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Probably no other musician in Germany holds the flag of the psychedelic higher than Christian "Doktor" Koch, the thought leader of the band Vibravoid founded in the late eighties. In music and lifestyle he orients himself on the forefathers of the movement and acts as an ambassador of an idea that is no longer present in the general public. The man from Düsseldorf himself did not experience the time and its vibrations, and yet he internalized them.

eclipsed: What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about 1967?

Doctor: What we have lost. Look at the last hundred years: Between 1917 and 1967, much more developed socially than from 1967 until today. Nothing new came in '67. Everything was just further commercialized. There were computers and radios back then, but not so many. People didn't have smartphones to say anything about it.

eclipsed: What about the music?

eclipsed: Alex, on the photos on your website you still look quite young. How old are you? How long have you been together?

Alex Beyer: Hans and I are 28 and have known each other almost as long. We grew up together and have been making music together since I can remember. In the province of Mecklenburg there was also a lot of time for this. I started playing guitar at the age of five. We did the first sessions at ten or eleven and the real first constant band came at 14. We kept them up with breaks until 2012. That was more in the direction of grunge/alternative. After the dissolution I changed to the drums and got to know Clemens, who had his 30th birthday last week, in Leipzig. I joined his former band as a drummer, but I have played in sessions and jams for quite some time and a short time later after a change of line-up - Hans replaced the old bass player - Kalamahara developed.

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