CHRISTOPH HEEMAN / JIM O'ROURKE / LEE RANALDO
Bloomington, Indiana ... Autumn
(Streamline) Used LP $12.00
Two side-long pieces from the early ’90s released here for the first time in 2010. Ranaldo lends the voice and words of “Bloomington, Indiana” to O’Rourke and Heemann for a text-based collaborative electro-acoustic composition on one side, backed with a Heemann / O’Rourke piece from the Plastic Palace People era. Sealed
CHRISTOPH HEEMAN / ANDREAS MARTIN
Lebenserinnerungen Eines Lepidopterologen
(Robot - RR20) Used 2xCD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A retrospective look at their early solo works, which move between minimalist guitar compositions, tape-music narratives, and cascading electronics. Includes Martin’s Doppelpunkt Vor Ort ten-inch (Robot Records 1993) and Heemann’s Über Den Umgang Mit Umgebung Und Andere Versuche ten-inch (Robot Records 1991), previously unreleased material, obscure seven-inch tracks, and their collaborative H.N.A.S. opus from Ach, Dieser Bart! LP (KK Records 1988). This is the 2010 edition, with two additional tracks not on Robot’s 1999 edition.
Sleeper Awakes On The Edge Of The Abyss
(Streamline) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The CD was originally released in 1993 and has just now been reissued by Streamline Germany. “Heemann restrains and refines Akita’s normally brutal noise and adds his own collage of sounds,” explains Brainwashed. “Drones, washes, electronics and samples (such as metals and chirping birds). Heemann truly paints with sound and here the Merzbow material is just another shade of audio color for his abstract and impressionist palette. He then shapes it all into five pieces, each with a particular character all its own…. [U]tterly beautiful. Hypnotic passages of waterfall wash, layered electronic drone, metallic churnings, gurgling static and deep ambiance perfectly flow into one another.” From 1993