Catherine Christer Hennix - The Electric Harpsichord
A memorial tribute edition to Sri Faquir Pandit Pran Nath (1918-1996)
Obscure masterpiece of the days of the early American minimalism. Recorded live in 1976, an improvisation performed on Just Intonation tuned keyboards put through time lag accumulators similar to those used by Terry Riley.
Includes a booklet with the same title with texts by Christine Christer Hennix, La Monte Young and Henry Flynt.
The booklet contains:
I. Dedication
II. La Monte Young: Two Poems
III. Catherine Christer Hennix: []-kappa
IV. Henry Flynt: The Electric Harpsichord (essay)
Catherine Christer Hennix
Recorded live at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden on march 23, 1976, 4:10:00 - 4:35:24 PM.
Die Schachtel
2010
Peter Hennix (recorder)
<a href="https://www.discogs.com/Catherine-Christer-Hennix-The-Electric-Harpsichord/release/2374834">https://www.discogs.com/Catherine-Christer-Hennix-The-Electric-Harpsichord/release/2374834</a>
25:24 minutes
Electronic, minimalistic/experimental
WCCD0007
Demokratie
Synth-Pop, Germany, late 1980s, German New Wave
Marvellous German synth-pop musician, equipped with the choicest humour and the gift of creating wonderful melodies. Album from 1988.
Tracklist
1 Immer Nur Warten 2:10
2 Sei Steif! 2:51
3 Demokratie 4:04
4 Sucht Euer Tat 2:59
5 Taxi Nach Shibuya 3:19
6 Blume '86 2:36
7 Tradition 1:51
8 Frauenfüsse 3:05
9 Stehst Du An Der Himmelspforte 3:44
10 Na, Du Alte Kuh 2:47
11 Ein Liebesraum 2:16
12 Ein Fall Für Dr. D 2:52
13 Immer Noch Warten 2:50
14 Willi Im Busch 2:30
15 Ein Tropfen Geht An Land 1:05
Andreas Dorau und Die Bruderschaft Der Kleinen Sorgen
Two of Andre Dorau's albums:
- Die Doraus Und Die Marinas Geben Offenherzige Antworten Auf Brennende Fragen (1983)
- Demokratie (1988)
Ata-Tak
2012
Frank Fenstermacher (production and back photograph), Kurt Dahlke (technical and mix), Thomas Elsner (cover design), Kristen Wagner (cover photograph),
42 minutes total duration
German
Electronic, Synth-pop
WCLP0003
Germany
Faust
Electronic, Krautrock, Experimental
In 1971 there was no Rock 'n' Roll as out-there as this. During the sixties Frank Zappa, Beefheart, Red Krayola and others were transporting Rock into wierder territory; Faust took inspiration from these artists, but were far more radical. "Why Don't You Eat Carrots" takes clear influence from Zappa's "Lumpy Gravy"; the noise collages, the surreal, echo-drenched dialogue, the warped sense of wit, yet Faust achieve a level of sheer mindfuckery that "Lumpy Gravy" never did. "Meadow Meal" is equally amazing, an ethereal Psych Folk jam featuring searing guitar workouts and mournful church organ, opening with a dense soundscape of rattling percussion and electronic effects.
Unfortunately, after a truly astonishing first half, Faust fumble the ball on side two. "Miss Fortune" doesn't really seem to go anywhere- the first five minutes or so consist of tiresome wah-wah wankery, and the piece fails to improve until it is nearing the end, when ghoulish goblin voices leap out at the listener, and we are treated with something that resembles a noise-rock rendition of "Louie Louie". Though not without it's moments, it's hard to deny that "Miss Fortune" lets the whole album down. Still, the fantastic first side makes this essential Krautrock!
Péron said that Faust "had the urge of saying something completely different", and if you want to hear something completely different, I urge you to give this album a whirl!
