Hartmut Geerken, Requiem For The Snake Of Maidan
- Artist
- GEERKEN, Hartmut
- Title
- Requiem For The Snake Of Maidan
- Label
- Holidays Italy
- Catalogue number
- HOL138
- Format
- Vinyl
- Genre
- Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
- Release date
- 2025-04-03
- Price
- £37.99
- Availability
- In stock, only 1 left
Edition of 500 copies with 3 inserts. Barcode on hypesticker front cover Quote from Geerken's liner notes: "... in addition to the acoustic environment of my instruments, in some parts of my improvisation I used a battery-powered tape recorder (Uher 440 report stereo IC) with a pre-recorded feeding tape that I had pre-recorded before alone or together with Michael Ranta in Kabul ... " The 'percussion-environment' is a 2x2x2 meters tubular cube including associated instruments. Instruments Lithophone (ringing stones from Buddhist stupa) Different gongs Tibetan boo chals Peking opera gongs Egyptian Ramadan drum Bells Lead camel bell Thunder sheet Water gong Glockenspiel Sun ras Sun harp Indian swarmandal String drum (lion's roar) Tibetan short tube African drums Waterphone Bamboo wood chimes Mokattam pod rattles Korean temple blocks Jew’s harp Whistles Mouth organ Singing hose Pre-recorded feeding tape
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