Label: Edition Hansjörg Mayer – none
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Box Set
Country: Germany
Released: 1976
Genre: Jazz
Style: Free Improvisation, Experimental
Highest high-art clatterings from Dieter Roth's Selten Gehörte Musik - Rarely Heard Music group, recorded at Hermann Nitsch's Villa Romenthal in Austria. Overwhelming / constipating 3LP box with mighty historical clout due to the personnel involved. Not for everyone. RARE!! (NM/VG+)
"The next "Rarely Heard Music" production was staged once again in a private setting: at Hermann Nitsch's Villa Romenthal by Lake Ammer on 12th February 1975: the Streichquartett 558171 (Romenthalquartett) with Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Dieter Roth and Gerhard Rühm, which filled all of a three album boxed set. Originally we had simply made a selection of the recorded material large enough to fill a single album, Roth was unable to part with the remaining material when it came to having the records pressed. The remorseless inclusion of even the failures, the idle moments, was so radical it almost bordered on masochism. In this particular case I felt it was an ascetic exercise in dispensing with all the correction and rectification, a ban on holding anything back. Simultaneously, Roth's often hard school of total acceptance had a stimulating and in some ways liberating effect on me, mindful as I normally am of formal rigor and economy of means" - Gerhard Rühm. Apart from the group session this edition also includes a duo piano session by Dieter Roth and Hermann Nitsch recorded in Stuttgart, November 1975.
Tracklist
Streichquartett 558171 (Romenthalquartett)
A1 1. 1. Satz
B1 1. 1. Satz
B2 2. Scherzo
C1 3. Trauermarsch
C2 4. Sockel Napoleons
C3 5. Zwischenrede
D1 5. Zwischenrede
D2 6. Adagio Mit Höllenfahrt (Oder Die Wut Über Den Verlorenen Wiener)
E1 6. Adagio Mit Höllenfahrt (Oder Die Wut Über Den Verlorenen Wiener)
E2 7. Programmusik (Elfenreigen)
E3 8. Zwischenruine
F1 8. Zwischenruine
F2 9. Schluss
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F3 Plattenfüller (Musikattrappe) - Klavier Zu 4 Händen
