HARTMUT GEERKEN/MICHAEL RANTA- The Heliopolar egg, 1976 (QBICO 101) 5 + one-sided LP box (b&w) with 3 inserts (photos, rec. details, instruments played), black vinyls
Hartmut Geerken
piano, prepared piano, piano strings, tibetan tingshak, water tingshak, waldteufel, mokkatam pot rattles, bells, water bells, sleigh bells, gongs, water gongs, tibetan boo-chals, water boo-chals,
musical clock, tibetan horn, singing tube, maracas, wood block, temple blocks, peking opera gongs, castagnets, lead camel bell, short-wave receiver, swarmandal, whistles,
argool, monkey drum, toy xylophone, lion bell, gopichand, egyptian cymbals & sagat, waterphone, voice, toy glockenspiele, thumb piano
Michael Ranta
mallet instruments (xylophone, marimba, metallophone, vibraphone), tabla, flexatone, castagnets, japanese oboe, argool, gongs, tamtams,
short-wave receiver, chinese violin (er-hu, jung-hu), wood block, echo machine, cup bells, indian israj, vco, vcf, vocals
LP 1 (one-sided) rec. November 25; Baghe Ferdows-Zafaranieh
in co-op with NIRT, Teheran, Iran
LP 2 rec. December 3/4; Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta, India
LP 3 rec. December 8; German Cultural Institute
in co-op with the Academy of the Arts, Dacca, Bangladesh
LP 4 rec. December 13; Abelardo Inner Green (open air)
in co-op with U.P. College of Music, Manila, Philippines
special guest: Josè "Pepito" Bosch- congas
LP 5 rec. December 15; Korea Drama Center, Seoul, Korea
LP 6 rec. December 18; Goethe-Institute, Osaka, Japan
a1 excerpt from Toshi Ichiyanagi "arrangements"
a2 Shoko Shida "lonely mountain"
b1 "same trains"
b2 "coda" special guest: Toshi Ichiyanagi- synthesizer
Hartmut Geerken
piano, prepared piano, piano strings, tibetan tingshak, water tingshak, waldteufel, mokkatam pot rattles, bells, water bells, sleigh bells, gongs, water gongs, tibetan boo-chals, water boo-chals,
musical clock, tibetan horn, singing tube, maracas, wood block, temple blocks, peking opera gongs, castagnets, lead camel bell, short-wave receiver, swarmandal, whistles,
argool, monkey drum, toy xylophone, lion bell, gopichand, egyptian cymbals & sagat, waterphone, voice, toy glockenspiele, thumb piano
Michael Ranta
mallet instruments (xylophone, marimba, metallophone, vibraphone), tabla, flexatone, castagnets, japanese oboe, argool, gongs, tamtams,
short-wave receiver, chinese violin (er-hu, jung-hu), wood block, echo machine, cup bells, indian israj, vco, vcf, vocals
LP 1 (one-sided) rec. November 25; Baghe Ferdows-Zafaranieh
in co-op with NIRT, Teheran, Iran
LP 2 rec. December 3/4; Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta, India
LP 3 rec. December 8; German Cultural Institute
in co-op with the Academy of the Arts, Dacca, Bangladesh
LP 4 rec. December 13; Abelardo Inner Green (open air)
in co-op with U.P. College of Music, Manila, Philippines
special guest: Josè "Pepito" Bosch- congas
LP 5 rec. December 15; Korea Drama Center, Seoul, Korea
LP 6 rec. December 18; Goethe-Institute, Osaka, Japan
a1 excerpt from Toshi Ichiyanagi "arrangements"
a2 Shoko Shida "lonely mountain"
b1 "same trains"
b2 "coda" special guest: Toshi Ichiyanagi- synthesizer