Label: Creel Pone

コンポーザーMartin Almstedt、ソプラノ歌手Dietburg Spohr、パーカッショニストDietmar Traeger、知られざるドイツの強者達によるコラボレーション録音の、ほぼ全曲をカバーしたCreel Poneによる極上編集版。共に1978年リリースの2枚のLP [Fruhleben]、[Sie Spielen Damit...]を纏めたもので、音声をテープ加工した厳つい漆黒音響を放射、もはや純粋にノイズ及び振り切れたエレクトロニクス作品として楽しめる最高にクールな全曲。





March 2024; covering essentially the entire recorded output of German composer Martin Almstedt's collaborations with vocalist Dietburg Spohr & percussionist Dietmar Traeger, this double-disc set centers around the two LPs issued by Kassel-based engineer Rüdiger Ebel's Ebel Tonstudiotechnik under the Aktionsring Alternativer Musikkultur banner, "Frühleben" ("Early Life", ETST 011, 1978) & "Sie Spielen Damit, Kein Spiel Zu Spielen / Du Bist Mein Spiegel ("They Play With Not Playing A Game / You Are My Mirror", ETST 012, also 1978) with the addition of the Expanded Media Editions issue of Almstedt's "MSG-Kompositionen" (E.M.E. #D-34).

"Frühleben" really caught me by surprise; I'd come across the LP in the stacks in Germany here & there over the years (certainly not recently!) & had mentally written it off as a Stockhausen-nude-on-the-beach embrace of Haight Ashbury / May '68 ideals (conflating "Frühleben" w/ "Freie Liebe", natch) but it turns out to be an epic album-length "Audiovisuelles Werk für Live-Part (Sopran, Bariton, Klavier, Schlagzeug, Kontrabaß), 4-Kanal Tonband und Ballett" (or, "Audiovisual Work for Live Part (soprano, baritone, piano, drums, double bass), 4-Channel Tape and Ballet") in which the Electronic / Tape component absolutely clobbers the live musicians, slowly taking over the entire audible spectrum until the musicians are forced to play/sing at the absolute limits of their dynamic range. I can hear traces of the exact same apex of voice/tape miasma as in Dieter Kaufmann & Gunda König's masterful "Bildnis Einer Frau Im Spiegel" (see [CP 147 CD]) and the embrace of pure noise and transgressive electronics certainly rivals Max E. Keller & Martin Fischer's contemporaneous "SMI, Sozialistische Musiker Initiative" LP (see [CP 059 CD]) alongside which the piece sits comfortably.

The remainder of the set is taken up by Spohr & Almstedt's collaborative "Sie Spielen Damit" (largely dealing in a multitracked, operatic sprechstimme w/ occasional flourishes of electronic post-production) & Almstedt & Traeger's "MSG-Kompositionen" (which starts w/ a Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley -esque free jazz piece that ends in a 10-minute 1k tone [?!] before changing gears into an awesome held-chord church organ & electronics drone that recalls Folke Rabe's "Was" or the more atonal end of Charlemagne Palestine's work in this area).

Comes with a six-panel "Glossy" booklet covering all of the relevant information & detail found across all three records, plus a separate "Gatefold" insert w/ the detail from the inner panels of said, with the two discs tucked inside. A real highlight in the "Phase Five [Brooklyn]" leg of Creel Pone, just shy of the series' 19th anniversary!