7.5.07
NEW RELEASES
H.O.N.D and Detached from all objects
OUT NOW! Axolotl Lullabies, a collection of remixes and compilation tracks by Felix Kubin from the years 1999-2007, including a previously unreleased track Menstruation Glamour. The CD is out on the Canadian label ORAL and will be distributed in Europe via A-Musik and Stora. A vinyl version is planned, as well.
OUT NOW on Gagarin Records, GR 2020! There are grapefruit hearts to be squeezed in the dark, a compilation of wonderful 4-track homerecording pieces by famous German writer Max Goldt. This is something for fans of German tape artists, also known as Kassettentaeter. The tracks date back to the years 1981-83 and they are full of surprises and haunting lyrics in German and English. The music is based on rhythmic minimalism and beautiful metallic noises that Max Goldt created by hammering on prepared quitar and zither.
OUT NOW! The electricity dog musical soundtrack H.O.N.D with music by Felix Kubin and lyrics by Mariola Brillowska on A-Musik. Listen to the wonderful voice of 20-year-old Gloria Brillowska who turns into a grown-up hairbrush. The Cd is already out, the LP version will follow. Includes very colourful booklets and English text translations.
OUT NOW! The new CD and LP Detached from all objects by Pia Burnette and Felix Kubin. Darker and more noisy than their first LP, this is the result of 6 years research on the question how far a song can be stretched until it becomes transparent
Still fresh! The full-length CD Suppe fuer die Nacht by Felix Kubin and Coolhaven with unnerving splinters of destiny on the Dutch Kormplastics label. Melancholic 40s Schlager vs. Psycho Freud Gabba. The 7inch extract THERE IS A GARDEN / WASCHZWANGMAMA is out on A-Musik.
A beautiful compilation called ATOMA EXI MONO with some of the best tracks of Felix Kubin on the Russian label SOLNZE. Several of them haven't been available since ages because they were hidden on old 7inches.
GR 2017 - now also available on CD!
Wir bauen eine Stadt, a composition out of the year 1930 by Paul Hindemith for children orchestra. The amazing electronic re-interpretation of Holger Hiller and Thomas Fehlmann released in 1981 on ATA TAK has now been re-released on Gagarin Records. We are proud like ties, or prunes, whatever...
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:
„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.“
Holger Hiller and Thomas Fehlmann, founding members of the 1980's influential band Palais Schaumburg, re-interpreted the play in 1981. Their 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.
New releases planned by the Archive for Historical Recordings, Pete UM, Echokrank, Vernon and Burns