CD edition in 12" hard box released by Auf Abwegen. Press-kit: Tarpenbek is the realization of a project that has been long in the making and planning. It all started with a series of etchings by Rolf Zander that he made in the 1970ies. These etchings deal with the structures and topographical features of the small north german river “Tarpenbek”. The series of images is very reduced minimal and interwoven with textures on the original material. Tietchens took each of these etchings as a starting point for a musical composition, taking ideas about structure and layers from the images. Ony in one instance field recordings from the riverbanks of the Tarpenbek were incorporated. At most instances the music is as minimal as the visual works. Full of details and small surprising turns.
Work on the composition began as early as 1979. A rough sketch of these first steps utilizing analogue rhythm machine and Minimoog is included as the bonus track on this disc. It became obvious that "Grünschattiger Nachmittag" was impossible to realize on the Fairlight CMI. It took nine years for the equipment at Audiplex Studios to match the technical...
"Eine Menge Papier" assembles 20 minutes of sounds derived from using paper as the sound souce. Two tracks originally came out as a limited 7" record on the austrian Syntactic label in the 1990ies and appear here for the first time on CD.
There's yet another, third name, I won't reveal. The final words on the LP are: 'My friends'. For piety reasons I won't explain the original context of the voice, nor reveal the identity of the woman, who speaks these words. Besides, it's a damn long time ago anyway, and mystifications were no longer a part of my repertoire after 'Stupor Mundi'.
CD edition in 12" hard box released by Auf Abwegen.
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