HARTMUT GEERKEN - Requiem for the Snake of Maidan 2LP Pre order electric fields

electric fields

With a howling and unholy mix of punk rock and the blues

Similar to the previous full-band release (“Sediment Seen”)

these myriad musical strains are tied together through a conceptual framework gleaned from the Grateful Dead

The titles come from Yoko Ono

HARTMUT GEERKEN - Requiem for the Snake of Maidan 2LP Pre order electric fieldsEdition of 500 copies, double LP with inserts. towards the end of the 1970s, a film about me and my work was made in kabul for the south german tv program. the director was arpad bondy. in order to find a venue for my music that is typical for afghanistan, it was agreed that my percussion environment, a tubular cube of 2x2x2 meters including the associated instruments, would be transported on a barren, stony ridge in the hindukush mountains. the