Ash Ra Tempel VI / Manuel Gottsching - Inventions For Electric Guitar(1974) +Private Tapes bonus

Ash Ra Tempel VI | Manuel Gottsching - Inventions For Electric Guitar
Vinyl rip in 24-bit / 96kHZ [and redbook] FLAC + artwork
Spalax 14145 (1997 reissue) [legacy rip. re-post] | RS + Mega

This album is sometimes credited to Ash Ra Tempel, but the music was composed and performed by Manuel Göttsching alone. All sounds were created with guitar, but Göttsching's use of echo, delay, and assorted treatments give these pieces the flavor of sequenced synthesizer music, occasionally reminiscent of Tangerine Dream's work from the period.

The opening "Echo Waves" is a trance-inducing space guitar masterpiece, with repeating rhythm figures and gradual phase shifts creating a warped sense of time. The first 14 minutes of the track consist of short, subtly changing melodic phrases, until Göttsching questionably chooses to close with a searing, acid-fried guitar solo. "Quasarsphere" is much more contemplative, with Göttsching processing his guitar to sound like a synthesizer in the vein of Robert Fripp. The closing "Pluralis" consists of endless variations constructed around a simple guitar sequence; it possesses a structure similar to "Echo Waves" (down to the late-breaking blast of psychedelic soloing) with a bit more space and a slower tempo. In some respects a precursor to the groundbreaking proto-techno of E2-E4, Inventions for Electric Guitar is an essential document for space rock enthusiasts. - AMG


Just keeping a few of my favorite old posts alive... my network is hammered right now with all my seeding and uploading, so for now, this is all I am offering, I'll get the other mega link going soon.



tracks:
A1 Echo Waves
A2 Quasarsphere
B1 Pluralis



credits and info:
Recorded: July-August 1974, Berlin
First Release: 1975 on Ohr Kosmische Musik
Performed by: Manuel Göttsching (guitars only). Manuel played his guitar and used a 4 track TEAC A3340, Revox A77 for echoes, WahWah pedal, volume pedal, Sola Sound Fuzz, Schaller Rotosound and Hawaiian steel bar.
Total Time: 45:55

transfer: May 10, 2012
Record Doctor RCM
Audio-Technica AT33EV
Sota Sapphire w/ Eminent Technology Tonearm 2 (ET-2)
Tube Box SE II w/NOS Telefunken ECC83
E-MU 0404
Sound Studio [capture 24-bit/96kHZ]
Amadeus Pro [Analyze, split tracks, verify waveform, no clipping]
Izotope RX2 [manual de-clicking]
xACT [flac conversion, tagging, ffp]


bonus: Private Tapes Vol. 1-6 CD Rip