Hát Või Quê Húóng was a one time project of Holger Hiller and Walter Thielsch (both: Palais Schaumburg) with three Vietnamese refugees singing traditional songs.
Walter Thielsch died January 13th 2011 at age 60 in Hamburg.



Side one:
1 Hát Või Quê Húóng [3:12]

Side two:
1 Saigon Ðep Lăm [2:16]
2 Trông Cóm [3:23]

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Nick Cave's second live guest appearance with Die Haut (line-up: Christoph Dreher, Remo Park, Martin Peter & Thomas Wydler). They perform songs from the "Burnin' The Ice" album recorded in Aachen in December 1982. Nick Cave vocals on Stow-a-way.


Photo: Leo Van Velzen (used without permission, but I hope Leo doesn't mind)

The Victory [3:23]
Stow-a-way [7:54]

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Kowalski was a band from Wuppertal.
Uwe Fellensiek: vocals
Hans Bäär (aka Hans Maahn): bass
Rüdiger Braune: drums
Rüdiger Elze (aka LC): guitar
They made one lp: Schlagende Wetter
Kowalski is the second most common surname in Poland. It translates to blacksmith were it is the patronymic form of the name for Smith (wikipedia).

I ran out of tape, so the last song is not complete.


2 3/4 songs 13'40"

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Helmut Brandenburg was conductor of the Rias-Tanzorchester around 1971. Rias stands for Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor. Under the name of Brandenburg Big Band they made this popular classic album, in a kind of Ekseption/Waldo de Los Rios style, with additional use of some electronics.



Side one:
1 Hallelujah aus dem Messias (Händel)
2 Largo aus dem Cembalo-Konzert Nr. 5 f-moll (Bach)
3 Habanera aus Carmen (Bizet)
4 cis moll Sonate (Mondschein, Beethoven)
5 Alla Turka (türkischer March, Mozart)
6 Sinfonie in g-moll, 1. Satz (Mozart)

Side two:
1 Toccata und Fuge in d-moll (Bach)
2 Sinfonie in c-moll, 1. Satz (Beethoven)
3 Zigeunertanz aus Carmen (Bizet)
4 Schwanensee (Tschaikowsky)
5 4. Sinfonie, 1. Satz (Brahms)
6 Beat At The Philharmonic (Xanten-Sekura)

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Who is this guy?
Where did he play?
Why?



I have this recording on cassette tape, taken from a Dutch compilation lp Laugh Story (EMI 5 C050 24921). Also appearing on that record: Stan Freberg, the Master Singers and Mrs Miller.
I think he's Dutch, but he's mad enough to be Belgium and bad enough to come from anywhere.
André van Duin used this tune several times pretending it was played by Pieter van Vollenhoven, piano playing prince of the Netherlands.

Anybody knows more? Please mail me.

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On this mini lp, Jah Wobble works again with Holger Czukay (Can). He did that before in 1981 on the excellent 12" How Much Are They? Also available on the Full Circle cd.
The Edge (U2) performs slide guitar on Snake Charmer and lead guitar and atmospherics on Hold On to Your Dreams. This was a one time collaboration.



Side one:
1 Snake charmer [6:09]
2 Hold on to your dreams [8:21]

Side two:
1 It was a camel [5:26]
2 Sleazy [3:43]
3 Snake charmer (reprise) [6:49]

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Wolfgang Düren became more widely known to people as the chairman of Waldorf Music. Before founding Waldorf Music he partnered with Wolfgang Palm, the man behind PPG, and distributed his synths in the late seventies till the fall of PPG in the mid eighties. Later Wolfgang distributed the synths of Waldorf, Access and Novation with his company TSI.
While he was distributing or later in charge of building synths, he was also a musician. In the late seventies he recorded the LP "Eyeless Dream". This record featured many sounds of the early PPG wavetable synths that just have had become available to some musicians searching for a new kind of sound beyond the conventional synth sounds using filters and modulations as main building blocks to shape their sound. These very new sounds in electronic music made this LP an insiders favourite over the years. Today this rare LP is of cause not available anymore. (dueren.waldorfian.info)




Thanks to some Waldorfian's MP3 encoding of the LP and Wolfgang Düren's kind permission, these tracks are now available for free as 208 kBit/s variable bit rate mp3s.

Side one:
1 Eyeless Dream I [8:19]
2 Phila [9:51]

Side two:
1 904 [5:43]
2 Proton [9:19]
3 Eyeless Dream II [5:47 ]

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