Asmus Tietchens - Aus Freude am Elend (LP, Dom America)

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Asmus Tietchens - Aus Freude am Elend (LP, Dom America 1988)

This LP looks practally new – it’s been played only once or twice by me - - i bought it new many years ago - it has better than normal usage and storage wear - The inner record sleeve has been upgraded to a polylined paper sleeve and there is a inner LP jacket inserted  – corners are all sharp - front cover is free of any ring wear, or grim, and looks perfect (there are some water marks if you look at it in just the right angle – the back cover is the same as front, except  (some barely noticably bubbling from the glue?) –  it is only fine+, because it is used - looks new - The album has been stored and will ship in a 4 mil polyethylene record jacket sleeve - Overall this is a very nice EXTREMLY RARE – vinyl looks fine+ - really clean - I have not played this in years. It has been stored indoors in a pet and smoke free home. Pictures are of the actual album – sorry, the back cover didn’t photograph very well

Label:               Dom America

Catalog#:          DOM US LP 02

Format:            Vinyl, LP

Country:           US

Released:          1988

Genre:              Electronic

Style:                Noise, Experimental, Industrial

Credits:            Music By - Asmus Tietchens

Producer:         Okko Bekker

Notes:  Recorded in Audiplex Studios, Hamburg.

Edition of 600 copies.

The label gives a copyright date of 1987, however the LP was not published until the following year.

Asmus Tietchens on AUS FREUDE AM ELEND:

    "Following my research of piano and water sounds (DS102, DS88) it didn't come as a surprise that my next project was about the human voice as a sound source. The great masters of Plunderphonics already showed the way in the early 80's, when they plundered the gigantic junk-shops packed full of already recorded material, which was stolen by them to use it for their own aesthetic targets. This album only consists of such stolen goods. Each track (with the exception of "In memoriam P.F.") was based on voices of people who I naturally didn't ask their permission to use these recordings in the first place. So you can hear the voices of ecstatic religious people as well as other people making love. You'll also hear someone singing to Annette and Peggy out of the trash bin of a publishing company. Even the screams of furious teachers came in handy while I made loops from them.

    Especially loops: Rarely before this album and only once after it (on Stupor Mundi) did I made use of the structural means of loops to such an extent. I was fascinated by the rhythmical and harmonic permanence, in the same way as many of my musical colleagues at the time. The aspect of the "Ritual" was a self-evident common formulation in difficult music during the 80s, so loops and tape voices, monotonous rhythms and LoFi became obvious means to shape the music. AUS FREUDE AM ELEND too was strongly spiced with these ingredients and therefore can be seen as a prototype album of this specific view of music during the time. This tendency was supported - even partly inspired - by a new generation of sound machines, which also made it possible for new aesthetic goals to appear at the horizon. The 90s were near at hand and sound art music would develop drastically in many ways in the years to follow. Samplers, digital editing, hard-disc recording and the first PC's opened new doorways. Half of the material on AUS FREUDE AM ELEND was already created with these digital tools.

    I never quite understood how the labels Dom America (run by Jon Carlson) and Dom here in Germany were connected. Did Carlson used to be a fan of Dom which was founded by Christoph Heemann and Achim Flaam. Did he simply liked the release politics of this label. And what became of Dom America ? Actually I don't know. I guess it was one of the small enthusiastic independent labels which released a handful of titles and which disappeared after being active for a couple of years during the 80s. However AUS FREUDE AM ELEND had vanished shortly after its release. I only used 'stolen' voices twice again ("Stupor Mundi", 1990 and "Das Fest ist zu Ende. Aus", 1993) after this album, by the way.

Tracklisting:

A1                   Den Stiftsherren (4:54)

A2                   Negus (5:18)

A3                   Rosenkranz (8:31)

B1                    In Memoriam P.F. (1:40)

B2                    Niederlage (3:15)

B3                    Paranoide Reflexe (4:56)

B4                    Nachbarschaft Und Zeugung (3:14)

B5                    Weiter Nicht (7:00)

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