S.Y.P.H. - PST LP

With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as “Zurück zum Beton” and “Industriemädchen”, S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the 70s - as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life.

After the first album and several singles (re-issued on Tapete Records in December 2024), the band produced two more albums - Pst and S.Y.P.H. (album 4) - together with CAN's Holger Czukay. Tapete Records is now releasing both albums and a collection of previously unreleased rarities - Punkraut 1978-1981.

Pst
In the mid-seventies, Uwe Jahnke and Harry Rag had probably founded the first CAN fan club in Germany and, among other things, conducted an interview with Holger Czukay for Harry Rag's school newspaper in 1976. Four years later, fandom made way for collaboration when the band asked the legendary CAN multi-instrumentalist whether he’d be willing to produce the next S.Y.P.H. album. To their astonishment, he accepted. Thus it came about that in 1980, S.Y.P.H. was recording with Czukay in the fabled Innerspace Studio in Weilerswist, where the iconic CAN albums had been created years earlier. Czukay also performed on several tracks, for instance horn, percussion, bass and harmonica on ‘Do the Fleischwurst’. These sessions resulted in the two albums Pst and the untitled 4th album.