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On this Catalogue you could find last Wah Wah 2014/2015 vinyl release. There are essential recording from true innovators such as Popol Vuh,The Spoils of War,Ictus,Season,Hardy Kukuk ,and nextly releases like Via Lactea,Flute and Voice,Zweinstein,Urban Sax.

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C ATA L O G U E , L AT E S T A L B U M SJUNE 2015

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Wah Wah records is a record shop located at The Raval district,in Barcelona,and ope-ned doors last 1992 year.

During the 90 s we saw the birth of a new era of digital music were CD format, was the replace of vinyl sales. When a disc get on the market, the majority of sales were on CD, while the vinyl productions were made in a very limited quantities,only.Wah Wah records, choose music on vinyl from the start, although the multinational labels in rock music ,took the CD format because of their low manufacturing cost.Like all the comerces,record stores saw crises sales,also.On the 2000s,young Consumer´s everyday lives have been affected by the crises on multiple levels – from job loss, and prefer listen digital music through the computer or Ipod,to buy music on vinyl.To avoid the crises, Wah Wah records, have their own record label,promoting pro-gressive and electronic European 70´s rock

music,mainly.On their vinyl catalogue,you could find many 70´s German electronic/experimen-tal music and vinyl reissues of music from around the world.

The original vinyls of mostly Wah Wah reis-sues,are very sough after collectors items with high prices value on record collector meeting fairs around the world,like every year take place in Utrecht,Holland.

During the music festivals (Sonar and Primavera Sound) and thanks to tourism than comes to visit Barcelona record sales get higher due to visit of youngest costu-mers, who buy Indie and 80´s pop music vinyls,and spend a good time in Wah Wah record shop,talking and listening music.Visit a record shop is an unique experience than you couldn´t find buying records by internet.

In recent years we have a significant

increase of vinyl sales, because the vinyl format are ideal for listening music, thanks to their beautiful art covers ,and analog sound than you couldn´t listen on CD.Most CDs are mastered today with 6 to 8 dB or more digital compression, over and above any compression done in the original recording, just to make them loud, and the same loudness as every other current CD.That´s the reason than many music collec-tors prefer to listen those analogic vinyl reissues to compress CDs.

Two decades of presenting some of the finest music ever minted.One´s of the best five music record world shops.The best vinyl records in progressi-ve,Canterbury,psychedelia and rock music.Now,Wah Wah records is proud to offer to music followers around the world, high quality music vinyl reissues.On this Catalogue you could find last Wah Wah 2014/2015 vinyl release.There are essential recording from true

innovators such as Popol Vuh,The Spoils of War,Ictus,Season,Hardy Kukuk ,and nextly releases like Via Lactea,Flute and Voice,Zweinstein,Urban Sax.

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C O N T E N I D OTHE SPOILS OF WAR (2LP + BONUS 7” EP).....................................................................................................................................................................................5ICTUS - S/T (featuring ANDREA CENTAZZO, ARMANDO BATTISTON, FRANCO FERUGLIO) ..................................................................................... 6SEASON DOREMBUS-JACQ-ARONDEL-MICHALAKAKOS ...................................................................................................................................................... 7WOLFGANG ORSCHAKOWSKI - ZIPPO ZETTERLINK IN THE POOR SUN (LP + BONUS CD) ................................................................................. 8HARDY KUKUK - ATEMNOT ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9POPOL VUH-AFFENSTUNDE ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10POPOL VUH - IN DEN GÄRTEN PHARAOS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 10POPOL VUH - HOSIANNA MANTRA .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 11POPOL VUH - SELIGPREISUNG ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11POPOL VUH - EINSJÄGER & SIEBENJÄGER .................................................................................................................................................................................... 12

F O RT H C O M I N G R E L E A S E SPOPOL VUH - DAS HOHELIED SALOMOS .................................................................................................................................................................................... 14POPOL VUH - AGUIRRE ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15POPOL VUH - LETZTE TAGE, LETZTE NÄCHTE .......................................................................................................................................................................... 16POPOL VUH - HERZ AUS GLASS/COEUR DE VERRE .................................................................................................................................................................. 17POPOL VUH - NOSFERATU ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 18CARLOS ALVARADO VIA LÁCTEA ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19FLUTE & VOICE - IMAGINATIONS OF LIGHT + HALLO RABBIT........................................................................................................................................... 20FLUTE & VOICE - DRACHENLIEDER ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 21ZWEISTEIN - TRIP · FLIP-OUT · MEDITATION............................................................................................................................................................................. 22URBAN SAX - URBAN SAX 1 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 23URBAN SAX-URBAN SAX 2 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24URBAN SAX - FRACTION SUR LE TEMPS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 25URBAN SAX - SPIRAL ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26

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LPS138

THE SPOILS OF WAR (2LP + BONUS 7” EP)After the successful reissues of the two Mormos albums on Wah Wah, we proudly present a fantastic double LP + bonus 7” EP with the works of Jim Cuomo’s pre-Mor-mos band Spoils Of War. Jim had already served with instro-rockers The Cool Notes in Texas, along with future Big Brother & The Holding Co. founder and guitarist Sam Houston Andrew III when he moved to the University of Illi-nois to obtain his Master Degree in Music. It was in Illinois where The Spoils Of War were born in 1968, named after a musical instrument invented by Harry Partch - it’s name coming from the fact it had actually been built from spent artillery shells. Alongside Jim, other members included Al Ierardi on guitar, Roger Francisco on bass, Frank Garvey on drums and James Stround on “live sound manipula-tion.” Annie Hat would soon join on vocals, and last gigs were played with Charlie Braugham on drums.

The S.O.W. sound was an intelligent mixture of late sixties acid psych with electronic experimentation -in a similar way to what Joe Byrd was producing with The United Sta-tes Of America or Cork Marcheski would explore with 50 Foot Hose- plus there’s some very imaginative songs here that could put the band in the same league Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention were playing. Exciting com-

puter generated sounds mix into a cool psychedelic rock background. It is one of the early pioneering experiments of electronic music and drones on a rock band, made at a time when programming computer sounds was really an adventure, since electronic music was still a burgeoning phenomenon. The box that had been opened by the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio a.o. left a lot of things for Cuomo and his peers to explore - and they were not afraid of doing so!

Back in the day the Spoils Of War had little chances to pu-blish their recordings. Only two small 33RPM 7” EPs were released, showcasing their talent and adventurous love for experimentation

Here are -collected in a gorgeous 2LP set compiled with the great cooperation of Jim Cuomo himself- their studio works, including previously unreleased recordings, some later work by Cuomo and Co. plus a bonus 7” reproduc-tion of the first Spoils Of War original self-produced EP from 1969.

Reissued in a 500 copies limited edition double LP housed in a gatefold gimmick sleeve with inner pop-up, fratures a bonus 7” EP, a Spoils Of War sticker, comes with remaste-red sound and includes an insert with liner notes courtsey of Jim Cuomo himself and Klemen Breznikar (psychedelic-baby.blogspot.com), plus full colour photos.

