If you told me a Swiss basement from 1985 still echoes with live psychedelic riffs recorded straight to reel-to-reel tape, I’d say: point me there immediately.
Wild Water—formed in 1990 by school friends Christian Güller and Patrick Hennig in Oberkulm, Switzerland—is the kind of band that never needed the world’s attention. They jammed in cellars, cut five double LPs between ’95 and ’99 (pressed only two copies each!), and just wanted to see their vinyl on the shelf next to Free and Ten Years After.
Fast forward to a ripple in the YouTube world, and interest resurged. Mess Of Rock dropped in 2022 as a private press, but Restrict Life is their first proper label-backed release via Clostridium Records.
It’s not a throwback, it’s a wormhole. The entire album was recorded live on an 8-track reel tape in their practice room, raw and analog, with maybe a second guitar layered here and there like a spectral twin.
This isn’t retro rock cosplay. This is the fossil record of a band that never stopped living it, breathing it, being it. Restrict Life is rough, ragged, and real psychedelic rock, and it’s finally yours to spin.
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