Name: Gespensterland
Brand: Various

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BB436

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-08-18

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Shellshock

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4015698579208

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BB436LP

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4015698847772

Black LP

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Various

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New Wave / Post Punk

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Bureau B

Bureau B is an independent record label, music publisher, and booking agency based in Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 2005 by Gunther Buskies as a sister label to Tapete Records, Bureau B specializes in releasing a diverse range of electronic and avant-garde music. With a focus on reissues and new productions, the label has built an extensive catalogue that includes iconic albums from the Krautrock genre of the 1970s and early 1980s. They also release recordings by influential artists such as Die Wilde Jagd, Kreidler, Toulouse Low Trax, and more.

Known for their commitment to preserving classic electronic music, Bureau B has been rereleasing albums from renowned artists like Cluster, Faust, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank, Schickert Schnitzler Tietchens Tyndall. In addition to these reissues, they also release works by similar artists including Blenner Heldon Pinhas Rev or NDW Plan Pyrolator.

With their impressive catalogue and dedication to promoting innovative music across various genres within the electronic spectrum - from pop to avant-garde - Bureau B continues to be a prominent force in the global music industry. Their contributions have solidified them as an authoritative figure in the world of independent labels.

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Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany's sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the copse of the ubiquitous "Neo-Kraut", "Diskurs-Pop" and the like. We're talking about a small underground network of artists and projects with poetic, mysterious names such as Brannten Schnure, Baldruin, Kirschstein, Freundliche Kreisel and Balint Brosel. Operating in the margins and intersections of folklore, experimental electronics, dreams and nightmares, the "Gespensterland" LP archives and compiles their magic works for the very first time and already today it stands as a contemporary testament with an auratic presence comparable to that of Pordenone's "Great Complotto". "Deutschland - Gespensterland": they're lurking in each and every crack of a brittle reality, amongst the concrete of apartment blocks and motorway bridges, twixt and tween the shopping mall and the leisure park, they're floating along gap sites and post-war facades, apricating in the ludicrous snobbery of Germany's suburbia, whispering from behind crammed sheds in a labyrinth of allotments. Gossamer ghosts spun from daily rituals, spectres of a mundane here and now, that suffuse the land with an invisible veiling. Hardly ever have their frequencies been transmitted as unadulterated as on this record. Much like the fever dream imagery of gothic novels and early horror flicks has equipped our senses with a new perception of reality itself, Gespensterland's surreal songs and oblique sound textures yield an array of microscopic reflections and deeper insights into the psychogeography of the land. Raised in Lower Franconia, both Baldruin and Brannten Schnure already have a considerable discography under their belt. A string of vinyl and cassette releases issued in lovingly designed small runs contributed to their underground fame, securing them a distinguished but growing cult following, especially abroad. Due to their rather brief or latent existence, the legacy of Balint Brosel and Kirschstein, hailing from the Ruhr area, however is of a more obscure nature. Hence, it's all the more important that their fascinating and idiosyncratic skein of ghost musick is being documented here as well, emerging like a seldom ore that slumbered too long inside the earth, having accumulated the collective dreams of generations of necromancers. Ghosts stories, both uncanny and hilarious, are likewise the main ingredient of Freundliche Kreisel's songs, a joint project of Brannten Schnure and Baldruin, and as with all material on this record these tracks have been unreleased to date.&nbsp;

 Tracklisting 01. Freundliche Kreisel - Gespensterland 02. Kirschstein - Komet uber Sch(r)attenberg 03. Baldruin - Reich der Illusionen 04. Kirschstein - Ach, Du grobe Nachtmusik 05. Freundliche Kreisel - Abbild 06. Baldruin - Elektrische Krauter 07. Kirschstein - Futura Narkotica 08. Brannten Schnure - Ich versaum' doch ni

Gespensterland

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Discover Gespensterland by Various on CD and LP. A compilation of magical works from underground German artists, blending folklore, experimental electronics, and dreams. Released by Bureau B.