Von Deyen/Schutz – Inventions

Description

1. The Awakening
2. Speed for You
3. Peace on Earth
4. Baltic Sea
5. Lunar Opera Part 1-3
6. Farland
7. Apache’s Pain
8. Jungle
9. Vulcano ’78
10. Valley of the Monsters

Bureau B’s latest reissue takes us back to the ‘Berlin-School’ of kosmiche and krautrock in the early 1980s, and the formative portion of synthesizer obsessive Dieter Schutz career. Inventions was first released on vinyl in 1983, and sees Schutz join forces with friend and fellow electronic music enthusiast Adelbert Von Deyen. The pair had been working together since the mid 1970s, and on Inventions it shows. Opening with the gloriously hybrid electronic/acoustic proto-Balearic wonder of ‘The Awakening’, the pair guides us through a serious of grandiose, synth-heavy, melody-rich and frequently surprisingly rhythmic soundscapes – and even a three-part ‘Lunar Opera’. As cosmic and spacey as they come, and then some.

Recorded By, Mixed By, Composed By, Performer – Adelbert Von Deyen, Dieter Schuetz*
Synthesizer [Arp 2600, Arp Odyssey, Farfisa Strings], Voice, Electronic Drums [Electronic Percussion], Tape [Tape-Effects] – Adelbert Von Deyen
Synthesizer [Roland Jupiter 4, Micromoog], Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Voice, Electronic Drums [Electronic Percussion] – Dieter Schuetz*
Written-By – Adelbert Von Deyen , Dieter Schütz