Label: Faitiche – faitiche 05lp
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental
Design [Graphikdesign] – Jens Reitemeyer
Mastered By – Kassian Troyer
Limited edition of 500 copies.
Tracklist:
A1 Sonne = Black Box (1972)
A2 Jubiläum (1984)
A3 Nach Europa (1977)
A4 Trabant ( 1970)
A5 Or Dor Melanor (1981)
A6 Uranotypie (1978)
B1 Strahlungen (1974)
B2 Der Chor Der Oktaven (1975)
B3 Illusorische Planeten (1974)
B4 Permutationen (1982)
B5 Shepard Monde (1971)
B6 Signalfluss (1980)
B7 Homöostat (1985)
B8 Refrain Für Einen Formanten (1972)
B9 De Planetarum Influxu (1976)
Germany's answer to Daphne Oram or Raymond Scott - or more likely an
elaborate wind-up perpetrated by Jan Jelinek, on whose Faitiche label
her "archive" recordings sporadically appear - Ursula Bogner is back.
Whether or not it's Jelinek behind the Bogner corpus (and I think by now
we know the answer to that), there's no disputing the consistently
brittle beauty, dizzying complexity and easy charm of her radiophonic
constructions. You certainly get a lot of Bogner for your buck on Sonne =
Blackbox, with 15 tracks showcasing her brand of primitive electronic
composition and tape manipulation. On 'Or Dor Melanor', 'Shepard Monde'
and the title track, Broadcast and Stereolab immediately come to mind,
while the eerie synthetic ramble of 'Trabant' is like the Ghost Box crew
relocated from Belbury to Berlin. There are killers throughout:
'Signalfluss' and particularly 'Uranotypie' with its combo of droning,
minimal electronics and Teutonic spoken voice, sound like vital cold
wave (cold war?) artefacts, while the playful, impish quality of 'Der
Chor Der Oktaven' and 'Permutationen' (before it lapses into a kind of
slanted techno groove) invoke the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's John Baker
and Delia Derbyshire. If there's a dead giveaway that this is Jelinek's
work through and through, it's the heaviness of the sub-bass and the
attendant dub-head's sense of space, both hard to imagine in late 60s
and early 70s Germany. Whatever you want to believe, make no mistake,
this is a truly delightful collection of off-kilter electronic music and
quite simply a must for all dedicated heads.
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