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| | | crippled intellect productions (usa) #cip 013 cd alu “autismenschen” compact disc - funkturm (4:50)
- halt dich fest (8:42)
- bitte warten sie! (3:29)
- allzeit bereit (3:29)
- big fon (3:44)
- liebe machen (2:21)
- schachcomputer (5:01)
- sie kriegt alles was sie will (7:11)
- der zirkus ist in der stadt (4:28)
- aludome (5:15)
- camarillo boogie (4:28)
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "halt dich fest" |
| ah, good ... i’ve had this one on my list of things to check out for eons, at least since hearing the was soll das? platten reissue of alu’s “ungesunde traumbilder” ...
considerably more “wave” than the band they morphed out of (sand; whose 1974 “golem” lp was reissued by david tibet as “ultrasonic seraphim” a few years back - 2 of the 3 sand members make up alu) - this is one way to move on from krautrock’s excess into the “sterile” environs of the early 80s - via the classic “minimal synth” instrumentation-set; drum-machines, phase-locked / looping synth-lines, scratchy no-wave guitar, & monotone shouting (in german)
cheesy, yes; but that’s kind of the point. if you’re a fan of latter-day cluster, suicide, schnitzler, primitive calculators, etc... i can’t see you not enjoying some aspect of this ... |
| | crippled intellect productions press release... |
| alu: autismenschen cd
c.i.p. is extremely honored to present this release by alu, a german electronic band from the early 1980s. for a loose music analogy, think suicide, esplendor geometrico, or throbbing gristle and you'd be in the right ballpark. i initially contacted the members of alu about reissuing their amazing live lp, "licht." they said they had an unreleased first studio lp they would be more interested in releasing, and how did that sound to me? it sounded like one of the most incredible opportunities i've had presented to me.
in his liner notes to this cd, david tibet -- who was key in reissuing recordings by sand (which featured two members of alu) -- says: "moving savagely away from [sand's] trippy, inner-space explorations, alu inhabited a colder, more paranoiac country than their predecessors. yet [with sand] i hear the beginnings of the alienated schizophrenia that comes so intensely to the fore in the material released by alu during their brief life, as well as on this remarkably unsettling album that was, until now, never released.... alu possessed a sharp, cutting and motorised beat with the guttural sound of those at war with anything around them. the hallucinations of sand had given way to something far colder, far darker. harsh, uncomfortable, arrhythmic within its own metronomic rhythm, loveless yet full of passion, alu were, like sand, unjustly overlooked--almost forgotten. perhaps in these apocalyptic, crepuscular years their time has, at last, come."
if you have ever enjoyed german experimental music from the late 70s to early 80s, this will unquestionably be of interest to you. |
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