HARTMUT GEERKEN - orpheus LP Dark Ambient Announcing the first new recordings

Announcing the first new recordings by Godspeed You

punctuated by vivid emotional peaks

they reached graduate levels in merchandising

Recorded 2016-2019 in Los Angeles

When the extremists took over his hometown

HARTMUT GEERKEN - orpheus LP Dark Ambient Announcing the first new recordingsFantastic sound poetry piece by Hartmut Geerken restringing the Sun Harp, the Ukranian bandura that Sun Ra gave him in 1971 when he visited Egypt for the first time. The acoustics of his manual workings emerge without any esthetic intention: the bandura's voluminous resonating body forms the reverb of the room. Each manual action and each contact of the tuning key with the wooden body is 'reverbed'. The instrument creates its audio space. A mythic