/blurb from horsemouth on diskcogs\
Recorded live at Wumme, September 21st 1971
Side A:
Why Don't You Eat Carrots
Meadow Meal
Side B:
Miss Fortune
Faust
This is a repress of the 1971 Faust Album
Lilith Recordings
2007
Werner Diermaier, Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Herve Peron, Rudolf Sosna, Gunther Wusthoff, Kurt Graupner, Andy Hertel, Uwe Nettelbeck
<a href="https://www.discogs.com/Faust-Faust/release/1193538">diskcogs</a><br /><br /><a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/faust/faust/">ratemusic . com</a>
Russia / English
Krautrock, music, um drums, 1970s, experimental rock
WCLP0006
Russia
Oben im Eck
Electronic experimental, psy-pop
On his second solo effort here, one time Palais Schaumburg member and overarching Neue Deutsche Welle figurehead Hiller (two of whose singles have been featured elsewhere on MS) has excised much of the rock element that underpinned his first full length outing Ein Bündel Fäulnis in der Grube. What we have here in lieu of that here is a queer mix of quasi-symphonic and sampler centric bombast and art pop fracture, portioned out with lots of gaps of space in the mix and mixed up with bouts of mischievous chamber R.I.O. of the ZNR, Comelade or Look De Bouk school, occasionally even migrating into Danny Elfman Pee Wee's Big Adventure territory.<br /><br /><a href="http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.nl/2011/02/holger-hiller-oben-im-eck-lp-1986.html">/blurb from here\</a>
Track list
Side 1:
We Don't Write Anything on Paper Or So (2:56)
Tiny Little Cloud (3:21)
Whippets (3:27)
Waltz (4:16)
Oben Im Eck (2:37)
Side 2:
Warm Glass (3:58)
Die Blätter, Die Blätter... (3:25)
Sirtaki (3:15)
48 (Achtundvierzig) Kissen (3:18)
Oben Im Eck [Version] (2:41)
Holger Hiller
Mute – STUMM 38
1986
Muller
<a href="https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjV1rPcpPzVAhWOYlAKHSM5B8QQyCkIJjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxF3rQ_1KTOw&usg=AFQjCNE_k4VdM_p-Mk9GVPCDcs1PlK4Wew">youtube full album</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.musicmeter.nl/album/113811">music meter</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2302751/">documentary on Hiller</a>
33:14 minutes duration
English / German
Electronic, experimental, art-fracture pop
WCLP0008
UK
Silver Apples of the Moon : for electronic music syntheizer
Modern Classic, Experimental
Very influential and popular electronic music piece from 1967 by American composer who co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center. <br /><br />Within the weightless fissures of silence, all has now become silvery and glistens -- jiggling quietly like splitting pools of quicksilver in spoons’ curving beaming under moonlight. The becalmed come down is simmering and soothing and twinkling in the darkness like distant supernovas transmitting their final moments light years after the fact before folding quietly back into the void. But it gently takes its time before sliding off into silence as signals still rise to the surface of the now deepening calm that has been threatening to envelop it all along. And yet, as the twittering of cosmic crickets diminishes, it gives rise to a signal of rare contentment within that huge, sightless universe -- at once unfixed and ultimately, unmoving in eternal silence. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/morton-subotnick-silver-apples-of-the-moon">/blurb from here\</a>
Tracklist :
Side A - Part 1 (16:30')
Side B - Part 2 (15:00')
Morton Subotnick
Morton Subotnick - 1967 original recording
Karlrecords – KR014
2014
<a href="https://www.discogs.com/Morton-Subotnick-Silver-Apples-Of-The-Moon/release/5461890">diskcogs</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjOienvqvzVAhULLFAKHV8cCZUQtwIIKjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEelvKqhu1M4&usg=AFQjCNGG5vyR-fRo3AN8IaWEUGHp4yoH-g">youtube</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wergo.de">wergo</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.karlrecords.net">karlrecords</a>
31:30' minutes duration
English / N/A
Electronic, Experimental
WCLP0009
Germany
Collie / St Polaroid
Charming casio-pop song by Rotterdam entertainer-in-the-margins. A great LP for a listen, and maybe even get yourself a copy eh ? ;)
Tracklist:
Side A:
Collie - 2:55'
Side B:
Matthew Webb - 3:01'
Niek Hilkmann, Saint Polaroid
YCR – YCR05
2013
<br /><br /><a href="http://niekhilkmann.nl/">niek hilkmann </a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwioqamqqfzVAhUPPVAKHU8aDkMQtwIILDAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2VLQ_NgRh1E&usg=AFQjCNFDL2w2KEtyczyltsZa-NuoYu2dFA">matthew webb</a>
6' minutes duration
