Martin Davorin Jagodic – Tempo Furioso (Tolles Wetter)

Martin Davorin Jagodic's furious waters...
One of my all-time favourites of electroacoustic music. INA-GRM meets Stochausen, and a fair amount of what influenced Nurse With Wound. It's spooky, dramatic and powerful, like listening to Stockhausen's "Hymnen" re-written and condensed as a surreal film soundtrack, in a way, but also highly original too, encompassing all sorts of unlikely elements - not least a surprise fragment of a single by UK heavy rocking girl-group Fanny! And then there's that mind-bending peice of theatre that perfectly combines some unrelated texts as something new altogether, Now that's pure Dada!

Also sought after because of it's inclusion on the Nurse With Wound list, it's a shame though that Cramps Records/Edel CD reissue is a rather botched -up rip from vinyl. True, someone has tried to do a repair job to hide the fact, but all the mid-high detail is missing. If you've never heard it, the CD will suffice if you find it cheap. No idea on the Japanese issue, but I guess that will be the same. No doubt the tapes are lost, which would explain why it never came out as announced in the Artis/Cramps reissue series in the mid 1990's.