Name: Limited 40 Years Anniversary Box Set
Brand: Grauzone

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ALIVE AG

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Limited edition

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Release date

2021-04-16

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80412241

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4251804122412

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Grauzone

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Wrwtfww Records

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Rock-Pop

Grauzone was a Swiss Neue Deutsche Welle/post punk band that formed in 1980 in Bern. The band consisted of Christian Trüssel on drums, GT on bass, Martin Eicher on guitar, and Marco Repetto on saxophone. They gained commercial success with their song "Eisbär" but chose to focus on film and studio work rather than pursuing a mainstream career. In 1981, they released their self-titled LP before disbanding in 1982.

Drummer Christian Trüssel and bassist GT were members of the Swiss punk band Glueams before forming Grauzone. They joined forces with guitarist/vocalist Martin Eicher, who had previously supported them on the Glueams single "Mental". The group played their first gig as Grauzone in March 1980 at the Spex club in Bern. Later, Martin's brother joined as a guitarist and Marco Repetto joined as a saxophonist for live performances and recordings.

Grauzone achieved commercial success with their song "Eisbär", which was initially featured on the Swiss Wave compilation album in 1980 before being released as a single. The track reached number 6 in Austria and number 12 in the German charts. Despite this success, the band resisted commercial pressures and focused instead on film and studio projects.

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Limited 40 Years Anniversary Box Set, packed with their complete discography, as well as a never-released-before live recording, an 80-page fanzine with an extensive biography written by Swiss music historian Lurker Grand, unseen archival material, and artist contributions, and a poster replica of an original concert flyer from 1980.Conceived, conceptualized and supervised by original band member Stephan Eicher, the box set includes the following exclusive content:Grauzone’s self-titled album from 1981 reissued as a 180g vinyl double LP with 9 additional tracks, amounting to the band’s complete studio discography. Included are the classics "Eisbär", "FILM 2", "Raum", "Moskau", "Träume Mit Mir", "Der Weg Zu Zweit", and "Wütendes Glas (Maxi Version)", as well as the deep and unconventional album cuts that make Grauzone so unique. The double LP is housed in a heavy gatefold sleeve, with liner notes by Lurker Grand, an insert with the original album’s lyrics, and a special Xeroxed artwork imagined by Stephan Eicher.Grauzone’s Live LP, a recording of their April 12th 1980 concert at Gaskessel in their hometown of Bern, Switzerland, with a sleeve artwork by Stephan Eicher.An 80-page Fanzine containing the history of Grauzone written by Lurker Grand, never-seen images of the band and their collaborators and incredible snapshots of the late 70s/early 80s underground scene in Switzerland, as well as artist contributions by Christian Marclay, Genesis P-Orridge, Sylvie Fleury, John Armleder, Maurizio Cattelan, Gregor Hildebrandt and more, cementing Grauzone’s Art band with a Punk attitude ethos.A 60 x 90 cm poster replica of Grauzone’s Spex (Bern) concert flyer from October 25 1980.Absolutely All the elements included in this box set collection were photocopied by hand with a vintage Xerox machine before being printed, as wished by Stephan Eicher (who took care of photocopy duties for a good chunk of the material). A bold artistic choice, a nod to the DIY ways of the era this release represents, and drawing a parallel between the acts of reissuing and photocopying.The pioneering band from Bern (Switzerland) had a short-lived but highly-regarded career which birthed a cult discography that still fascinates and resonates today. Consisting of core members Martin Eicher, Stephan Eicher, and Marco Repetto, and on-and-off participants Christian GT Trüssel, Claudine Chirac, and Ingrid Berney, the elusive group broke new grounds in the early 80s, experimenting with punk and industrial music, early techno sounds, minimalism, new wave, pop, and various electronics. With an innovative and polished approach to design, visuals, performance, and all around style and philosophy on top of their superb music, the constantly transforming unit developed a whole experience - the Grauzone experience: wild and unpredictable, yet sophisticated and cohesive, or as Swiss music historian Lurker Grand would call it, "an Art band with a Punk attitude".

Limited 40 Years Anniversary Box Set

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