ARTIST: THE SPOILS OF WARTITLE : S/TLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS138FORMAT : 2LP + 7”

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LPS146

ICTUS - S/T(featuring ANDREA CENTAZ-ZO, ARMANDO BATTISTON, FRANCO FERUGLIO)Before his magnificent experiments with electronic music on Elektrictus (previously reissued on Wah Wah), Andrea Centazzo was already an accomplished musician who had issued his recorded works on the PDU and RCA labels. His first release was Ictus, a free-form avantgarde jazz oddessey on which he already started to experiment with electronic generated sounds.

Ictus was a band formed by Centazzo, Armando Battiston and Franco Feruglio, although back in the day the sleeve of the PDU release credited the work only to Centazzo, and as if Ictus was simply the title of the album. This was a big mistake that we have been asked to correct in our reissue.

A brave drummer and percussionist, on this album Cen-tazzo also played flute, synths and sang. He was joined on some tracks by Franco Feruglio on bass and double bass and Armando Battiston on keyboards. It has been compared to Soft Machine’s Third or Wolfgang Dauner’s

Et Cetera.

It was originally released in 1974 and it gets its first ever vinyl reissue here, housed in a gatefold cover in a 500 co-pies limited edition. red sound and includes an insert with liner notes courtsey of Jim Cuomo himself and Klemen Breznikar (psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com), plus full colour photos.

ARTIST : ICTUS (ANDREA CENTAZZO, ARMANDO BATTISTON, FRANCO FERUGLIO)TITLE : ICTUSLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS147FORMAT : LP

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LPS150

SEASON DOREMBUS-JA-CQ-ARONDEL-MICHA-LAKAKOSJay Alansky, a.k.a. Patrick Arondel, was one half of the duet who brought us that amazing Beautiful Losers’ Nobody Knows The Heaven album in 1974, among many other works - he has been active in the music world for the last four decades producing various albums through the years under many different aliases. But our matter to-day is a faithful reissue of his earliest works. Season, done with band mates Christophe Jacq, François Dorembus and Michel Michalakakos was originally issued on Aron-del’s father’s own label Monde Melody and sold in small quantities, mostly around their own high school classma-tes at the Lycée Voltaire, which according to Jay’s own words in the liner notes to The Beautiful Losers CD reissue on Lion Productions / Martyrs Of Pop, was “known for its post-68 turmoil”.

And certainly, the counter-culture elements of the late six-ties, early seventies melt in a stunning folk-prog rarity from the French underground that has remained a well kept se-cret through the years! The average age of the musicians was 16 years old! And the album was recorded in just nine hours using studio time offered by Jay’s father.

We have included the two songs of the rare Arondel / Dorembus / Jacq / Michalakakos Hello Life / Inside The Sacred Book 7” as bonus to round the reissue!

Reissued under license from Jay Alansky with the coope-ration of Christopher Jacq, François Dorembus and Michel Mikalakakos in a 500 copies limited edition that respects the original artwork, comes with remastered sound, bonus tracks and includes an insert with liner notes by Jean-Em-manuel Deluxe.

ARTIST : SEASONTITLE : DOREMBUS-JACQ-ARONDEL-MICHALAKOSLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS150FORMAT : LP

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LPS151

WOLFGANG ORSCHAKOWS-KI - ZIPPO ZETTERLINK IN THE POOR SUN (LP + BONUS CD)Wolfgang Orschakowski is one of the most free spirits of the krautrock underground. Hailing from Hamburg, he has been producing music, paintings and all other kinds of artistic projects for the past four decades, always active with dozens of new projects boiling inside his head. Zippo Zetterlink In The Poor Sun, originally released in 1971 as a self produced private pressing that is nowadays impos-sible to find unless you are ready to pay some amounts of money in the collector’s market, was his first ever release. It is at last reissued in vinyl, a properly licensed edition done with the kind cooperation of Wolfgang himself and housed in an exact repro of its original sleeve.

The music contained could be taken as the seed to Ors-chakowski’s music world : free-form underground sounds, a way-out trip through expansive guitar riffs and strum-ming, hypnotic bass lines, killer drum breakbeats and elusive percussion, plus the occasional vocal, some blues freak-out and psychedelic effects. It will appeal to fans of other kraut classics like Amon Düül’s Psychedelic Under-ground, early Guru Guru and the likes.

The Wah Wah reissue comes with a fantastic bonus CD featuring another of Wolfgang’s projects: the acid psych music of WoOZ! performing their Катюша / Katyusha, red point on g-spot 10-song album.

Reissued under license from Wolfgang Orschakowski in a 500 copies limited edition that respects the original artwork, comes with remastered sound and includes a bonus CD by Orschakowski’s psychedelic project WoOZ! housed in a fold-out poster sleeve with liner notes and photos.

ARTIST : WOLFGANG ORSCHAKOWSKITITLE : ZIPPO ZETTERLINK IN THE POOR SUNLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS151FORMAT : LP

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LPS156

HARDY KUKUK - ATEMNOTOne of the biggest rarities from the cosmische kraut un-derground scene has to be Hardy Kukuk’s lost 1981 top Berlin School electronic masterpiece Atemnot. Kukuk’s synth explorations take the adventures of masters of the genre like Tangerine Dream or Klaus Schulze one step further into the early eighties. Kukuk is joined on these recordings by Andreas Schneider on guitar and congas and Klaus Bloch (of A La Ping Pong fame) on guitar and tape effects.

After Atemnot Kukuk recorded a second LP, Timeless, before joining forces with Matthias Culmey in the early 2000’s to form the electronic duo Beatboys 2000.

The Wah Wah reissue comes with remastered sound and housed in a faithful reproduction of original private pres-sing sleeve. It also includes an insert with cool photos and liner notes.

First ever vinyl reissue limited to 500 copies only!

ARTIST : HARDY KUKUKTITLE : ATEMNOTLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS156FORMAT : LP

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LPS117

POPOL VUH - IN DEN GÄRTEN PHARAOS“In Den Gärten Pharaos” was originally issued in 1971, this time by Pilz, yet it wasn’t precisely on the folk vein that Herr Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser was trying to keep the label into by those days. It’s sound drinks directly from the same waters that brought Affenstunde, although there is a clear move towards some less dark passages, and the use of church organ as the main instrument, plus a first introduction into the ethnic music elements that Popol Vuh would soon mix into their cauldron bring new light to the sound. Reissued from the master tapes in quality vinyl pressing, full glory laminated gatefold cover and featuring bonus, an insert with liners and photos. Limited to 500 copies worlwide.

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : IN DEN GÄRTEN PHARAOSLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS117FORMAT : LP + INSERT + POSTER

LPS116

POPOL VUH-AFFENSTUNDEIssued on Liberty in 1970, the debut LP by Popol Vuh features Florian Fricke’s Moog synthesizer experiments at it’s most spirited wild. Supported at times by Holger Trül-szch’s percussion, flying free at others, the result has been labeled as a dark, unmelodic, unprecedented sound and it settled the path for many kraut adventurers to follow. Reissued from the master tapes in quality vinyl pressing, full glory laminated gatefold cover and featuring bonus, an insert with liners and photos. Limited to 500 copies worlwide.

