Orakel / Tiefe by Peter Frohmader

A classic tape of Peter's, it was originally intended as an LP release on Up Art label (same label as L.S. Bearforce) but that never happened, and it would have been lost to the world hadn't Auricle got the rights from Peter.
We discovered Peter with Nekropolis "Musik Aus Dem Schattenrich" in 1982. What a discovery, a dark and brooding, menacing electronic rock album fusing primordial Krautrock underground with elements of Zeuhl and industrial music. Hooked, we had to investigate and see if he'd done anything else. Meanwhile we discovered Nekropolis 2 (an even more out-there Zeuhlian hybrid) and eventually we got a reply from Peter, with a history, artworks, etc.
This was the very first release of Peter Frohmader in extended electronic mode, with just two big sprawling works, at the darker end of melodic, scuttly, bubbly, biomechanical, oozing invention growing out of the mire onto Krautrock in parts of side A's "Orakel" with then stalwarts of many a Frohmader release Stephan Manus with his cosmic electric violin and Rudi Haunreiter chunkying the music with some Krautrock fire. Tiefe aptly goes deeper and darker, and gets unnervingly haunting in parts. It's the type of music he composed for the film "Alien" (but the Hollywood bigwigs found it too bizarre) and you could easily picture it with that film!

Tracklist

1.	Orakel (Oracle)	22:14

2.	Tiefe (Depth)	22:09

Credits

released November 29, 2018

1. Orakel (Oracle) 22'12"
a visionary flight into other-worldly realms,
vividly portrayed on synthesizers, violin and drums.

2. Tiefe (Depth) 22'07"
a mysterious sonic painting, beautifully crafted
using a wide range of descriptive sound colours.

Recorded at Nekropolis Studio, Munich in 1983.
30th anniversary reissue of the legendary Peter Frohmader (Nekropolis) cassette.
Special remastered limited edition © Oct 2014.

Peter Frohmader: synths, gongs, kettledrum.
+ Rudi Haunreiter: drums & Stephan Manus: violins on "Orakel".

Originally a cassette (various editions) - 160 copies approx - released ?/2/1986.
First CDR edition of 20 numbered copies - released 13/10/2014.
Second CDR edition of 20 numbered copies (21-40) - released 6/1/2016.
CDR (Cosmic Egg UTCE 010 CDR) © 2014 44'21"
DL (Cosmic Egg UTCE 010 DL) © 2018

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