Asmus Tietchens – Seuchengebiete (Rare LP, A-Mission 19

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Asmus Tietchens – Seuchengebiete (Rare LP, A-Mission 1985) $70

This LP is looking pretty used , but not that bad – it’s was used when I bought it locally and the price sticker is still on the cover and the LP label - it has been played by others unknown to me - it has normal usage and storage wear, corners are only minimaly soft with minimal creases, slight ring scuffing on the black portions front – edges are a tad rugged in a few places – the back has a ring trace from a little grime – no scuffing – The inner record sleeve is the original paper type - The album has been stored and will ship in a 4 mil polyethylene record jacket sleeve - Overall this is not a bad looking LP and the vinyl looks to be clean, I have not played this in years. It has been stored indoors in a pet and smoke free home.

Label:               A-Mission Records

Catalog#:          PRO 18:4

Format:            Vinyl, LP

Country:           UK

Released:          1985

Genre:              Electronic

Style:                Experimental, Ambient

Notes:              Limited edition of 500 copies.

Tracklisting:

A                     Hydrophonie 2 (24:21)

B                      Hydrophonie 5 (20:39)

Alternatively hallowed and labeled as a composer of "anti-social" music (the latter opinion reinforced by philosopher E.M.Cioran's influence on his views), Asmus Tietchens is an admirably coherent man with a well-demonstrated attitude. The roots of his extremely personal methodologies have already been revealed by the first chapters in this great reissue program by Die Stadt; with Seuchengebiete, we enter one of the most innovative periods in the Hamburger's creative sound research, namely the beginning of his work with water and microphones to record his well-known "Hydrophonies", first examples of Tietchens' electroacoustic music based on a single source. As clearly shown by a rough drawing on the CD booklet, two mikes were placed in proximity of dropping water in a basin, with a third contact mike on the drainpipe; after capturing the raw material, Tietchens modified its transparency in pretty radical fashion, filtering and mixing the whole to remodel frequencies, making the water shine with harmonics and flanging waves.

This uncomfortable neon light of sharp textural processing alternates with more substantial emissions evoking marine depths but also industrial pneumatic mechanisms - just listen to "Hydrophonie 4", an essential track originally not on the LP. Fluid rustling and mercurial pollutions surround us throughout this essential album in an ever-growing, anguishing lyricism, just like if we were left watching the inevitable destruction of elemental simplicity in favour of an evolution that will find us psychologically unprepared. Massimo Ricci

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