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : AFFENSTUNDELABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS116FORMAT : LP + INSERT + POSTER

POPOL VUHWah Wah proudly announces the upcoming ULTIMATE reissues of the Popol Vuh discography! Their first 5 LPs will be available in luxury vinyl editions in September 2013. Made in coperation with Florian Fricke’s family and SPV. High quality repros of the first five LPs by Popol Vuh with extra goodies: rare bonus tracks, insert with liners & rare period photos, bonus 7” on Hosianna Mantra, quality la-minated gatefold sleeves faithfully reproducing the original artwork, mastered from the original tapes - top class legit editions for one of the big names in kraut music. Popol Vuh, led by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke and with their name taken from the Maya mythology, were formed in 1969 and stayed active until Fricke’s death in 2001. In 1969 Fricke joined forces with Holger Trülzsch (percus-sion) and Frank Fielder (synthesizer, recording engineer and technical assistance) and they soon became one of the most interesting bands of kraut music’s avant-garde, being pioneers in sounds that have later been categori-sed as ambient music, space / cosmic music or New Age music. Other influential musicians from the kraut scene have been involved in the project through the years, so names like Djong Yun, Conny Veit (leader himself of another kraut legendary formation, Gila - actually Gila’s last line-up was Popohl Vuh plus singer Sabine Merbach), Daniel Fichel-scher (Amon Düül II, Gila), Klaus Wiese or Robert Eliscu (also a member of Between) are found at one moment or another in any of the 20 albums that Popol Vuh recorded through during its lifespan, which also include soundtrac-ks to films by German director Werner Herzog like Aguirre or Nosferatu, among others. Wah Wah is very proud to offer these gorgeous reissues of Popol Vuh’s first five LPs,which are issued in full luxury and each in a limited edition!

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LPS118

POPOL VUH - HOSIANNA MANTRAWith its religious theme it shouldn’t be heretic to consider Hosianna Mantra as a small miracle. Suddenly the dark, unmelodic Popol Vuh offer us an incredibly beautiful work of amazing gothic folk that, this time, fit perfectly in the Pilz catalogue - yet managing to sound as something completely unique. It was originally released in 1972 and featured a host of musicians that included Conny Veit on guitars, Robert Eliscu on oboe, Djong Yun on vocals and Klaus Wiesse on tamboura, led of course by Florian Fricke who played piano and cembalo.

The Wah Wah edition features a bonus 7” w/PS that repro-duces the original, rare 45 by Korean soprano Djong Yun featuring “Du Sollst Lieben” and “Ave Maria”, written by Bettina Fricke and backed by Popol Vuh. Reissued from the master tapes in quality vinyl pressing, full glory laminated gatefold cover and featuring the bonus 7” plus an insert with liners and photos. Her only solo output known is this obscure single, which we’ve not encountered an original of in over 20 years (the Freeman brothers’ Crack in the Cosmic Egg )

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : HOSIANNA MANTRALABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS118FORMAT :LP + INSERT + BONUS 7”

LPS119

POPOL VUH - SELIGPREISUNGThe fourth LP by Popol Vuh was originally released on Kosmische Musik in 1973. It follows the religious theme of its predecessor and features the line up of Florian Fricke with Conny Veit on guitars, Daniel Fischelscher on guitars and drums (he was the drummer of Düül II), Robert Eliscu on oboe, Djong Yun on vocals and Klaus Wiesse on tam-boura. Reissued from the master tapes in quality vinyl pressing, full glory laminated gatefold cover and featuring an insert with liners and photos. Limited to 500 copies worlwide.

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : SELIGPREISUNGLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS119FORMAT :LP + INSERT

Limited to 500 copies worlwide.

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LPS120

POPOL VUH - EINSJÄGER & SIE-BENJÄGEREinsjäger & Siebenjäger, originally released on Kosmische Musik in 1974. Settling down the partnership of Florian Fricke with Daniel Fischelscher that was started in the pre-vious outing and, again, featuring Korean soprano Djong Yun on vocals, the fifth Popol Vuh LP also counted on sporadic contributions by Olaf Kübler on flute to follow the path set on Hosianna Mantra and Seligpreisung. Reissued from the master tapes in quality vinyl pressing, full glory laminated gatefold cover and featuring bonus, an insert with liners and photos. Limited to 500 copies worlwide.

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : EINSJÄGER & SIEBENJÄGERLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS120FORMAT :LP + INSERT

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F O RT H C O M I N G R E L E A S E S

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LPS157

POPOL VUH - DAS HOHELIED SALOMOSWe start our second series of Popol Vuh reissues with the fantastic Das Hohelied Salomos, which takes it over from where Einsjäger Und Siebenjäger left it. It features the classic trio of Florian Fricke, Daniel Fichelscher and Djong Yun, plus the help of Amon Düül’s Al Gromer. The theme of the album is taken from biblical passages, using verses from King Salomon’s tales on The Old Testament. The music is superb, great guitar soloing, amazing per-cussion work and the mesmerizing voice of Djong Yun on nine songs that echo previous works, mostly Einsjäger..., but also Hosianna Mantra comes to mind here and there. A perfectly balanced record that merges progrock sounds, eastern influences through the use of sitar and tabla and spiritual meditation.

The Wah Wah limited edition will have three bonus tracks and come housed the beautiful original sleeve artwork printed on art type paper, as it was first released, and feature a triptic insert with liner notes.

It has been master Cut by Lex Van Coeverden @ www.thevinylroom.nl for a high quality sound pressing that will satisfy the most exquisite audiophile.

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : DAS HOHELIED SALOMOSLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS157FORMAT : LP + INSERT

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LPS158

POPOL VUH - AGUIRREWerner Herzog’s 1972 film Aguirre, The Wrath Of God was the first collaboration between the famed director and Popol Vuh. Florian Fricke was approached by old friend Herzog to do the soundtrack for his third movie. Three years later, in 1975, after the international success of Herzog’s film, Popol Vuh issued the LP Aguirre. It featured material recorded for the movie plus some other songs. Some of them recorded prior to 1975 - the Aguirre sound-track ones, of course, plus there is the presence of the big Moog from Popol Vuh’s early albums, and also contains Morgengruss II, an update of the Morgengruss song that had prevously appeared on Ensjäger Und Siebenjäger.

“Popol Vuh’s “hypnotic music” for Aguirre met with consi-derable acclaim. Roger Ebert wrote, “The music sets the tone. It is haunting, ecclesiastical, human and yet some-thing else... The music is crucial to Aguirre, the Wrath of God...” AllMusic noted, “The film’s central motif blends pulsing Moog and spectral voices conjured from Florian Fricke’s Mellotron-related “choir organ” to achieve some-thing sublime, in the truest sense of the word: it’s hard not to find the music’s awe-inspiring, overwhelming beauty si-multaneously unsettling. The power of the legendary ope-ning sequence of Herzog’s film...owes as much to Popol Vuh’s music as it does to the director’s mise-en-scène.”

Herzog explained how the choir-like sound was crea-ted, “We used a strange instrument, which we called a ‘choir-organ.’ It has inside it three dozen different tapes running parallel to each other in loops. ... All these tapes are running at the same time, and there is a keyboard on which you can play them like an organ so that [it will] sound just like a human choir but yet, at the same time, very artificial and really quite eerie.”

