Obscure and uneven archival recordings from
Gunter Schickert circa 1980 to 1994. On the plus side, it's worth the
price of admission just to hear 'Arabische Nächte', which is Schickert
at his absolute best, with fast paced sound on sound guitar, and molten
psychedelic soloing layered on top. And the Middle Eastern theme gives
off a big whiff of early Agitation Free (and would you believe Michael
Gunther himself was involved on this project?). Also of note are the
'Dig It' segues which propel the album forward in an exciting way. Other
notables are the extended version of 'In der Zeit 1' from Uberfallig,
the haunting Voice of Eye styled studio manipulation of 'Sirenen', and
the muddled psychedelic title track. On the down side is the brooding
electronik 'Töchter der Neere' which isn't Schickert's forte at all.
Also 'Monkeys' sounds like a GAM reject, whereas 'Now' is pretty dull to
be honest.
Manuel Gottsching is credited with remastering. If
only Achim Reichel could have been involved, then we would have had all
the pioneering German sound-on-sound electric guitarists in the same
room!
Ownership: CD: 1995 Musique Intemporelle. This is a very rare CD that was issued by Bernd Kistenmacher's Musique Intemporelle label, and was part of the "Rainbow Collection" that also featured an archival Agitation Free album. One of the series' trademarks was the addition of a "multimedia" track at the beginning of the disc (this is what they mean by CD ROM on the cover - it is a factory pressed CD), which comes across as loud static if you don't remember to start with track 2. There are no liner notes to speak of, so the origin of these songs is hard to determine.
1995; 9/27/15 (new entry)
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