022. ==Discography==