Label: Creel Pone

80年代初頭よりシンセポップやクラシックを中心に大量の音盤を発表し続けたドイツのMediadisc。このレーベルの作品群の中では間違いなく異質な部類に入る、フルート奏者にしてコンポーザーHelmut W. Erdmannが残した3枚のLP作品を纏めたものが本作。MediadiscのオーナーであるHeinz-Wilfried Burowとの共作も含む、80年代中盤から後半に掛けて録音されたフルート中心の異端電子音楽及びライブエレクトロニクス作品を収録、アルペジオの実験なども確認出来ます。





wonderful, late-stage discovery of three LPs issued by Heinz-Wilfried Burow (aka. Paul Leslie) on his Mediadisc imprint of (selectively) Avant-Electronic pieces for various Flutes, Synthesizers, and "Live-Elektronik" flourish performed by flautist Helmut W. Erdmann as recorded during the mid-late-80s.

Much like the format/tracklisting of Klaus Hashagen "Percussion und Elektronik" ([CP 174 CD]) set, the first "Neue Musik Für Flöte(n)" volume (MD 2015) features a side-length work, "Dodeci Pezzi - Für Flöte Und Live-Elektronik (Entstanden 1985 in Olevano/Rom)" that meshes quite virtuosic flurries of increasingly difficult/bizarre sine-tone phraseology with realtime Electronic Interference, paving the way for the B-side's extended "Hommage A Telemann (1981) - Für Flöten Und Live-Elektronik".

The successive Burow/Erdmann collaborative LP, "Imaginations I" (MD 2018) by all appearances could believably work the more placid/nuage end of things but is in fact an experiment in merging live flute playing over ostinato & arpeggiated synth timbres in a manner that could only rightfully be described as "Proto Acid" - it's a wonderful set that avoids the exact sort of genre-trappings that would normally put such an affair on the European Grey-Area press-blitz reissue-program radar, which is in effect why its such a perfect C.P. candidate.

Finally, the second "Neue Musik Für Flöte(n)" set (MD 2021) playfully renders many original Erdmann solo flute works real alongside those by Helmut Bieler & Peter Hoch; while aligning itself firmly within the "Performer's Repertoire" lane, it offers many twists & turns that grant the listener a unique window into Erdmann's particular aesthetic.

Wonderful edition, working the more recent "Three-Lane" format (overviews of the original LP covers/labels/rears on the outside, detail of the latters on the inside) while condensing everything conveniently onto two discs. This is a great, late-stage example of exactly the sort of records waiting out in the wilds for such a reapparaisal.