Dutch
Electronic, Indie Pop, Experimental
WCLP0010
Netherlands
Music of Group Ongaku
Electronic, experimental Jazz
"Group ONGAKU, founded mainly by students at Tokyo National University of Fine Art & Music, was the 1st collective musical improvisation group. The group began their activities in 1958, & from the naming of the group in 1960 onward continued until somewhere around 1962. They attempted to create acoustics corresponding to actual time & space by means of collective improvisation. Although methodically different, the music that they pursued incidentally shared common directions with contemporaries such as John Cage & other involved in the avant-garde artist collective of Fluxus." - Takako Okamoto, taken from original liner notes. "Three wild & woolly scrambling tracks that melt nodes. Dished are dropped, vacuum cleaners get fried, saxes, organs & cellos howl, Group Ongaku were doing it all when the only other cosmic acolyte on the scene was Alan Watts. And these recordings-laid down a couple of years AHEAD of Big Als acid jabber- make This Is It sound like the lysergic soundtrack to Hello Dolly! by comparison. Concurrently, these primal articulations bear the distinction of sounding like the COMPLETE Nurse With Wound List playing at once.. And when you realize that said posse includes Airway, Cromagnon, Don Bradshaw Leather & Throbbing Gristle among its formidable ranks, then one must understand that what is passing between their ears is an aural Excalibur of avant/experimental freakdom that almost no one knew existed. A staggering & crucial lost piece to the ever burgeoning puzzle of the weird." - Phinneas Barbital, author, Cracks Inside Planet Brain (forthcoming, 2011). "Those familiar w/Julian Copes seminal Japrocksampler will recognize the name Group Ongaku as the cornerstone of the 32 page entry, "Experimental Japan. Simply put, this collective was edenic as the foundation of fusing avant classical input with organic,improvisational output, thus forging a singular Minimalist sound on par w/similar, radical outre composition that was taking place in the West at the same time (Cage & Stockhausens work in particular). That members of Group Ongaku would later be instrumental in founding Japans Fluxus movement as well as form the legendary Taj Mahal Travellers seems almost elementary.And while to some these recording might sound archaic, their importance can never be understated or denied. Recorded in 1960 & 61 respectively, these 3 tracks were original 1st released on CD in a small edition in 1996. Long thought to be impossible to replicate onto vinyl due to time constraints (side 1 is practically 35 minutes in length), new technology in Japanese audio restoration has made it possible for Music Of Group Ongaku to finally see a proper LP release. And the sound is most exhilarating. Personnel is as follows; Takehisa Kosugi (violin, sax, tape), Chieko Shiomi (piano), Mikio Tojima (cello), Yasunao Tone (sax, tape), Genichi Tsuge (guitar), Shukou Mizuno (cello, drums tape). Japanese import, includes English language insert, edition of 300." - SEER Sound Archive. We were thoroughly stunned hearing this after nabbing a few of the CDs way back when - ahead of its time to say the least. Very highly recommended!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.soundohm.com/product/music-of-group-ongaku/pid/16484/">/blurb from here\</a>
Tracklist:
Side A:
- Automatism, 1960, 26:20' minutes
- Object, 1960, 7:34' minutes
Side B:
- Metaplasm 9-15, 1961
- part one : 14:16'
- part two: 11:26'
Ongaku Group
Originally recorded on May 8th 1960 and September 15th 1961.
Seer Sound Archive
2011
Takehisa Kosugi, Chieko Shiomi, Yumiko Tanno, Mikio Tojima, Yasanao Tone, Shukou Mizuno, Geniche Tsuge
<a href="https://www.discogs.com/Group-Ongaku-Music-Of-Group-Ongaku/release/2665420">diskcogs</a><br /><br /><a href="http://bleakbliss.blogspot.nl/2016/06/group-ongaku-music-of-group-ongaku.html">bleak bliss</a>
59:35' minutes total duration
Japanese
Electronic, Jazz, Experimental
WCLP0011
Japan
Psycho motorik
convicted child molester, actionism, experimental music
NO LABEL: otto muehl is an austrian convicted child molester, who is best known as one of the co-founders as well as the most exciting participant of viennese actionism. he's the sort of guy who might fuck a swan, and then scream a little poem about it. in the sixties his aim was 'to overcome painting on canvas through staging the process of its destruction'. he made rhizomatic structures with scrap iron ("gerümpelplastiken"), but soon proceeded to the "aktion" in the vein of the new york happenings. gradually, muehl began to distance himself from "aktion". he regarded the "happening as a bourgeois artform, mere art". <br /><br />This is an exact reproduction of his 1971 "psycho motorik" lp, which documents that very departure.<br /><br /><a href="http://hothoh.blogspot.nl/2010/06/otto-muehl-psycho-motorik-1971.html">/blurb\</a>
Otto Muehl, Herbert Stampfl, Romilla Doll
Not On Label – SP-2
1971
<a href="https://www.discogs.com/Otto-Muehl-Psycho-Motorik/release/754971">diskcogs</a>
fuckn who cares this asshole fucked a child/s ffs
Electronic, Experimental, Spoken word, dodgy male musician
WCLP0012
Austria
Wir bauen eine Stadt
Punk, New Wave, new take on modern classics
<br /> In 1930 the German composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) wrote a series of small pieces for school orchestras. It was described as a “play for children” depicting the construction and survey of a modern city. The unusual thing about it is the age of its inhabitants:<br />“In our city the grown ups have no say (…) Our mayor is seven years old, and all uncles and aunties are children. Even the traffic warden is a child.” We Build A Town comes across as strange in more than one way. Firstly, as a bizarre alternative blueprint to an eldery society. Secondly, as a combination of constructivist music and antiquated-modernist lyrics. These lyrics reflect traits of naïve belief in progress and open repression.<br /><br />The complexity of the upcoming technical age is disguised as being simple, and all aspects of modern city life take on a model-like character. As a result, a strangely “adult“ intelligence seems to speak through the organisation of this children's world. Topics covered are traffic, education, hygiene, consumer protection and crime. The author of the text, Robert Seitz (1891-1938), develops a penchant for listing occupational groups (“I am the train conductor”), whose members have to deal constantly with complaints from clients (“There are maggots in this”). At the end of the play, thieves who steal watches, potatoes, cars and young dogs are arrested.<br /><br />Half a century after the original was created, two German artists with a punk and new wave background - Holger Hiller and Thomas Fehlmann - reinterpret the play and release it in 1981 as a cassette tape on Ata Tak, a label based in the German city of Düsseldorf. The classic orchestration of the original is replaced by synthesizer and manipulated voices. Apart from that, the original score is strictly adhered to. The use of electronic instruments and voice effects not only gives new life to the futuristic character of the pieces, but also subtly hints to its origins in the world of adults.<br /><br />Like the flame of a burning fuse leading to a bundle of explosives, the tape wanders through the children's bodies and back into the heads of the grown-ups.<br /><br /><div></div>
<div>Tracklist</div>
<div></div>
<div>1 Wir bauen eine Stadt</div>
<div>2 Gibst Du mir Steine, geb ich Der Sand</div>
<div>3 Baumusik</div>
<div>4 Erst kommt der Bäcker</div>
<div>5 Mit dem Autobus</div>
<div>6 Besuchermusik</div>
<div>7 Ich bin ein Schnaffer</div>
<div>8 Guten Tag, Frau Bergmann</div>
<div>9 Jetzt ist's Nacht, alles schläft</div>
<div>10 Bei uns haben die Erwachsenen nichts zu sagen</div>
<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://gagarinrecords.com/?str=releases&id=333">/blurb from here\</a>
Paul Hindemith, Holger Hiller, Thomas Fehlmann
The composistions of Paul Hindermith from 1930
Gagarin Records – gr-2017
2006
Wiener Kinderoper, Ian Strasfogel, Georges Sanev
<a href="https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiw5-zttPzVAhUSb1AKHYP1DZYQyCkIJjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1GKMY8s_RKM&usg=AFQjCNEPC1Qr0tsaKv-NubWIgQrMO9R_XA">youtube</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.universaledition.com/composers-and-works/Luciano-Berio/Wir-bauen-eine-Stadt/composer/54/work/8459">Universal Edition</a><br /><br /><a href="http://gagarinrecords.com/?">Gagarin Records</a>
German, Japanese and English
Electronic, New Wave, Experimental
WCLP0013
Germany
Rotterdam Collection
Electronic, Rock, Pop, Experimental
NL
<a href="https://www.discogs.com/Various-Rotterdam-Collection-Various-Bands-From-Rotterdam/release/1295978">https://www.discogs.com/Various-Rotterdam-Collection-Various-Bands-From-Rotterdam/release/1295978</a>
Hard-to-find compilation of punk and new wave from the 1980s in Rotterdam.
Electronic, Rock, Pop, Experimental
Bodysnatchers, Tandstickorshicks, Foreign Bodies, Revo, Bunker, oomis Gang, M Sound, Stealer, Chatterbox, Pierre, Rondos, Alibi Ike, Black Slack, Steve
Backstreet Backlash Records – BBR 001
1980
WCLP0020