Name: Galerie Randolph
Brand: Ruedi Hausermann

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BLACKTRUFFLE042

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Deluxe Gatefold Sleeve with gorgeous archival images by the composer. Design by Stephen O’Malley. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin. 500 Copies Only. 

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-02-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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880319944710

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Ruedi Hausermann

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Electronic

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Black Truffle

Black Truffle release the first-ever vinyl reissue of Ruedi Häusermann’s <i>Galerie Randolph</i>, a masterpiece of solo multi-tracking originally released on CD by Unit Records in 1995.

Almost unknown except to a select group of cognoscenti such as Jim O’Rourke, yet destined to become a cult classic, <i>Galerie Randolph</i> is an instance of that most rare thing: music the likes of which you have never heard before. 

Born in 1948 and residing in the medieval Swiss town of Lenzburg, and virtually unknown outside of the German-speaking world, Häusermann is a multi-instrumentalist and enormously prolific composer who works primarily in the medium of absurdist music-theatre. A virtuoso wind player and free improviser who also composes for traditional classical instrumentation, his work is characterised by subtly surreal humour and the unlikely combination of extended technique and simple, at times almost child-like, melodic ideas. 

Named after his rehearsal room in Lenzburg, Galerie Randolph uses an enormous array of instruments to craft a work of singular compositional vision. Each of the twelve pieces begins from the same two elements: a woozy, sliding scatter of tones played on a home-made contraption stretching two guitar strings between the top of Häusermann’s alto saxophone and an amplified cup, and a series of uneasy block chords sounded on accordion and reeds. On each piece these two elements (whose pitch gradually raises throughout the record) are complemented by entirely different material, all of it played by Häusermann. Ranging from layered flutes to one-finger piano melodies to unintelligible vocals to musique concrete interjections to free jazz saxophone explosions, these additional layers combine with the endlessly returning idée fixe of the foundational elements to create a truly dream-like listening experience, a gently deranged realm in which we lose all sense of linear time.

LP - Deluxe Gatefold Sleeve with gorgeous archival images by the composer. Design by Stephen O’Malley. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&amp;M, Berlin. 500 Copies Only. 

Galerie Randolph

Music GB