Incredible outsider experimental works from autodidactic Swiss artist and field recorder Hans Krusi. Massive tip for those into Graham Lambkin / Dieter Roth / Amnon Raviv +++ (NM)
Among the wall-to-wall clutter of Krüsi's ramshackle lodgings, where pigeons flew in and perched, evidence of an unexpectedly experimental spirit abounded, including Krüsi's old cameras and the second-hand tape recorders with which he liked to capture the sounds of birds, insects and church bells. The artist's inventiveness and fertile imagination seemed to contrast sharply with his humble way of life. Krüsi took subjects from the agrarian world that he knew: alpine farmhouses, forested mountains, cows, birds, rabbits and cats. In his varied oeuvre, the folkloric and the psychedelic often appear to converge. Some works are even hallucinatory, with bright, brushy passages of acid green, lemon yellow or Pepto-Bismol pink in which watchful, lounging cats, clusters of dithering birds or watery human figures huddle or writhe.. (NM/NM) Tracklist A1 EX HK. (Excerpts) A2 EX HK. (Excerpts) A3 EX HK. (Excerpts) A4 EX HK. (Excerpts) B EX HK. (Excerpts)
