The Cocoon ‎– Stretching Things (1992)

"Psychedelic-Rock & Jazz-Fusion" - ein blödes Etikett, aber es ist schwer, den Stil dieser Platte zu beschreiben. Vielleicht einfach die beteiligten Musiker erwähnen? Jazzlegende Gunther Hampel an Vibraphon, Keyboards und Blasinstrumenten, Gitarrist und Toningenieur Matthias Arfmann (Kastrierte Philosophen), Sänger/Gitarrist Jürgen Gleue von den legendären "39 Clocks" und Schlagzeuger Rüdiger Klose (Kastrierte Philosophen und auch Mitwirkender bei den 39 Clocks). Eine starke und unvergleichliche Platte!


Tracklist

01     Fly-By-Night People                              
02     Electrically Cominto Another Room
03     It Makes Sense - Burn The House Down
04     Ape Tribe Stomp                       
05     Excuse Me If I Don't Walk Straight    
06     Is It You Or Is It Me               
07     Stretching Things                      
08     There's An Order To Everything But You
09     Magic Mime Week
10     Be There 


Credits

Artwork By [Cover And Digital Treatments] – BeyerBehrensLiquidsky
Lyrics By – J. Gleue* (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 7 to 9), M. Arfmann* (tracks: 3), Shaun Vargas (tracks: 6)
Mixed By – K. Achinger* (tracks: 3), M. Arfmann* (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 7, 8), R. Klose* (tracks: 4, 6, 9, 10)
Music By – Cocoon, The (tracks: 2, 4, 9, 10), G. Hampel* (tracks: 1, 5 to 8), M. Arfmann* (tracks: 3)
Photography – Arno Declair
Producer – Cocoon, The
Recorded By – Katrin Achinger
Vocals – Shaun Vargas (tracks: 6)
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Bass – J.G.L. III*
Vocals, Drums, Percussion, Tape [Manipulation] – Mad High Hatter
Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar – Arfmann*
Vocals, Vibraphone, Clarinet [Bass], Flute, Keyboards, Percussion – Gunther Hampel*


All tracks written and composed in 1991.
Recorded at Knochenhaus Studios.

Exit Out ‎– Peruse Prankster (1986)

Label: What's So Funny About..
Released: 1986

Tracklist

01. (Oh Boy) That Line Is Engaged
02. Mrs. Rye
03. She Relies On Books
04. Subway Sickness
05. Exclusive Hotel For Hass-Beens
06. Hard Core Paranoia
07. You Give Me The Kicks
08. Searchin´ For The Jets
09. Dear Mr. Walker


Credits

Bass, Electric Piano, Grand Piano, Organ – J. Worat*
Drums, Management [Announcements] – R. Klose*
Guitar, Harmonica [Harp], Vocals – J. Gleue*
Lyrics By – J. Worat* (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1 to B3), J. Gleue* (tracks: A1 to A5, B2, B4)
Music By – J. Worat*
Photography By – R. Klose*
Producer – Exit Out, Rainer Holst



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39 Clocks – Pain It Dark (1981)

Given the glut of music produced underground over the last 50 years or so, some truly excellent music is bound to go unnoticed in its own time. Such is the case with Hanover, Germany’s 39 Clocks. Earlier this year saw the release of Zoned, a compilation album that included several of the tracks from Pain It Dark. Originally released in 1981, Pain It Dark was the debut album from the band and owed no small debt to the Velvet Underground, Suicide, and Nuggets-era garage rock. The re-release brings the band’s spare arrangements, cold German-inflected English vocals, and comfort with discomfort into today’s context—and it all sounds great.

It’s such a joy to discover something from the past that sounds so vital, so ripe for broader discovery and adoration. If the sometimes-harsh sonics and low vocal levels don’t offend, they’re not doing their job. For a band known in their time as tricksters and provocateurs, it’s simply their mode of operation. That’s not to say that songs like “Psycho Beat” and “Radical Student Mob in Satin Boots” aren’t “accessible”—it simply depends on your definition of the word.

Although VU is clearly the band’s touchstone, the band simply uses them as a jumping-off point. Pain It Dark sounds like American garage and proto-punk filtered through some shadow-filled masterpiece of German expressionism. It took 28 years for the music of 39 Clocks to emerge from the shadows, but thankfully, it has.

A1 Shake The Hippie
A2 DNS
A3 Soldier Dead
A4 Out Of Sight
A5 Stupid Art
A6 Test The Beat

B1 Psycho Beat
B2 Twisted & Shouts
B3 Radical Student Mob In Satin Boots
B4 39 Explosion Heats
B5 A Look Into You

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39 Clocks – Zoned (1980 - 1987)

The first public appearance pairing Christian Henjes and Juergen Gleue (inspired by and with names derived from LSD-25, they would become CH-39 and JG-39) was in 1976, at the Dada Nova (a space occupied by Otto Mühl’s AAO commune) in midtown Hannover, Germany. Dada Nova would be a space of enduring clash. From the subtlety of a shat upon organ to the ejection from communal meetings by bodily force, the AAO would display that the presence of the 39 Clocks was one of their constant grief.

Known for pranksterism and the destruction of the clubs in which they would perform, friction in every form would continually follow the band. In 1979 they were thrown out of a show in Kassel at Dokumenta (their sounds had disturbed Joseph Beuys). They created an outrage (they wrote a tune with the title “Art Minus Idiots”) at the Filmtage Hannover with their avant-garde Super 8 movies made under the disguise of director Zachius Lipschitz. Rumour claims that at a Hannover show at the Cafe Glocksee, they played the vacuum cleaner and a circular saw instead of guitars, and there was even a knife throwing incident in Bremen.

Inspired, then, clearly, by protest in the broadest and most romantic sense (they wrote a tune with the title “Radical Student Mob In Satin Boots”) their’s was a sound attuned to classic American Punk / Nuggets. Although, this is not Bomp Rock; theirs was a thrust that purposed deconstruction and reassembly in the most modern sense. This collection was put together with the non completeist in mind (originals of some of these records are as rare as Italian underwear), intending to display the general 39 Clocks vibe, but also some of their more curious wrinkles. And as the Clocks were always interested in where they were going and not where they’d been, the chronology here is strictly reversed. Diedrich Diedrichsen wrote the first review of the band (in Spex), and we at DeStijl are very pleased to have had him scribe liner notes. More...

01 My Tears Will Drown The World
02 You Can't Count The Bombs (It's Zero)
03 Fast Cars
04 PLO
05 Rainy Night Insanities
06 Past Tense Hope & Instant Fears On 42nd
07 Dom (Electricity Elects The Rain)
08 Heat Of Violence
09 New Crime Appeal
10 Aspetando Godo
11 A Look Into You
12 39 Explosion Heats
13 Psycho Beat
14 Test The Beat
15 78 Soldier Dead
16 Shake The Hippie
17 Twisted & Shouts
18 DNS

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