Ear Mail. 1980 Transmitter (MC)
Hausmusik features an all-star lineup of Ingo Bischof (Karthago, Guru Guru, Kraan), Butze Fischer (Embryo, Missus Beastly, Moira, Guru Guru), Roland Schaeffer (Fashion Pink, Brainstrom, Guru Guru), Gerald Luciano (Guru Guru, Embryo), and Jan Fride (Kraan, Guru Guru). It would appear Guru Guru is the glue on this one. Given the pedigree, one would think more buzz would surround it.
Ear Mail is a fascinating album that contains a fusion of Eastern/Asiatic music, jazz, and rock. The album is filled with lengthy improvisations that would have benefited from a nice editing, though it's still a pleasant listen. Musically Ear Mail ties closest to the Embryo offshoot group Sadja (yet another cassette only band that time forgot), though there are more rock elements presented here.
It must be said that Ear Mail is not the best recording in the world, and one wonders if it was ever intended for mass release. This was an old AC discovery, one of many great finds he dug up.
As I update this post, the cassette still is not listed in Discogs.
Priority: 3
1/23/11 (new entry); 2/1/20
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