In 1975, Popol Vuh released an album entitled Aguirre. Although ostensibly a soundtrack album to Herzog’s film, the six-track LP included only two songs (“Aguirre I (L’Acrime Di Rei)” and “Aguirre II”) taken from Aguirre, the Wrath of God. The four remaining tracks were derived from various recordings done by the group c. 1972–1974. At the time of Aguirre, the band members were Fricke (pia-no, Mellotron), Fichelscher (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums), Djong Yun (vocals), and Robert Eliscu (oboe, pan pipe).” (Wikipedia)

Werner Herzog: “The music in my films is also very much neglected, if I may interrupt you, in Germany as well. Sin-ce AGUIRRE, my friend Florian Fricke, has done the music for almost all my films - for STEINER, for LA SOUFRIERE, for STROSZEK, and for HEART OF GLASS - and I’ve tried to push very hard so that he would be given the National Film Award this year. They’ve never given it to him, and there has been complete neglect of his work. Not even a single mention! And this year they just by-passed him once again!” [From: Images at the Horizon, 1979]Popol Vuh has been nominated three times for an Oscar for best original score: 1972 (Aguirre), 1979 (Nosferatu) and 1987 (Cobra Verde).

There have been several different editions of Aguirre and each has varied slightly or quite a lot from the original is-sue. Several reissues change the last track (the 17 minute long Vergegenwärtigung) to include material from other Popol Vuh albums, even in cases the song is listed on the sleeve the music is from completely different sources. Thanks to the accurate archive work of SPV on offer here is the original version of the album as it was first released in 1975.

Limited edition featuring one bonus track, remastered sound and original artwork plus an insert with liner notes and photos.

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : AGUIRRELABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS158FORMAT : LP + INSERT

15It has been master Cut by Lex Van Coeverden @ www.thevinylroom.nl for a high quality sound pressing that will satisfy the most exquisite audiophile.

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LPS159

POPOL VUH - LETZTE TAGE, LETZTE NÄCHTELetzte Tage, Letzte Nächte is probably the most “rock” sounding work of Popol Vuh’s production. Recorded by the classic trio of Fricke, Fichelscher and Yun, plus Ted de Jong on tamboura and Amon Düül members Al Gromer on sitar and Renate Knaup on additional vocals, its sounds seem to be more based on power than on ambient. Strong guitar passages emphasize this, with Fischelscher’s playing being harder than the Conny Veit ethereal parts on earlier records. The title track is also the first time that Popol Vuh record English words on a song.

“With his blistering and emotional guitar work Fichelscher made his mark on many of the Popol Vuh albums. An album like ‘Letzte Tage, letzte Nachte’(1976) would not be possible without him. But also this album would be impossible without multi-tracking, a technique that Popol Vuh was heavily dependent on throughout their existence. This album shows Popol Vuh from its most rocking and dynamic side. But even here it is evident that a remarkable spiritualism defines the music. In a down-to-earth way Fricke wanted his music to be a ‘healing force’, an ‘uplif-ting experience for the human soul’. This spiritual quality is inherent and constitutive for all the music he made during his career. This proves Fricke was successful in commu-

nicating these intentions to the musicians involved.” Dolf Mulder (www.popolvuh.nl)

Limited edition, featuring one bonus track not on the origi-nal vinyl and remastered sound, issued in a reproduction of its original sleeve and with an insert featuring photos and liner notes.

It has been master Cut by Lex Van Coeverden @ www.thevinylroom.nl for a high quality sound pressing that will satisfy the most exquisite audiophile.

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : LETZTE TAGE - LETZTE NÄCHTELABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS159FORMAT : LP + INSERT

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LPS160/DE LPS60/FR

POPOL VUH - HERZ AUS GLASS- COEUR DE VERREAnother classic soundtrack produced by Popol Vuh for a Werner Herzog film was Herz Aus Glass. Its music still retains the powerful emphasis given to the previous LP in certain passages, although it goes back to their more reflexive ambiental athmospheres yet presenting that con-cept one step further into more evolutive structures and even adding some touches of a certain folk music feel. Djong Yun is not present anymore, but Daniel Fichelscher and Florian Fricke can still count on the collaboration of Al Gromer on sitar, plus the addition of Mathias von Tippels-kirch on flute. Werner Herzog: “The music in my films is also very much neglected, if I may interrupt you, in Germany as well. Sin-ce AGUIRRE, my friend Florian Fricke, has done the music for almost all my films - for STEINER, for LA SOUFRIERE, for STROSZEK, and for HEART OF GLASS - and I’ve tried to push very hard so that he would be given the National Film Award this year. They’ve never given it to him, and there has been complete neglect of his work. Not even a single mention! And this year they just by-passed him once again!” [From: Images at the Horizon, 1979]

Popol Vuh has been nominated three times for an Oscar for best original score: 1972 (Aguirre), 1979 (Nosferatu) and 1987 (Cobra Verde).

On offer here two different sleeves to chose from. Half of the copies will come in its original blue cover, as it was originally issued in Germany, the other half will be housed in the beautiful French sleeve, originally released as Coeur de Verre. Audiophile fidelity remastered sound plus an insert with photos and liner notes.

WHILE COPIES LAST YOU CAN CHOSE WHICH COVER YOU PREFER, PLEASE INDICATE LPS160DE FOR THE ORIGINAL BLUE GERMAN COVER OR LPS160FR FOR THE ORIGINAL FRENCH VERSION.

It has been master Cut by Lex Van Coeverden @ www.thevinylroom.nl for a high quality sound pressing that will satisfy the most exquisite audiophile.

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : HERZ AUS GLASSLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS160/DEFORMAT : CLEAR VINYL LP + INSERT

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POPOL VUH - NOSFERATUThe story of the Nosferatu soundtrack editions through the years appears a little caotic. Several editions, with several sleeves and completely different tracklists have appeared in different countries. What we tried to offer here is the definitive edition of Popol Vuh’s works for this fantastic Werner Herzog 1979 tribute to the old Murnau classic. When asked for a new soundtrack for Herzog’s project, Florian Fricke and Daniel Fichelscher came out with a magnificent album that once again, as it had happened with Hosianna Mantra, opened new paths to follow. The album, although having been recorded with the movie in mind, was not titled Nosferatu. Instead it was released as Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts, which can be translated as “Brother Of Darkness - Son Of Light”. It first came out in 1978 featuring amazing new age / ambient escapades based on repetitive passages and instrumen-tation of incredible beauty, recorded with the help of Al Gromer (Amon Düül) on sitar, Bob Eliscu (Between) on oboe, Ted de Jong on tamboura plus a complete church choir ensemble from Munich. Brüder des Schattens..., also issued in other editions as Nosferatu, makes disc one on this gorgeous double LP set.

Disc two of the Wah Wah edition features the LP that was originally released as the Nosferatu Original Sound Track album, also known as On The Way To A Little Way. A 1978

release, although it contained material recorded prior to that date. Right in the middle of the film production, Herzog felt he needed more music and asked Fricke for obscure, scary material. He searched the Popol Vuh archi-ves and compiled the great collection that Nosferatu / On The Way... is. It came out a varied selectionç where older Moog tracks mix with more reflexive material that already gives clues of what’s to come in Brüder des Schattens... Nevertheless, despite all the variety -or maybe thanks to it,- Nosferatu / On The Way To... turned out to be a fantas-tic, classic Popol Vuh album. We have added one bonus track previously unreleased in vinyl format.

