Michael Hoenig on vinyl

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:16 am Post subject: Michael Hoenig on vinyl

Today I found a mint condition copy of the Michael Hoenig LP : Departure from the Northern Wastelands.

I had this one years ago.

I just listened to it and it sounds just as fresh now as it did back then in 77/78. A real classic.

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject:

Actually I bought yet another vinyl of this one.

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject:

Hoenig is a strange one. He made some really fantastic music. Quite dark if I remember so?

My first encounter with Asmus Tietchens too was an LP (Nachtstucke) I found in a carboot sale a few years back- turned out that it was a ltd edition of 800 copies too Very Happy

This also is very dark, but beautiful- both at the same time- and is produced by none other than Peter Baumann Shocked

I found a link to an mp3 from this extraordinary recording here. The track is called "Falter-Lamento". Unfortunately it's not the whole LP, and it's only part of the track, but this one comes highly recommended Very Happy

(Biotop is good too- a bit like a soundtrack from some dodgy early nineties Fassbinder/ LA SciFi yarn)

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject:

An old friend, a drummer, borrowed "Departure" once. After a serious session of Departure on repeat, having the radio blaring at the same time in the kitchen, skilled selfmedication of the kind only a drummer would know how to accomplish; he reported having visions of of a TD with Baumann, Franke and Hoenig, and Edgar having departed for one hot Edgar and Jon stunt ...because Vangelis had defected to Russia. Those sweet memories of the mid 80s! Shocked

That repeat session killed the LP. So that is why I bought it again some years ago.

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

ian-s · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject:

Do you have it on CD?

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

"Departure" - no. Crying or Very sad

I did make some mp3s of it though, so I have it on my iPod. I would love a proper remaster of the original. Hopefully not reworked like what Froese does with the TD discs.. you know.. with handclaps and bongos. Shocked

Yorky · Joined: Feb 14, 2005 Posts: 244 Location: Boston, UK

I got this when it came out, there was quite a fuss at the time.
I also have the cd verion, it's pretty much the same i.e. no tangentizing

ps. congas not bongos

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject:

ian-s · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: