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Artist: | Various Artists |
Title: | Various Artists Gespensterland VINYL LP |
Released: | 18/08/2023 |
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Format: | VINYL LP |
Country | EU/US |
Barcode: | 4015698847772 |
Catalogue number: | BB436LP |
Store location: | pre-order |
SKU: | WLF12253 |
Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany's sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the copse of the ubiquitous "Neo-Kraut", "Diskurs-Pop" and the like. We're talking about a small underground network of artists and projects with poetic, mysterious names such as Brannten Schnure, Baldruin, Kirschstein, Freundliche Kreisel and Balint Brosel. Operating in the margins and intersections of folklore, experimental electronics, dreams and nightmares, the "Gespensterland" LP archives and compiles their magic works for the very first time and already today it stands as a contemporary testament with an auratic presence comparable to that of Pordenone's "Great Complotto". "Deutschland - Gespensterland": they're lurking in each and every crack of a brittle reality, amongst the concrete of apartment blocks and motorway bridges, twixt and tween the shopping mall and the leisure park, they're floating along gap sites and post-war facades, apricating in the ludicrous snobbery of Germany's suburbia, whispering from behind crammed sheds in a labyrinth of allotments. Gossamer ghosts spun from daily rituals, spectres of a mundane here and now, that suffuse the land with an invisible veiling. Hardly ever have their frequencies been transmitted as unadulterated as on this record. Much like the fever dream imagery of gothic novels and early horror flicks has equipped our senses with a new perception of reality itself, Gespensterland's surreal songs and oblique sound textures yield an array of microscopic reflections and deeper insights into the psychogeography of the land. Raised in Lower Franconia, both Baldruin and Brannten Schnure already have a considerable discography under their belt. A string of vinyl and cassette releases issued in lovingly designed small runs contributed to their underground fame, securing them a distinguished but growing cult following, especially abroad. Due to their rather brief or latent existence, the legacy of Balint Brosel and Kirschstein, hailing from the Ruhr area, however is of a more obscure nature. Hence, it's all the more important that their fascinating and idiosyncratic skein of ghost musick is being documented here as well, emerging like a seldom ore that slumbered too long inside the earth, having accumulated the collective dreams of generations of necromancers. Ghosts stories, both uncanny and hilarious, are likewise the main ingredient of Freundliche Kreisel's songs, a joint project of Brannten Schnure and Baldruin, and as with all material on this record these tracks have been unreleased to date. For as much as these bands differ in their respective sonic approach, "Gespensterland" can still be considered as a cipher for a shared cosmos and a mutually found aesthetic language. It is always a similar sentiment of a slightly disconnected, shifted and delayed reality that manifests itself in Brannten Schnure's wistful and whimsical ambient-folk loops, the evocative and rhythmic poltergeist interludes of Baldruin, the sweet and naive C86-jangle of Balint Brosel, Kirschstein's rhenish mutant-NDW and post-kraut-romanticism and the electro-acoustic seances of Freundliche Kreisel. Think of it as a rampant yearning, a manic laughter, but mostly as a feeling of some somnambulistic thirst for adventure and journeys into the unknown, a feeling that is grounded deep inside the heart of the continent. We imagine, this is the music of a few like-minded recluses, sitting alone at night in their chambers, immersing themselves in the darkest and innermost Tibet of their own work. It's not too far-fetched either to read "Gespensterland" as a contribution to a specifically German response to Mark Fisher's hauntologic theories. In every track, the fancy of an abandoned future uncoils a narrative thread that has long been discontinued, a dream vision that remained unredeemed forever, now haunting the dull grey corridors of the post-historic presence. These songs glimmer and shine with moods and stories that draw their tension from the same force fields that once gave rise to Alfred Kubin's demonic visions, Hans Henny Jahnn's nightmarish "Night of Lead" or the bizarre adventures of Baron Muenchhausen. And yet, it is not the spectres of the past that are being summoned or dealt with here, but instead the quotidian, perpetually recurring disintegration of reality that lies within the close encounter with one's own unfamiliarity: "is this my hand, or is it someone else's?". Tracklisting 01. Freundliche Kreisel - Gespensterland 02. Kirschstein - Komet uber Sch(r)attenberg 03. Baldruin - Reich der Illusionen 04. Kirschstein - Ach, Du grobe Nachtmusik 05. Freundliche Kreisel - Abbild 06. Baldruin - Elektrische Krauter 07. Kirschstein - Futura Narkotica 08. Brannten Schnure - Ich versaum' doch ni
1 | Freundliche Kreisel - Gespensterland |
2 | Kirschstein - Komet über Sch(r)attenberg |
3 | Baldruin - Reich der Illusionen |
4 | Kirschstein - Ach, Du große Nachtmusik |
5 | Freundliche Kreisel - Abbild |
6 | Baldruin - Elektrische Kräuter |
7 | Kirschstein - Futura Narkotica |
8 | Brannten Schnüre - Ich versäum' doch nichts |
9 | Kirschstein - Mouches Volantes oder die tanzenden Mücke |
10 | Kirschstein - Gold der Liebe |
11 | Brannten Schnüre - Supermarkt |
12 | Freundliche Kreisel - Spannung |
13 | Baldruin - In heimlichen Winkeln |
14 | Balint Brösel & Brannten Schnüre - Disco |
15 | Freundliche Kreisel - Entwirklichung |
format | vinyl |
artist | Various Artists |
Year of Issue | 2023 |
Forthcoming | yes |
Recently In Stock | No |
Forthcoming | No |
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