Label: Reiger Records Reeks - KY-CD 1901-10

現在は娘Ilseが運営するカイン自身のReiger Records Reeksから、1982-1983年制作の初出音源10枚組ボックス[Scanning]がリリース！！1933年ドイツ-ロイトリンゲン出身、イタリアの伝説的即興集団 Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza活動初期に参加、ソロでは70年代後半〜80年代中期に掛けてColosseumに数種のLPボックスを残し、90年代に入ってからは自身のReiger-records-reeksより大量のCD音盤を発表し続けたローラント・カイン。本作[Scanning]はカインの愛好家であるジム・オルーク氏がリマスターを担当、間違いなく2019年最高峰の重要リリースです。マスト。

The time has come for perhaps the most significant missing piece in the puzzle to be made available. 'Scanning' (1982-1983) was both the most fully realised consolidation of Roland Kayn's conception of cybernetic music and a hugely personal artistic statement. Across 10 CDs of immersive audio, expertly remastered by Kayn aficionado Jim O’Rourke, listeners are now finally able to digest Kayn's little-known masterpiece, that has remained widely unheard since its completion. Until now.
A hitherto-unreleased electronic masterpiece from Roland Kayn, singular pioneer of cybernetic music. Over a period spanning the late 70s through the early 80s, Kayn (1933–2011) issued a quintet of extended works that quietly but definitively redrew the map of electronic music. Informed by cybernetics and a desire to actualise analogue circuitry as an agency in the compositional process, this music adopted a form that can only be described as oceanic, as side after side of vinyl allowed a wholly new vocabulary of electronic sound to find its shape. In the decades that followed, these multi-LP boxed-set releases became hallowed documents of contemporary music (as well as highly prized collectors’ items). Kayn’s initially subtle influence belied a gradual shift towards the widespread adoption of his ideas and practices in the 21st century, incorporating both the rise in popularity of modular synthesis as a music-making tool, and the huge advancements in machine learning and AI.

Following the recent reissue of ‘Simultan’ (1977) and the first-time release of late work ‘A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound’ (2009), it was clear that a new generation of listeners and musicians were eager to discover Kayn’s vision in all its vastness.

Kayn's own label, Reiger Records Reeks, has been reawakened by his daughter Ilse, and her long-cherished dream of releasing this music is now finally a reality.