Beschreibung
The two founding fathers of Neuntage Alt, René Glofke and Taymur Streng (nicknamed “Strangler”), knew each other from the East Berlin punk scene. The third man aboard, Mike Sauer, played drums in the early 1980s for Sendeschluß, a punk band that, lost in thought somewhere in the no-man’s land between punk and post-punk, faded away in 1984. Punk was no longer the order of the day, but it was a form of expression among many and easy to combine. Glofke and Streng found common ground in experimental set-ups with such other-worldly names as Medusa Brahma or Die zeitweilige Erscheinung. From this far-flung point of departure, a short tunnel led straight into the black light of Neuntage Alt, the coldest star in the low… more
credits
Taymur Streng – vocals, keyboards
René Glofke – vocals, keyboards
Mike Sauer – vocals, keyboards
Ingo Sauer – bassguitar
Sebastian Lange – guitar
Mixed by Joggy Müller & Ingo Sauer at Taymur‘s Studio 1989
Tape cover artwork by René Glofke
Vinyl cover artwork by art.wien & tapetopia
Music by Neuntage
Lyrics by
James Joyce – A1, A3, A6, B5 Wallace Stevens – A2
Dylan Thomas – A4, B4
John Foxx – A5
Robert Smith – B1 (excerpt), B2 Chistopher Cranch – B3
Liner notes and texts by Henryk Gericke
tapetopia is edited by Henryk Gericke
Remastered by Black Flag Mastering
The tape was slightly shortened for the vinyl.
Full length tape digitially distributed via www.aufnahmeundwiedergabe.de.
Thanks to
André Hytry & Marco Limberg for live visuals, Mike Buller, Volker Döring, Bo Kondren, Jörg „Joggy“ Müller, Ingo Sauer, Lutz Schramm Sarah M. Baumann, Ralph Gabriel, Friedemann Kootz, Stefan Widdess