Werner Herzog: “The music in my films is also very much neglected, if I may interrupt you, in Germany as well. Sin-ce AGUIRRE, my friend Florian Fricke, has done the music for almost all my films - for STEINER, for LA SOUFRIERE, for STROSZEK, and for HEART OF GLASS - and I’ve tried to push very hard so that he would be given the National Film Award this year. They’ve never given it to him, and there has been complete neglect of his work. Not even a single mention! And this year they just by-passed him once again!” [From: Images at the Horizon, 1979]

Popol Vuh has been nominated three times for an Oscar for best original score: 1972 (Aguirre), 1979 (Nosferatu) and 1987 (Cobra Verde).

Collected in a gorgeous limited edition double LP set, first half of the edition issued in transparent red vinyl, are

ARTIST : POPOL VUHTITLE : NOSFERATULABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS161FORMAT : TRANSPARENT RED / BLACK VINYL 2LP + INSERT + POSTER

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the two albums that relate to Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu. Housed in a fantastic silver sleeve with the Klaus Kinski / Isabelle Adjani artwork from the movie poster as used for the 1979 PDU Italian issue. The gatefold cover artwork is completed with graphic material from On The Way To A Little Way plus photos from the movie kindly provided by Werner Herzog himself. A killer 50 x 70 cm full colour re-production of the movie poster is included, as is an insert with detailed liner notes and one bonus track not on the original albums.

It has been master Cut by Lex Van Coeverden @ www.thevinylroom.nl for a high quality sound pressing that will satisfy the most exquisite audiophile.

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CARLOS ALVARADO VIA LÁC-TEAMexican rock had a strong renaissance in the eighties, when most bands, majorly coming from the prog scene, turned to Spanish language again. One of the big acts from that era was Jorge Reyes’ led Chac Mool. Chac Mool counted on its ranks with Carlos Alvarado, who was an accomplished musician on its own and who would record one of the most interesting electronic prog albums of the era, on which Reyes also collaborated. Originally released on mexican private label Momia in 1980.

“Carlos Alvarado’s Via Lactea (Milky Way) is now reissued on vinyl 35 years later. Eurock was especially interested in electronic Cosmic Music exploring both the inner and outer spaces of sound and consciousness. Of all the great music I had heard from Germany’s Klaus Schulze to Tangerine Dream & Spain’s own Neuronium, the album by Carlos stood apart from the rest. In a sense, it combines the best of worlds, celestial sonic exploration and deeply emotional spiritual listening. A concept album, the track titles convey the musical jour-ney Carlos undertaking - The Structure of the Universe, Garden of the Divine Presence, Into the Light, Man in Eternity, Meditation Post Atomic & The Lark and the Virgin.

He employs a vast array of classic electronic instruments - ARP, Korg, Yamaha, synthesizers, Crumar Orchestrator, Mellotron, Piano, Flute & Tapes. The album also features notable guest musicians such as Jorge Reyes and Arturo Meza. The music you encounter upon listening is not easy to describe. Simply listen, close your eyes and imagine your-self in a majestic Holy Shrine. The sound of the earth’s heartbeat is slowly pulsating in different rhythms; solar winds from out of the sky are alternately wafting then gus-ting through the open spaces. In accompaniment, elemen-tal sounds of nature fill the air, comingling with melodies from the cosmic spheres and the warm tones of exotic analogue electronica. All of these elements ultimately al-chemize into an immaculate creation, a galactic symphony of Birth, Life, Death & Eternity. Via Lactea is a masterpiece, fusing the technological magic of early electronic tone colors with the spirits of the ancient ones beautifully. Since 1980, Carlos has continued making music as well as running his own label Momia Records. To date the label has released 12 albums by va-rious groups, as well as projects documenting his various other diverse musical incarnations. Carlos’ latest release in 2013, entitled La Musica de los 7 Chakras, offers yet another transcendent musical listening experience.” Archie Pattersonwww.eurock.com

ARTIST : VIA LÁCTEATITLE : S/TLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS162FORMAT : VINYL LP + INSERT + STICKER

The Wah Wah reissue, made under license from and with the help of Carlos Alvarado himself, comes with remas-tered sound and will include one bonus track not on the original LP. Like the original, it will be housed on a flapped envelope style cover, this time in luxury silk screened metallic copper cardboard. Features a colour insert with photos and notes, plus a bonus Momia sticker based on the one given on the original release. Limited edition, only 500 copies pressed!

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FLUTE & VOICE - IMAGINA-TIONS OF LIGHT + HALLO RABBITFormed by multi-instrumentalists Hans Reffert (‘Flute’) and Hans Brandeis (‘Voice’) in Mannheim in 1969, the Flute & Voice duo discographic debut was issued on Pilz in 1970. It featured a progressive mixture of ethnic influences and accoustic experimentations making it one of the most sought after pieces from krautrock’s most underground scene. Hans Reffert was already considered one of the best guitarists in the Mannheim/Heidelberg area, having played banjo since the age of 12 and then studied with guitar master Siegfriend Schwab, and when he joined for-ces with Hans brandeis the two experimented with various instruments and voices to find their sound. Imaginations Of Light features a wide range of different tools to make a whole sound spectrum that melts psyched out folk with experimental jazz and world music. Flutes and voices, obviously, are joined by different types of guitars (acoustic, electric, dobro...), electric bass and sitar, all performed by the two Hanses, plus cello, violin and moroccan percus-sions courtesy of guest musicians Clemens Schuster (cello), Dorle Ferber and Julia Gallwitz (violins) and Guru Guru’s Mani Neumeier (percussions - Reffert himself pla-yed some years in Guru Guru during the eighties).

Their second album, Hallo RabbitI, originally recorded in 1973, only saw the life as a test pressing that, at the time, was rejected by BASF for release. And so it remained in the vaults until Jack Wieber Records issued it on CD in 1995 as part of a 2 album CD (along with Imaginations Of Light). It shows a progression that some sources have noted to be a more direct and clearly structured sound, but obviously without any concessions to their principles of experimentation in sound, use of different instrumental textures, and their rich ethnic background.

“We were on a continuous search for something “new.” “This guy is cool, he’s got it...” or “That one is uncool...” were the two main criteria for us to distinguish two cate-gories of musicians: the inventive, artistic creators of new sounds and the success-oriented plagiators of “commer-cial” mainstream music. Rarely did we accept other mu-sicians as birds of the same feather, like e.g. the Scottish Incredible String Band or the American Oregon Ensemble – sometimes, but mostly never.” (From Hans Brandeis website)

“It was our goal that all our musical compositions should differ from each other as much as possible. Therefore, we adopted elements and ideas from most diverse music tra-ditions and styles – at that time, just like today, an attitude completely opposed to commercial interests.” (From Hans Brandeis website)

“For special stage performances and recording sessions, musicians from very different lines joined us: soul and jazz saxophone player Thomas Böhmer, the Indian tabla player Bal Kulkarni who also had played with the Beatles some-time, Ron Martin, the black percussion player from the States, cellist and drummer Clemens Schuster and violin player Dorle Ferber, to name just a few.”

