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1. Mu I - 24:10
2. Mu II - 14:11
3. Mu III - 36:39
4. Mu IV - 24:04
Michael Ranta - percussion, guitars, thundersheet
Mike Lewis - keyboards, wind instruments, percussion
Conny Plank - live electronics, sound control, recording supervisor
'These amazing recordings from 1970 feature unbelievable material from seminal engineer and Kraftwerk producer Conny Plank alongside noted percussionists Michael Ranta and Mike Lewis. 'Mu' was recorded at Conny Plank's studio only a few months after the legendary Wired session which ended up on Deutsche Grammofon's Free Improvisation boxset in 1974. Limited only by the length of the tapes available, the trio created the four sections of 'Mu' in one night and mixed the whole album down the following morning, showcasing a masterful handling of freeform sonic abstractions and sublimely minimal psychedelic improvisations.
Their music is suspended in a timeless, spiritually resonant space, connecting threads and fragments of purely esoteric sonics into an organic matrix of otherworldly shapes and aural apparations, Plank using the studio as an instrument restricted only by the very outer bounds of possibility, imagination, and his own unquestionable talent. The results are genuinely breathtaking, delivering one of the most visceral, abstract and engrossing Krautrock experiences imaginable'
'What a stunning surprise discovery of this obscure ensemble with Michael Ranta, Mike Lewis and krautrock master Conny Plank. As on the legendary Wired LP on the Free Improvisation box set [Deutsche Grammophon, 1974] they created an amazing free form abstraction, a floating resonant and timeless music, similar in many ways to the early experiments of Tangerine Dream but in a world of its own, in all their twisted exotic and melancholy beauty... To be filed under classic krautrock, a masterpiece!' ~ Steven Stapleton
yuppers, this set is mellow & heady. perfect fer a late nite glisten. 320 shambolic trances. +
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