The first and only album, A Meditation Mass, by the band Yatha Sidhra, founded in 1973 in Freiburg (Breisgau) by brothers Rolf (synth, fl, vib, el-p, g, voc) and Klaus Fichter (dr, perc), certainly lives up to its name. It's a sonic journey into the inner worlds of meditation through hypnotic and dreamy space music influenced by rock, Far Eastern folk and jazz. Together with Matthias Nicolai (b, g) and Peter Elbracht (fl), they recorded their debut album in 1974 at Windrose Studios in Hamburg, with the collaboration of such illustrious names as Dieter Dierks as sound engineer and Achim Reichel as producer, who also wrote the liner notes. Released in 1974 by Brain, the progressive sub-label of Hamburg's Metronome, in a extraordinary gatefold cover with the band's name die-cut, revealing an image of the wheel of life, a symbol of Buddhist meditation, behind it.

These completely detached and spacey soundscapes certainly invited meditation, but apparently not purchases, as the LP remained a slow seller, even though it was repressed a year later. Nevertheless, the band broke up in 1976. Today a milestone of cosmic rock and one of the most sought-after albums on the Brain label, it is considered a cult Krautrock record, especially abroad.