SULA BASSANA – Time Travel – Rare & Obscure Tracks From The Decades (2026, Digital/Bandcamp, Self-Released) 

RELEASE INFO:

Label:Self-Released

Format: Album, Digital/Bandcamp

Release Date: 6 Feb 2026

A Bandcamp Friday (6 February) release by long-time friend Dave Schmidt (aka Sula Bassana) (Glad you’re back, Dave!!!).

“Time Travel – Rare & Obscure Tracks From The Decades” isn’t an album so much as a personal archive cracked open. Released (for now) exclusively on Bandcamp, this Sula Bassana collection moves backwards through time — from a roaring live recording in Hamburg, April 2024, to fog-soaked, cassette-based experiments and DAT-captured rituals from the mid and late ’90s. Rare, unreleased and long-buried tracks surface here in all their unpolished honesty: joke recordings, fever dreams, unfinished ideas, psych jams built from echo guitars, primitive drum machines, toy instruments and found sounds. Entirely written, played, recorded and produced by Dave Schmidt, these pieces weren’t rescued or restored — they simply waited. What emerges is a deeply human psych document: memory, noise, humour and atmosphere tangled together, tracing one mind’s long, unbroken relationship with sound. A must!!!

Yes! Spacehead is back, and I’ll be hoping for a future vinyl release though it would take 3 records to fill 1h 29m 20s of this 10-track album! TimeLord Michalis

Here’s some useful information for each one of the time-travel tracks, enjoy!

SULA BASSANA – Time Travel – Rare & Obscure Tracks From The Decades

1 – Ridin’ (5:49) 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

Band:

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 (5:02) 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.

3 – Arkelanfall (2:38) 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.

4 – Animal Farm (3:19) was recorded in 2008 as a joke, using some animal sounds from a library CD. Previously unreleased.

5 – Was Du Denkst (4:54) was recorded in 2006 (or maybe earlier) and never made it into an album. Previously unreleased.

6 – Soulcake (7:00) 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.

7 – Fiebertraum (6:58) 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.

8 – Paranoid? (12:46) was also recorded in the late 90s and found its place on the Sulatronics CD-R too. You find three more tracks from the Sulatronics CD-R as the bonustracks of the Kosmonauts 2-LP version:

https://sulabassana.bandcamp.com/album/kosmonauts

9 – Suomenlinna (7:40) 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 (33:14) 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 drum machine. Tuned in and fell deep into sound. Recorded “live” at home onto my DAT recorder. Previously unreleased.

Tracklist

Links

Listen / Get it through SULA BASSANA Bandcamp