“Our approach to music as well as the content of our song lyrics of that time clearly reflected the zeitgeist of the late 1960s: a growing awareness for the social aspects of music and the responsibilities of musicians, hippie values, mind-expansion... Regarding the music, however, we con-sistently fell between all stools: the jazzers would say that our music was rock, the rockers would regard it as jazz; the folk people considered it as avantgarde music, the avantgarde musicians, however, stated that “now – this is really nothing but pure light music,” and for the musical

ARTIST : FLUTE & VOICETITLE : IMAGINATIONS OF LIGHTLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS140FORMAT : LP

entertainers, finally, it was a “noble (but lost) art” – for many a one, our music was just too complicated, for others just too naive... Our concept, therefore, was more a kind of “anti-concept:” not wanting to move from one point to another, but to expand from one point into all directions.” (From Hans Brandeis website)

“Compared to the general standard of central Europe, this is most remarkable” (Volker Kriegel said after hearing the duo play).

Krautrock meets world music, heady psychedelic jazz, ethnic explorations. As you can imagine, the band’s sound is unique and unlike anything else you’ve heard, but it will appeal those into artists such as Magic Carpet, Oriental Sunshine, Saddhu Brand, Mick Softley’s Sunrise LP, Bobby Callender’s Rainbow LP, Sagram, a.o.

Fans of Magic Carpet, King Crimson’s In The Court Of The Crimson King, Third Ear Band, Kalacakra, Oriental Sunshine, Bobby Callender, Clem Alford, Kali Bahlu or the “sitar side” of Popol Vuh will enjoy this one!

The Wah Wah edition is limited to only 500 copies, hou-sed in the original psychedelic gatefold cover originally drawn by Hans Reffert and expanded with the inclusion of their second LP, Hallo Rabbit, issued in vinyl for the first time ever!

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FLUTE & VOICE - DRACHEN-LIEDERFormed by multi-instrumentalists Hans Reffert (‘Flute’) and Hans Brandeis (‘Voice’) in Mannheim in 1969, the Flute & Voice duo discographic debut was issued on Pilz that same year. Their second album was originally recor-ded in 1973, but it remained unreleased for 22 years until Jack Wieber Records issued it on CD in 1995 as part of a 2 album CD (along with Imaginations Of Light) and now available on vinyl LP format through Wah Wah. But some more material was composed in 1974/1975 and recorded, albeit never going further than the demo stage. Those old tapes showed a further evolution from the previous recordings. They had, of course, the same basic concept, but more intrincate structures and technical challenges were taken. When Brandeis and Reffert met in 1995 to prepare the reissue of Flute & Voice plus Hallo Rabbit on CD they rescued these tapes and thought of chosing the best tracks to re-record them in a proffessional studio. This was done between February and June of 1996 and the results conform Drachenlieder, an album that does not pale in comparison with its predecessors, and one that you wouldn’t have thought it was recorded in the nineties if we haven’t told you as it keeps the excitement, feeling and sound of their 70’s recordings.

“We were on a continuous search for something “new.” “This guy is cool, he’s got it...” or “That one is uncool...” were the two main criteria for us to distinguish two cate-gories of musicians: the inventive, artistic creators of new sounds and the suc-cess-oriented plagiators of “commercial” mainstream music. Rarely did we accept other musicians as birds of the same feather, like e.g. the Scottish Incredible String Band or the American Oregon Ensemble – sometimes, but mostly never.” (From Hans Brandeis website)

“It was our goal that all our musical compositions should differ from each other as much as possible. Therefore, we adopted elements and ideas from most diverse music tra-ditions and styles – at that time, just like today, an attitude completely opposed to commercial interests.” (From Hans Brandeis website)

“For special stage performances and recording sessions, musicians from very different lines joined us: soul and jazz saxophone player Thomas Böhmer, the Indian tabla player Bal Kulkarni who also had played with the Beatles some-time, Ron Martin, the black percussion player from the States, cellist and drummer Clemens Schuster and violin player Dorle Ferber, to name just a few.”

“Our approach to music as well as the content of our song lyrics of that time clearly reflected the zeitgeist of the late 1960s: a growing awareness for the social aspects of music and the responsibilities of musicians, hippie va-lues, mind-expansion... Regarding the music, however, we consistently fell between all stools: the jazzers would say that our music was rock, the rockers would regard it as jazz; the folk people considered it as avantgarde music, the avantgarde musicians, however, stated that “now – this is really nothing but pure light music,” and for the musical entertainers, finally, it was a “noble (but lost) art” – for many a one, our music was just too complicated, for others just too naive... Our concept, therefore, was more a kind of “anti-concept:” not wanting to move from one point to another, but to expand from one point into all directions.” (From Hans Brandeis website)

“Compared to the general standard of central Europe, this is most remarkable” (Volker Kriegel said after hearing the duo play).

ARTIST : FLUTE & VOICETITLE : DRACHENLIEDERLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS147FORMAT : LP

Krautrock meets world music, heady psychedelic jazz, ethnic explorations. As you can imagine, the band’s sound is unique and unlike anything else you’ve heard, but it will appeal those into artists such as Magic Carpet, Oriental Sunshine, Saddhu Brand, Mick Softley’s Sunrise LP, Bo-bby Callender’s Rainbow LP, Sagram, a.o.

Fans of Magic Carpet, King Crimson’s In The Court Of The Crimson King, Third Ear Band, Kalacakra, Oriental Sunshi-ne, Bobby Callender, Clem Alford, Kali Bahlu or the “sitar side” of Popol Vuh will enjoy this one!

First ever vinyl release, the Wah Wah edition is limited to only 500 copies housed in a cover drawn by Hans Reffert himself.

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ZWEISTEIN - TRIP · FLIP-OUT · MEDITATIONOriginally released on Philips in 1970, Zweistein’s trippy kraut psych experimental masterpiece gets its first vinyl reissue ever. Even more experimental than Faust, Kraf-twerk or Cluster, their only album was a triple LP housed in a marvelous double gatefold cover, all made in silver & gold cardboard, with the front embossed and featu-ring a small mirror on it. Electronically adventurous, the sounds give you what’s promised in the title in the form of an avantgarde collage produced by Suzanne Doucet -a successful pop singer and TV guest then, and now a fa-mous voice in New Age music- with the help of her sister Diane and sound engineer Peter Kramper, who besides his recognised work as a studio wizard starting with many German beat bands like The Rattles or The Blizzards and later remixing albums by the likes of Hawkwind a.o. He also played synthesizer in some Amon Düül albums an records by other krautrock travellers like Utopia’s 1973’s self titled LP.

At the time Suzanne didn’t want to link the avantgarde experiments collected here with her succesful pop career, so she used a pseudonym and signed the production as Jacques Dorian, while the recordings were issued as being made by a whole band named Zweistein. The

photo you see on the cover of their only 45, here inclu-ded as a bonus, show the Doucet sisters surrounded by friends who where ask to play any instrument they could, be a tambourine, a flute or simply stomp their feet on the ground, on the sessions.

“My sister and myself were huge fans of Einstein (of cour-se) therefore the ZWEISTEIN pseudonym.”

