Zeuhl 5

That is a BEAUTIFUL cover!

I don't remember if you posted thoes links here before, Yuko (probably yes), but here are some sites which may be of interest to Zeuhlians:

listennow801 wrote: the Komintern is OP. I have a rip and will upload the files if anyone is interested [I highly recommend it!]. just PM me. cleo

Expect some serious PMage from Tokyo C! This is seriously hard to get hold of an' will probably never see a cd release. My record players out of action as well! Oliverstoned only went an' broke it with his bong

Rocktopus wrote: Ha-ha. If you insist, we'll do it that way.

I insist Roxy! Will even pay for the air fare. Business class naturally

eugene wrote: Only yesterday I got to know this:   [IMG">style="BORDER-RIGHT: #aaaaaa 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #aaaaaa 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #aaaaaa 1px solid; WIDTH: 210px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #aaaaaa 1px solid; HEIGHT: 204px" height=100 src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1218/cover_18551615102005.jpg" width=100>   Wow!!! It's bloody great! Love at first listen.   Thanks Assaf for introducing it to me.

Yes! Yes Yes Yes!!! [This disc is my avatar as you can see]. one of my absolute greatest musical loves! You MUST hear their 2nd, aka 'ni' also. it was just re-released by Skingraft [one can get the cd for 12 bucks w/ free shipping on the sg site if anyone's interested].

[ah, the bliss of musical revelation...pure ecstacy...]


    

Have both those releases, and yes, I am as excited about this as you are, Yuko.

Rocktopus wrote: I have their second album. Its completely avantgarde

Have to hear this! And another great sleeve! (great sleeve=halfway there to greatness) Will send cd-r and postage costs. Maybe

This work is the result of the collaboration among three musicians whose training has gone through different cultural and musical experiences. Marco di Castri and Enrico Grosso come from jazz while Fiorenzo Bonansone comes from contemporary classical music. This situation of apparent dishomogeneity had a positive role to get over some prejudices about some aspects of contemporary musical research as a whole. This can be easily noticed by listening to the complexity and and heterogeneity of both the material which has been used, and the combinatory solution which have resulted. We say material to underline the importance as raw material of not just the traditional elements and building patterns of the musical architecture and the most recent finds of electronic and musique concrete researches, but also the final results of a previous composing activity. The reminescence of traditional music at the beginnng of the second side [La bergera\ and the symphonic bursts flashing through the uproar of Con più frequenza are exactly pre-formed material whose utilisation is allowed when the usual relations among pure sounds (notes) open the way to a wider game of relations among culturally and temporarily defined wholes, that is what we could paradoxically call music of musics.

sleeve notes of "Materiali per tre esecutori e nastro magnetico"

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Yukorin wrote: avestin wrote: Heard about Komintern but not them. Should I add this to my current French/Japanese RIO/Avant/Zeuhl purchases? Is this on CD as well? Apparently there is no cd reissue. Only a vinyl reissue on the excellent Cryonic label which is the copy I have. Also it's a ridiculously intense listen. Music Hall on acid perhaps? KOMINTERN En mai 1970 Francis Lemonnier et Serge Catalano quittent Red Noise pour fonder Komintern. Avec un nom pareil, ce groupe ne pouvait qu'ךtre gauchiste rיvolutionnaire. Son unique album, Le Bal du rat mort, est sorti en 1971, mais Komintern a יtי actif jusqu'en 1975...... http://neospheres.free.fr/rockfr/komintern.htm

    Thanks for the links.   I have looked a bit around, but I think I moght have luck with Aquarius store with those releases.     " In May 1970, Francis Lemonnier and Serge Catalano leave Red Noise to found Komintern. With such a name, this band could only be a revolutionist leftist one. Their only album, Le Bal Du Rat Mort (the ball (as in an event) of the dead rat), was released in 1971, but Komintern was active until 1975.          

avestin wrote: Heard about Komintern but not them. Should I add this to my current French/Japanese RIO/Avant/Zeuhl purchases? Is this on CD as well?

Apparently there is no cd reissue. Only a vinyl reissue on the excellent Cryonic label which is the copy I have. Also it's a ridiculously intense listen. Music Hall on acid perhaps?

KOMINTERN

En mai 1970 Francis Lemonnier et Serge Catalano quittent Red Noise pour fonder Komintern. Avec un nom pareil, ce groupe ne pouvait qu'être gauchiste révolutionnaire. Son unique album, Le Bal du rat mort, est sorti en 1971, mais Komintern a été actif jusqu'en 1975...... http://neospheres.free.fr/rockfr/komintern.htm