They wanted to make music together, so they rented an apartment together. The initiative came from Peter Bursch and Willi Kismer, and they called themselves Bröselmaschine, a humorous name for a cannabis grinder. All this happened in Duisburg in 1969. The line-up included singers and guitarists Peter Bursch and Willi Kismer, singer and flautist Jenni Schucker, Lutz Ringer on bass and percussionist Mike Hellbach. During countless rehearsals and sessions, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser took notice of them and offered them a record deal. In August 1971, the quintet recorded their first and only album at Studio Dierks in Stommeln, produced by Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser and with Dieter Dierks as sound engineer. They played a varied, melancholic, psychedelic folk rock that combined subtle Indian and Middle Eastern influences (sitar, tabla, flute), Irish and Scottish folk traditions (mandolin, polyphonic singing in English) and intercultural world music. This was enriched by emerging progressive elements (Mellotron) and rocking electric guitar parts.

The acoustic album was released in 1971 on Kaiser's legendary Pilz label in an imaginatively designed gatefold cover. Unfortunately, the response fell short of expectations, and the band split up in 1973. Like almost all Pilz releases, this gem of the German music scene of that era is virtually impossible to find as an original first pressing.