“I was always into recording technology - starting when I was 14 to record songs with my first tape recorder... so I took all the recordings of ZWEISTEIN and transferred and edited them into a “piece” and it became 3 album length pieces. We took those to the studio to my favorite recor-ding engineer Peter Kramper (who was also a producer and recording engineer for Liberty Records, I was signed to until 1970) and added effects and magically appearing sounds that came out of nowhere (you can hear those strange tones on the 3rd album in the beginning and end...) and they did fit perfectly with our 3rd album MEDI-TATION.”

“The 3 albums were called TRIP, FLIP OUT and MEDITA-TION because that was in our opinion the logical evolution our generation was going through. We all had experi-mented with psychadelics and the first album is such a recorded TRIP. As a result many of us went into a psycho-tic state of mind, i.e. FLIP OUT (the world upside down, reverse all concepts and rules were off) and if you ever came out of that your only salvation would be spirituality MEDITATION. Maybe ZWEISTEIN became such a “cult” recording because it reflected the evolution of the mind of a whole generation. And if we accomplished that I would call that art!”

Suzanne Doucet (from “The Making Of Zweistein”, krau-trockgroup.blogspot.com)

The recordings were licensed to Philips, who had already signed Kraftwerk to their catalogue, and it managed to sell a number of copies before it was withdrown. In years to come it would be rediscovered to gather a cult status among collectors and afficionados, with original copies nowadays changing hands for small fortunes.

The Wah Wah reissue has been licensed from Suzane Doucet, comes with remastered sound and will include

ARTIST : ZWEISTEINTITLE : TRIP · FLIP-OUT · MEDITATIONLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS162FORMAT : 3LP + BONUS 7” IN GIMMICK COVER + INSERT

one bonus 7” reissue of their non LP single. Like the ori-ginal, it will be printed over metallic silver & gold embos-sed cardboard, plus comes with an insert with liners and photos. Limited edition, only 500 copies pressed!

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URBAN SAX - URBAN SAX 1Urban Sax was created in 1973. Gilbert Artman, the mastermind behind Lard Free -who has also participa-ted in dozens of recordings by other artists of the French experimental scene that included Delired Chameleon Family, Clear Light, Komintern, etc.- developed an interest in the relation between space and sound. He organised a first experiment that took place in the town of Menton, in the South of France. Artman strategically placed 18 saxophonists, and their sound reverberated through all the village. As time went by the band increased and currently their performances count with up to 34 saxophonists, 1 bass player, 3 percussionists, 2 dancers and 8 vocalists, with a line up that varies depending on each particular project. You can find saxophonists playing over rooftops, or climbing down buildings or arriving in helicopters. It is a fascinating experience that can be hardly translated to vinyl, but through the years they have recorded some of their music and here we are proud to offer vinyl reissues of those works, including one previously released on vinyl format!

Urban Sax’s debut LP was issued in 1977 on Cézanne / Cobra. It is the soundtrack of Urban Sax first architectural sound shows, but also a splendid work on its own, with a similar sense of musical experimentation and adventure to that of La Monte Young, Phil Niblock, Glenn Branca,

Steve Reich, Terry Riley, a.o. Urban Sax’s music is cons-tructed over the concept of “”continuous sound”, around which build and develop poly-rhythmic loops, modulated and nested in a partition and a principle of “distant sound” allowing to question the listening audience. It is about linking audio and visual performances. The music is semi repetitive, with evolving pieces of different colors. Entire saxophone family is represented: sopranos, altos, tenors and bass baritones...” (Wikipedia).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nYM_UyxIpYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizC7KjXD4I#t=48

16 saxophone players gathered to record the 1st Urban Sax LP, after several years of touring festivals and outdoor venues. They were perhaps reluctant to actually record their music events, hence reducing the spatial effects of musicians playing around and above the audience. I assu-me Gilbert Artman had to make compromizes to re-create the Urban Sax magic in studio, using studio trickeries and sound effects. For example, the extremely low rumbles on track #1 sound like slowed down, processed saxophone recordings. The music is not only live performance, then, but partly composed in the studio. Vocals starting 14:00 on side one add the pseudo-primitive, typical Urban Sax mood. The music gets uncompromizingly repetitive on side two, where a 5 notes loop on soprano saxophone (starting 3:45) is played endlessly to mesmerizing effects, on a background of sustained low notes by the 8 tenor players. The effect is hypnotic, and these enchanting

ARTIST : URBAN SAXTITLE : URBAN SAX 1LABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS152FORMAT : VINYL LP + INSERT

sounds could go on for ever. This is where Urban Sax gets closer to LaMonte Young, and have been compared to Rhys Chatham or Glen Branca on saxophones. ‘Urban Sax 2′, part III, is available on this WFMU’s post. From continuo.wordpress.com

The Wah Wah reissue reproduces the original sleeve ar-twork, comes in remastered sound and lacquer cut by Lex Van Coeverdeen @ The Vinyl Room for improved perfor-mance and features a booklet with photos and liner notes written by Gilbert Artman himself.

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URBAN SAX-URBAN SAX 2Urban Sax was created in 1973. Gilbert Artman, the mastermind behind Lard Free -who has also participated in dozens of recordings by other artists of the French experimental scene that included Delired Cha-meleon Family, Clear Light, Komintern, etc.- developed an interest in the relation between space and sound. He orga-nised a first experiment that took place in the town of Men-ton, in the South of France. Artman strategically placed 18 saxophonists, and their sound reverberated through all the village. As time went by the band increased and currently their performances count with up to 34 saxophonists, 1 bass player, 3 percussionists, 2 dancers and 8 vocalists, with a line up that varies depen-ding on each particular project. You can find saxophonists playing over rooftops, or climbing down buil-dings or arriving in helicopters. It is a fascinating experience that can be hardly translated to vinyl, but through the years they have recorded some of their music and here we are proud to offer vinyl reissues of those works, including one previously released on vinyl format!

Urban Sax’s music is constructed over the concept of “”con-tinuous sound”, around which build and develop poly-rhyth-mic loops, modulated and nested in a partition and a principle of “distant sound” allowing to ques-tion the listening audience. It is about linking audio and visual

performances. The music is semi repetitive, with evolving pieces of different colors. Entire saxophone family is re-presented: sopranos, altos, tenors and bass baritones...” (Wikipedia).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nYM_UyxIpYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizC7KjXD4I#t=48

1978’s Urban Sax 2, also on Cézanne / Cobra, is the con-tinuation of their debut work. Actually it features parts 2 and 3 of the pieces contained on 1, again similarities with works by La Monte Young, Phil Niblock, Glenn Branca, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, a.o. are present, and it’s the per-fect companion to 1 as it is, basically, part two of that first album.

The Wah Wah reissue reproduces the original sleeve ar-twork, comes in remastered sound and lacquer cut by Lex Van Coeverdeen @ The Vinyl Room for improved perfor-mance and features a booklet with photos and liner notes written by Gilbert Artman himself.

