Seine Trance-Parenz Fredi Alberti – Klaenge Aus Dem Engelsraum (Die Verdunklung Der Sonne Und Des Mondes)
Label: Scribble Art Records – none
Series: Seins-Musik – none, Artfusion – No. 4
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM, Mini-Album
Country: Germany
Released: 1981
Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Experimental, Drone, Tribal, Ethereal
Deadstock copies of this transcendentally ancient sounding art/folk/fusion LP from ex Pan-Ra man Fredi Alberti.
Throughout the long 60s musicians who saw themselves as both anthropologist and shaman spread out from university towns across Europe and the Americas. They hunted through the junk shops of the world searching for ocarinas, samisens, psalteries and tablas. And returned to make LPs on Wergo, ECM, and Harmonia Mundi. Think Stephen Micus, The Incredible String Band, Gregorio Paniagua, Peter Giger, Bengt Berger, Embryo etc. etc. Sometimes this approach created the worst kind of musical cultural appropriation with too many notes. But sometimes one of these unlikely mixtures of unfamiliar instruments, recondite modalities and post-psychedelic freedom created weird, fierce and transformative music. Fredi Alberti’s work fits perfectly into this category. Pân-Râ, his previous band made raw rhythmic slightly scary records that they described as ‘Music From Atlantis’. This album made in 1981 after a trip to Japan continues in this vein. It’s a rich and unsettling improvised mixture of ancient pan-Mediterranean musics with African, Arabic and Indian influences, played on ukulele, cello, harmonium and hand drums. The untitled first track, with its whirling harmonium, strung out vocals and stepping clay drum, is totally transporting – like recovering the memory of painting on a cave wall 35,000 years ago.
Also, with a stunning gimmick sleeve by artist Heinz-Jürgen Kropp.. (NM / NM – unplayed stock copy)
Tracklist
A1 Untitled
A2 Untitled
A3 Untitled
B1 Untitled
B2 Untitled
