Klaus Dinger & preJapandorf – 2000! (RSD-Exclusive 17′)
Limited Record Store Day Exclusive (2017). The last missing puzzle piece in Klaus Dinger’s work and previously unreleased!
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The Cover Art is designed with lavish Inside-Out paper.
Inlay is illustrated with previously unreleased pictured from the Klaus Dinger Archive.
The upcoming millennium inspired Klaus Dinger, legendary co-founder of NEU! and La Düsseldorf, to look for new collaborative opportunities with other musicians. His ambition was to create new music, to “re-sound” the impending millennium and to find new forms of artistic production. He therefore opened his studio to various fine artists and musicians for spontaneous recording sessions.
All of the tracks were recorded in Klaus’s Zeeland studio in one take. Except “June 2. 2000! Lilienthal Studio”, which was recorded in Klaus’s studio in Düsseldorf.
It was crucial for everyone to capture the purity and magic of the first take.
“Turning documentary into art” would indeed be the best way to describe this album.
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1. June 2. 2000! Lilienthal Studio (2:22)
Music: Onouchi, Nakao
Maki Umehara(vox), Klaus Dinger (vox), Kazuyuki Onouchi (piano), Masaki Nakao (Harmonica)
2. Pure Energy (5:14)
Text: Wehrmeister; music: Dinger, Wehrmeister, Reihse, Onouchi
Klaus Dinger (guitar), Viktoria Wehrmeister (vox), Andreas Reihse (keybord), Kazuyuki Onouchi (drums), Masaki Nakao (vox)
3. Talk (5:15)
Text: Wehrmeister; music: Dinger, Wehrmeister, Reihse, Onouchi
Klaus Dinger (guitar), Viktoria Wehrmeister (vox), Andreas Reihse (keybord), Kazuyuki Onouchi (drums), Masaki Nakao (vox)
4. Mayday 2000! (7:35)
Music and text: Dinger
Klaus Dinger (guitar), Viktoria Wehrmeister (vox), Thea Djordjadze (vox), Masaki Nakao (vox)
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5. Untitled, September 12. 2000! (8:12)
Music: Dinger, Onouchi
Klaus Dinger (guitar), Kazuyuki Onouchi (drums/bass)
6. Midsummer (7:00)
Text: Wehrmeister, Djordiadze; music: Dinger, Onouchi, Reihse, Wehrmeister Klaus Dinger (guitar), Kazuyuki Onouchi (drums), Andreas Reihse (keybord), Viktoria Wehrmeister (vox), Thea Djordjadze (vox)
7. THANK YOU ALL! (2:40)
Text: Dinger; music: Dinger, Onouchi
Klaus Dinger (vox/guitar/bass), Kazuyuki Onouchi (drums)
Recorded at Klaus Dinger’s Zeeland Studio Kamperland
and at Lilienthal Studio Düsseldorf by Kazuyuki Onouchi, 2000
Mixed by Klaus Dinger and Kazuyuki Onouchi, 2000 – 2007
Mastering by Kai Blankenberg Skyline Tonfabrik, 2016
Produced by Klaus Dinger, co-produced by Kazuyuki Onouchi and Miki Yui
Front cover drawing by Viktoria Wehrmeister, 2000
All Polaroids by Klaus Dinger, 2000, except self-portrait and Andreas Reihse by Thea Djordiadze, Klaus Dinger with camera by Shinichi Mizoguchi, 2000
Cover design by Christa Marek and Miki Yui, 2016
Grönland Records, 2017
