KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BAR : Asylum Lunaticum

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Format: CD [INT033]
Shipping Weight: 0.1lbs
Label: Intransitive

1,980円

'Intimate, absurd, feral and aggressive in its homemade weirdness, the music of Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Br has been a well-kept secret for too long. Hjuler & Br have self-published their dada-esque sound poetry experiments on small-edition lathe-cut LPs, tapes, and CDRs for years, usually adorning them with elaborate junk sculptures and paintings. Intransitive is proud to collect their best recordings so far onto a single, widely available CD so that anyone can hear the music without making a major financial investment. The husband and wife duo uses deceptively simple means - typically just their voices, a cassette-tape recorder and a microphone - to create astonishing suburban dramas that are somehow both sweetly charming and staggeringly psychotic, sometimes at the same time. Join Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Br as they perform acts of banal heroics, like exploring the basement taking their son for a bicycle ride walking with a red shirt into a field of cattle pondering reforms made to the Danish police system all viewed through the unhinged lens. Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Br are painters, sculptors, film-makers, and musicians based in Flensberg, Germany, near the Danish border. Their artwork has been exhibited in galleries and at festivals around the world. They collaborated with like-minded artists such as Thurston Moore, Arnulf Meifert, John Weise, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Jan Iwers, and Af Ursin, among many others.'

1 Hjuler - HJCV Grimmelhausen 8:59
2 Mama Bar - Lichtblicke 6:42
3 Mama Bar - Ehrfurcht 25:17
4 Hjuler Meine - Erste Zeitmachine 13:00
5 Hjuler De Nye - Rigspolitichefen 10:37
6 Hjuler - Lauf In Eine Herde 1:13
7 Mama Bar - Asylum Lunaticum 8:33

Compiled By Howard Stelzer
Design Mike Shiflet
Music By, Artwork Kommissar Hjuler, Mama Bar

All music by Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Bar, compiled by Howard Stelzer from art edition CDrs and hand-cut vinyl originally published by Der Shoene-Hjuler-Memorial-Fond.