HARTMUT GEERKEN - orpheus LP Dark Ambient When the extremists took over

When the extremists took over his hometown

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Recorded 2016-2019 in Los Angeles

Announcing the first new recordings by Godspeed You

HARTMUT GEERKEN - orpheus LP Dark Ambient When the extremists took overFantastic sound poetry piece by Hartmut Geerken restringing the Sun Harp, the Ukranian bandura that Sun Ra gave him in 1971 when he visited Egypt for the first time. The acoustics of his manual workings emerge without any esthetic intention: the bandura's voluminous resonating body forms the reverb of the room. Each manual action and each contact of the tuning key with the wooden body is 'reverbed'. The instrument creates its audio space. A mythic