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TIETCHENS, ASMUS - Seuchengebiete

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Die Stadt DS88 Release Year: 2005 Note: re-release of LP from 1985 plus bonus-track "Hydrophonie 4" (11.59). Comes with mini-poster inlay & reproduction of original artwork Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Re-Release der meisterhaften und sehr raren LP von 1985, deren Material ausschliesslich aus den Klängen der Studio-Toilettenspülung zusammengesetzt wurde. Mit 12minütigen Bonustrack aus der gleichen Zeit und Mini-Poster mit Reproduktion der Original-Coverartwork! „7th part in the re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980 - 1991. Another early Tietchens classic, the first where he only used a single sound source as the basis for a complete album. Originally released on A-Mission in 1985 the CD version includes one bonus track. Full colour fold-out booklet featuring the original cover artwork plus liner notes by Tietchens. Edition of 1000 copies. Total playing time: 56:59 min.” [label info] “ASMUS TIETCHENS 'Seuchengebiete' (A-Mission Records PRO 18:4) 1985. Immediately after the completion of 'Hydrophonie 1' (from 'Formen letzter Hausmusik', Die Stadt/DS84) I began to work on similar pieces based on the same working method (see sketch). There was a significant difference to the former piece though. This time no other sound elements but those directly derived from a jet of water were used. This jet of water was simply produced by a tap in the studio toilet. The sounds produced were recorded on three seperate tracks with two mono microphones and one contact microphone, in order to get the optimum basic sound material for my succeeding work in the studio. My main tools for the realization of these pieces were a new mixing desk with parametric equalizing, and a digital reverb machine. As a result of the recently upgraded studio equipment I was able to produce concrete music with more filigree structures. Also the handling of the sounds created by the water presented me with such a variety of possibilities, that I kept working on the series of 'Hydrophonien' well into the 1990's, and after an interruption of 10 years, I started thinking about a new approach to this material again. There were two reasons for offering this album to the english label A-Mission Records. Firstly United Dairies - who released the predecessor 'Formen letzter Hausmusik' - had a policy to only release one album by each artist not connected to their own group project Nurse With Wound. Secondly my decision resulted from a disappointing listening experience. In 1983 A-Mission Records released an album by the justly forgotten group Metgumbnerbone, which produced crude ritual rumblings with human skulls in hell. The liner notes featured the usual mumblings of devasted industrial sites and forbidden cults, in short: An admittedly contemporary expression of Zeitgeist, but also a fairly secondary one. After listening to this album I was convinced that I could deliver a better description of an atmosphere of emptiness and isolation than them, because firstly I'd be doing it without all that childish theatre, and secondly because I'd be able to describe it much better soundwise. To my surprise the owner of the label agreed with me after having listened to a demo copy of 'Seuchengebiete'. The album was actually released after the usual waiting period of one year. I then recieved 25 copies of the album for my personal use and never heard from this label again. I assume they just stopped sometime in the second half of the 1980s. A-Mission Records had a policy to use quotes from the bible (english version) as catalogue numbers. Therefore PRO 18:4 also stands for a verse. Because I never owned a bible myself. nor did I really care to decipher it, and the label itself also remained silent about this, I only found out what it meant lately: THE WORDS OF A MAN'S MOUTH ARE DEEP WATERS, BUT THE FOUNTAIN OF WISDOM IS A BUBBLING BROOK (PRO 18:4). Well... Editorial notes: Because of the big dynamics and the resulting quiet passages in the pieces I decided to get rid of the tape hiss with the help of a recent computer programme. Actually this was an easy decision for me as already 20 yea rs ago I was very unhappy with being confronted with even the slightest bid of tape hiss. 'Hydrophonie 4' was supposed to be part of a follow-up release which only saw the light of day as 'Seuchengebiete 2 (Syrenia) on CD in 1992. 'Hydrophonie 4' didn't make it onto this album as time had passed it by.” [Asmus Tietchens, 2005]