Requiem For The Snake Of Maidan by Hartmut Geerken, released 7 February 2025.
This version of Requiem For The Snake Of Maidan comes as a 2xLP. -
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