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cDr|m's
.:: a klangwerk release ..................................................::.
artist :: les gammas
release :: exercises de styles
year :: 2000
genre :: lo-fi
label :: compost records
catalogue :: compost 074-1
website :: www.compost-records.com
ripper :: karmacoma
date :: 08-aug-2001
quality :: 192kbps/44,100hz
source :: vinyl
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a1 whenever 6:20
a2 all of me 3:20
a3 afternoon at rossi's 5:26
b1 see the sun 5:55
b2 love ultd. 6:48
b3 love to be 5:28
c1 document a 5:48
c2 don't waste my love 7:02
d1 la vie des anges 6:52
d2 samba para dr. b. 6:39
d3 austrian shepherd dance 5:11
playtime :: 01h 04m 49s
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mark frank, dj, drummer and singer and pianist jochen helfert are
les gammas.
jochen has been playing rhodes in a brasil-jazz combo - together
with the gammas' live bassist pe spier - where he has developed his
own ideas of harmonics and sound. marc, co-founder of augsburg's
legendary "vibe klub" had always been obsessed by the idea of
combining electronic and acoustic music. though living in the same
town the two only met three years ago:
trying to rearrange an old vocal-jazz tune, mark despaired because
his knowledge didn't go beyond c-sus. the only suitable pianist for
this complex song who came to his mind was jochen. after some bars
it became obvious that their musical minds thought along the same
lines.
les gammas, named after some extraterrestrial hippies of a tv
language course, had landed.
their first track,"servus mr. bond" (compost records) had already
conquered the clubs as dubplate before being put on their debut
maxi. since then the gammas have been working on their own special
soundworld, ranging between club and concert hall, exotic and
electronic, between soul and soundtrack. the remixes marc and
jochen produced so far for bugge wesseltoft, syrup and moodorama
are renowned.
suspense. this is what all the the work in the "solinarium"-studio
deals with. when is the point reached where notes, rhythms and
sounds make a song? the point at which the ingredients all
producers and musicians have at their hands, turn into a les gammas
track? it is reached when marc and jochen sit in their studio and
listen to a half-finished track , when they look at each other,
bemused :" is that from us?" every track is a step into unknown
terrain, a pleasurable or unexpected discovery and revelation of
the personal musical background, which was maybe thought lost.
every new track is an exercise for the following one, without
knowing, what or how it's going to be like. free-jazz legend karl
"dr.b" berger must have sensed this open-minded musical
sensitivity, when the gammas talked to him after one of his
concerts. since then he's been paying visits to the "solinarium"
whenever he's in germany and his contributions to the gammas' songs
will surely not to be confined to their first album.
the same applies to ingrid sertso, whose unparalleled voice gave
"love to be" a supernatural touch.
this 2lp of les gammas' debut features tracks not available on the
previously released cd!
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greetings :: sb, qdp, sour, dps, rac, dh, sfe, hbz, tr, igr and mgc
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