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URBAN SAX - FRACTION SUR LE TEMPSUrban Sax was created in 1973. Gilbert Artman, the mastermind behind Lard Free -who has also participa-ted in dozens of recordings by other artists of the French experimental scene that included Delired Chameleon Family, Clear Light, Komintern, etc.- developed an interest in the relation between space and sound. He organised a first experiment that took place in the town of Menton, in the South of France. Artman strategically placed 18 saxophonists, and their sound reverberated through all the village. As time went by the band increased and currently their performances count with up to 34 saxophonists, 1 bass player, 3 percussionists, 2 dancers and 8 vocalists, with a line up that varies depending on each particular project. You can find saxophonists playing over rooftops, or climbing down buildings or arriving in helicopters. It is a fascinating experience that can be hardly translated to vinyl, but through the years they have recorded some of their music and here we are proud to offer vinyl reissues of those works, including one previously released on vinyl format!

Urban Sax’s music is constructed over the concept of “”continuous sound”, around which build and develop poly-rhythmic loops, modulated and nested in a partition

and a principle of “distant sound” allowing to question the listening audience. It is about linking audio and visual performances. The music is semi repetitive, with evolving pieces of different colors. Entire saxophone family is re-presented: sopranos, altos, tenors and bass baritones...” (Wikipedia).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nYM_UyxIpYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizC7KjXD4I#t=48

“This is some amazing shit right hyah, folks. Imagine something like, say, a concert band playing outtakes from Magma’s “Theusz Hamtaahk” trilogy. You’d possibly arrive at this.” (...) “Everything starts with this massive (and I mean it...we’re basically talking about something the size of an orchestra here) wash of sound, like something dro-pped wholesale out of the trippier parts of Ligeti’s material in the “2001” soundtrack. Then we get swept into the primal repetition of a simple motif...very Magma-like, save for the obvious difference in forces. As the proceedings go on, it gets more complex; another wash, and then into another primal minimalist cycling with strange, otherworld-ly drones and choral voices in the background, chuffing percussion...and then a drift off into Ligeti-land again, with chanting vocals following, and huge gusts of wind from the sax players breathing thru their horns as some sort of Saturnian Sun Ra lullabye starts to course throu-gh the group. And that’s just the first half. This is some potent stuff. It’s very much ‘ritual music’, as one would expect with it being composed for Urban Sax’s ritualistic performances. And it’s quite trippy, especially for some-thing largely acoustic (although there are four presumably electric guitars in the forces) with little electronic tinkerage to enhance the strangeness.” (...) “There are some other recordings in Urban Sax’s catalog, but this is perhaps the most amazing, most trippy of them all.” Extracts from a review by Lugia from Julian Cope’s Head Heritage website

Fraction sur le temps was originally released in 1986 on Celluloïd.

The Wah Wah reissue reproduces the original sleeve ar-twork, comes in remastered sound and lacquer cut by Lex Van Coeverdeen @ The Vinyl Room for improved perfor-mance and features a booklet with photos and liner notes written by Gilbert Artman himself.

ARTIST : URBAN SAXTITLE : FRACTION SUR LE TEMPSLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS154FORMAT : VINYL LP + INSERT

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URBAN SAX - SPIRALUrban Sax was created in 1973. Gilbert Artman, the mastermind behind Lard Free -who has also participa-ted in dozens of recordings by other artists of the French experimental scene that included Delired Chameleon Family, Clear Light, Komintern, etc.- developed an interest in the relation between space and sound. He organised a first experiment that took place in the town of Menton, in the South of France. Artman strategically placed 18 saxophonists, and their sound reverberated through all the village. As time went by the band increased and currently their performances count with up to 34 saxophonists, 1 bass player, 3 percussionists, 2 dancers and 8 vocalists, with a line up that varies depending on each particular project. You can find saxophonists playing over rooftops, or climbing down buildings or arriving in helicopters. It is a fascinating experience that can be hardly translated to vinyl, but through the years they have recorded some of their music and here we are proud to offer vinyl reissues of those works, including one previously released on vinyl format!

Urban Sax’s music is constructed over the concept of “”continuous sound”, around which build and develop poly-rhythmic loops, modulated and nested in a partition and a principle of “distant sound” allowing to question the listening audience. It is about linking audio and visual

performances. The music is semi repetitive, with evolving pieces of different colors. Entire saxophone family is re-presented: sopranos, altos, tenors and bass baritones...” (Wikipedia).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nYM_UyxIpYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizC7KjXD4I#t=48

1991’s Spiral makes its first ever appearance on vinyl format here. Previously it had only been available on CD, originally released on the EPM Musique label.

The Wah Wah reissue comes in remastered sound and lacquer cut by Lex Van Coeverdeen @ The Vinyl Room for improved performance and features a booklet with photos and liner notes written by Gilbert Artman himself.

ARTIST : URBAN SAXTITLE : SPIRALLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS155FORMAT : VINYL LP + INSERT

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THE SPOILS OF WAR (2LP + BONUS 7” EP)After the successful reissues of the two Mormos albums on Wah Wah, we proudly present a fantastic double LP + bonus 7” EP with the works of Jim Cuomo’s pre-Mor-mos band Spoils Of War. Jim had already served with instro-rockers The Cool Notes in Texas, along with future Big Brother & The Holding Co. founder and guitarist Sam Houston Andrew III when he moved to the University of Illi-nois to obtain his Master Degree in Music. It was in Illinois where The Spoils Of War were born in 1968, named after a musical instrument invented by Harry Partch - it’s name coming from the fact it had actually been built from spent artillery shells. Alongside Jim, other members included Al Ierardi on guitar, Roger Francisco on bass, Frank Garvey on drums and James Stround on “live sound manipula-tion.” Annie Hat would soon join on vocals, and last gigs were played with Charlie Braugham on drums.

The S.O.W. sound was an intelligent mixture of late sixties acid psych with electronic experimentation -in a similar way to what Joe Byrd was producing with The United Sta-tes Of America or Cork Marcheski would explore with 50 Foot Hose- plus there’s some very imaginative songs here that could put the band in the same league Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention were playing. Exciting com-

puter generated sounds mix into a cool psychedelic rock background. It is one of the early pioneering experiments of electronic music and drones on a rock band, made at a time when programming computer sounds was really an adventure, since electronic music was still a burgeoning phenomenon. The box that had been opened by the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio a.o. left a lot of things for Cuomo and his peers to explore - and they were not afraid of doing so!

Back in the day the Spoils Of War had little chances to pu-blish their recordings. Only two small 33RPM 7” EPs were released, showcasing their talent and adventurous love for experimentation

Here are -collected in a gorgeous 2LP set compiled with the great cooperation of Jim Cuomo himself- their studio works, including previously unreleased recordings, some later work by Cuomo and Co. plus a bonus 7” reproduc-tion of the first Spoils Of War original self-produced EP from 1969.

Reissued in a 500 copies limited edition double LP housed in a gatefold gimmick sleeve with inner pop-up, fratures a bonus 7” EP, a Spoils Of War sticker, comes with remaste-red sound and includes an insert with liner notes courtsey of Jim Cuomo himself and Klemen Breznikar (psychedelic-baby.blogspot.com), plus full colour photos.

ARTIST: THE SPOILS OF WARTITLE : S/TLABEL : WAH WAH RECORDS SUPERSONIC SOUNDSCATALOGUE NUMBER : LPS138FORMAT : 2LP + 7”

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