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Camera Obscura - The First Journey

by Michael Peters

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Previously unpublished first recording of the German krautrock-ambient group Camera Obscura.

In 1983, the three musicians lived together in a beautiful half-timbered house in the countryside east of Cologne. They recorded this music in their little basement studio on a four-track tape machine.

Later that year, the trio went into Matthias Becker's Originalton West label in Cologne to recreate this music under studio conditions. Matthias joined the group at once, considerably influencing the sound of the recordings, and contributing a beautiful additional piece. The resulting album, released 1984 as vinyl and on CD several years later, can still be obtained from www.originaltonwest.de.

Compared to the official Camera Obscura album (their only one) with its perfect studio quality, these first recordings have a certain innocence and a raw kind of beauty to them.

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BONUS ARCHIVE MATERIAL
If you download this album, the download file will contain four additional guitar tape loops (music inspired by Robert Fripp's "Frippertronics", about 50 minutes long in total) that were recorded between 1983 and 1985. (One of them is the original tape loop that went into the track "The Journey".)

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released June 1, 1983

Hans Niederberger - keyboards and drums
Urs Fuchs - keyboards and bass
Michael Peters - guitars and tape loops

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Michael Peters Köln, Germany

Far away from the musical mainstream, always looking for new sound worlds: polyrhythmic minimal music, ambient sound clouds, avantgarde rock, abstract and atonal experiments, algorithmic compositions, field recordings, guitar and livelooping ... WIRE magazine has reviewed some of Michael's albums in their "Outer Limits" section - that says it all, more or ... more

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