Manuel Goettsching - DREAM & DESIRE

DREAM & DESIRE (2019 REISSUE)(CD+STICKER)

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CD, RE Edition 2019,Sticker Carefully Re Edited Legendary 1977 Studio Recording for RIAS Berlin Includes Bonus Track: Despair, And hardly noticed by the mainstream public, some West-Berlin musicians develop a world of sound, which later eventually became labelled as Electronic Music

DREAM & DESIRE

Notes to a friend…



The 1970s. The Vietnam War is slowly coming to an end; the RAF thrives and prospers; the first Achtundsechziger ('68 protestors) are actually planning to march through the institutions; rock and roll is getting heavier;

and hardly noticed by the mainstream public, some West-Berlin musicians develop a world of sound, which later eventually became labelled as “Electronic Music”.



Indeed, there was nothing electronically generated initially, let alone even digital. In the beginning they simply named these sound-mixtures "electro-acoustic". These compositions of slowly evolving soundscapes relating to the Minimal Music concept created a meditative mood.

This was new. This was the Berliner Schule (Berlin school).



Being responsible for popular music at a radio station in the 1970s was an absolute dream job. At least that’s what it was like at RIAS Berlin (Radio In the American Sector). There was no quota, no pressure, no hit-terror, and we just invited the artists, bands and musicians we liked to the studio. The artists from next door. That’s how I got to know Manuel.



He was living right on the Ku-Damm (Kurfürstendamm), right in the city centre, but in the rear building, shielded from the noise. Manu didn’t have a sequencer. Everything that sounded like a sequencer was his highly focused guitar work. The slowly changing tone sequences for example. This was a physical accomplishment in itself.



His minimalistic play is still part of his signature style.



The musicians from Berlin, who worked in the same genre, were either friends, periodically played in Manuel’s ASH RA TEMPEL, or built up their own careers.



The scene was small, but equipped with illustrious celebrities



- Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Harald Grosskopf, Agitation Free.



And my RIAS colleague Walter Bachauer. He had called the Metamusik Festival into life and brought the international avant-garde to Berlin
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