From: piovanel@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (marco piovanelli)
Subject: RELEASE: Forthcoming Touch Releases
Followup-To: rec.music.misc
Summary: New releases (October 1992) from Touch: the Hafler Trio and Willem de R
Originator: recmusic@galaxy
Keywords: Touch, The Hafler Trio, Willem de Ridder
Reply-To: piovanel@ghost.dsi.unimi.it
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:20:05 GMT

   TOUCH AND MERZSTUECKE proudly announce:

   NEW RELEASES FROM TOUCH, OCTOBER 1992

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*  The Hafler Trio
   MASTERY OF MONEY
   CD + 20pp booklet
   Touch {TO:18}

   OVER THE LAST ten years, the Hafler Trio have been developing
   an approach to sound that re-invents the idea of "ambient" --
   a genre that has become synonymous with a passive state of
   listening.  The Hafler Trio seek to empower, not placate.
   "It would seem, that still, after all these years, perception
   is essentially thought to be a passive process [...]"

   MASTERY OF MONEY is the Hafler Trio's most accessible recording
   to date.  This 75 minute compact disc is the sequel to the 1991
   release "Kill the King", encompassing such diverse subject
   matters as Scientology's 'deprogramming' techniques, to an 1857
   invention, 'The Vowel Flame', which showed how a regulated
   burner responded to different sounds.

   MASTERY OF MONEY will be available through RTM (APT/Backs) from
   October 19th, 1992.


*  Willem de Ridder & the Hafler Trio
   SNUFF
   Limited Edition CD + 32pp boolet
   Touch {SPL:2}
   Volume 2 in the Spiral magazine series
   Volume 1 in the Spoken Word series

   SNUFF CONTAINS TWO oral pieces and one musical interlude;
   'Snuff' by Willem de Ridder is followed by 'Projection' by the
   Hafler Trio, before a journey to the 'Isle of the Dead', also
   read by Willem de Ridder.  The booklet includes 'The End of the
   Graven Image' by William Levy & Willem de Ridder, 'Knitting
   with Fog without a Manual' by Andrew McKenzie and 'Oral
   Tradition' by Noritoshi Hirakawa & Willem de Ridder.

   RECORDED LIVE ON the shores of Corsica and in the 'Garden of
   the Dying' in Italy, Willem de Ridder tells a deadly story
   which by-passes the mind and reaches the core.  Enhanced by an
   intermezzo of the Hafler Trio's psycho-acoustic sound, the
   story is simple, but lethal.  Feel your body respond as your
   mind is 'snuffed'.

   WILLEM DE RIDDER was one of the first experimental sound
   recordist in the Netherlands, developing and organizing theatre,
   painting and exhibitions of art throughout Europe.
   Working in radio, TV and in the open air, no arena has been
   left untouched by him.  With Germaine Greer, Heathcote Williams,
   William Levy and Jim Haynes he founded SUCK, the first European
   sexpaper, and he went on to found the WET DREAM FESTIVAL, the
   first Erotic Film Festival in the world.  After a move to
   Hollywood he started RADIO CADILLAC, and later the first
   America's first reader-written paper, FINGER, a sexpaper.
   This became GOD, the ultimate in sexpapers.  De Ridder fled to
   the Netherlands after death threats and questions from the
   Manson family and the FBI.  At home he continued  to develop
   these themes, notably in LOVE, the sex magazine produces for the
   US market.  After his arrest for pornography he was chained to
   Annie Sprinkle and then moved with her to Italy.  A prolific
   and respected writer, story-teller and DJ, Willer de Ridder
   still flourishes in Italy, Amsterdam and New York, and is
   currently working on a series of cassettes for US radio with 
   Andrew McKenzie.


*  The Hafler Trio
   A THIRSTY FISH
   CD
   The Grey Area of Mute Records {KUT 6}

   THE GREY AREA of Mute Records is about to embark on the
   re-release of the Hafler Trio's vinyl output from 1984 to '87 --
   six CDs in all.  The first, due in October, is 'A Thirsty Fish',
   a double LP originally released in 1987, and is available from
   Touch.


*  TOUCH HAS ALSO just rereleased 'A Bag of Cats' {SPL:1},
   originally produced in 1989 as the first of the Spiral series.
   This edition has been redesigned with new writing from Andrew
   McKenzie.

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