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HEMATIC SUNSETS — Aroma Club Adieu 5
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"Final release by Asmus Tietchens death lounge project Hematic Sunsets
Farewell greetings by Michael Rother, Felix Kubin, Heinz Funk, Okko Bekker and more
The Hematic Sunsets shut down the Aroma Club with a final release. The album Aroma Club Adieu features 12 exquisite pieces of death lounge electronic pop performed on electronic organs and entertainment devices of various kinds. Under the moniker Hematic Sunsets, legendary avantgarde composer Asmus Tietchens has explored his love of the Darth Vader organ sound a cheesy, spooky, deranged but still catchy form of electronic pop. The body of work of Hematic Sunsets stands out as unique, displaced and in a sexy way out of fashion. As a bonus to the final album of the project artist friends of Asmus Tietchens have composed short hommages and farewell greetings that are included here in the form of a single sided 12 on white vinyl. Among those saluting are such illustrious musicians as Heinz Funk, Felix Kubin and Michael Rother." [label info]
https://aufabwegen.bandcamp.com/album/aroma-club-adieu
"And so it ends for the Aroma Club, adieu, so long and farewell. The fifth album by Hematic Sunsets, with such illustrious members as Hans Tim Cessteu, Assistent Meuch, Titus Mascheens, Suse Mittach sen and Asmus Tietchens. Or if you are clever, just Asmus Tietchens since all the other names are anagrams. Hematic Sunsets, check the anagram, is Tietchens' love for cheesy electronic music, which resulted in five LPs and two Christmas songs. The organ plays an important and I would think one of those organs that people had in the '70s. Well, my cousin had one, complete with a ton of ditto cheesy rhythms and chords and a big speaker below; the easy two-finger method of play. I seem to remember my cousin was pretty apt at it. I'd love to have one. Tietchens loves the sound of such organs as well as other machines that produce similar cheesy stuff. In the early days of his record
releasing career, Tietchens did four albums for Sky Records, which had a more poppy electronic streak, and later he decided he enjoyed doing that stuff resulting in the fictitious Aroma Club, which, no doubt, in Tietchens mind was a place where you could drink coffee and smoke your cigarette. In the corner there would be such an organ and someone playing his take on lounge music, But, this is Tietchens, a man with quotes of Cioran on most of his record (replaced by Klopstock on Hematic Sunsets releases), so this Aroma Club is not necessarily full of colour and on second thought the lounge music is not so cheesy and lounge-like at all. It comes with a strange hook, a dark undercurrent, and on this fifth album it all seems a bit darker than before, maybe the dark times we experience and with all clubs closed (well, here in The Netherlands at least). This is, however, still great dark lounge music, with those minimal rhythms, and melodies, ranging from lightweight to almost industrial, showing the veracity of the music. Excellent album, once again.
As a bonus, there is a one-sided LP which gives space to friends of Tietchens to say goodbye and bow their heads to the Aroma Club. There is Okko Bekker (owner of the studio in which Tietchens works), Felix Kubin, Michael Rother (early Kraftwerk member, and of Neu and Harmonia), Jetzmann, Heinz Funk, Ebinger, Chestnut Ameis, Maik Willing & Der Botox Lucas Chor and Unknown Singing Objects, who all have their take on Hematic Sunsets; spacious guitars, obviously, for Rother and Kubin with some fun pop song madness, or the super slick jazzy flutes of Ebinger. Maik Willing & Der Botox Lucas Chor tops it all with a schlager (look that up for yourself) going out of control. This is all a fitting tribute to the fun side of Tietchens. It could very well that you think it's stupid, but I think it is great fun." [FdW/Vital Weekly]
"Auch wenn fast jede Verffentlichung Asmus Tietchens von einem Cioran-Zitat begleitet und geziert wird, so hat sich schon immer auch Humor im Werk des Hamburgers gezeigt, was sich u.a. teilweise in der Titelgebung seiner Tracks widerspiegelte, jedoch war dieser Humor nie so dominant wie auf seinem death lounge project Hematic Sunsets (auf dem seine anagrammatischen Mitspieler Achim Stutessen, Assistent Meusch, Hans Tim Cessteu, Mischa Suttense und Tussi Schemante heien), auf dem Tietchens seiner Liebe zum wie es in der Pressemitteilung heit Darth Vader organ sound frnt; Attribute wie cheesy, spooky, deranged but still catchy zeigen das Spannungsfeld, in dem sich diese Musik situieren lsst. Das erste Album erschien 1998, diese finale Verffentlichung, auf der jetzt Adieu gesagt wird, besteht aus einer LP mit neuen Kompositionen und einem weiteren, einseitig bespielten Album, auf dem Weggefhrten Tschss sagen, da es sich Ausgeduftet hat, wie es bei Jetztmann heit.
Die Hematic Sunsets-LP ist voller kurioser und zum Teil natrlich durchaus catchy Tracks: Da gibt es die skurril-zerhckselte Stimme auf Zum Geleit, das in TOPY-Diktion betitelte Thee Church Ov Aroma mit seltsamen Stimmen und unheinlichen Flchen, das fast schon zu dster fr dieses Album ist. Auf Ungesungene Tanzrckstnde hrt man monotone hochrfrequente Loops. Es gibt das groartig betitelte Stuhlwasser mit Billigorgel oder die seltsamen Kirmesstimmen bei Der im Keller. Liebelei mit cheesy Streichern und Gesang htte den einen oder anderen Partykeller in den 70ern beschallen knnen. Auf Schrittbinder hrt man kuriose Schellen, Fiasko wre in einem Paralleluniversum vielleicht ein Soundtrack zu einer Krimiserie gewesen, zu einer Zeit, als es nur zwei Fernsehprogramme gab. Interessanterweise htte man ein Stck wie Dem Morgen graut durchaus auch auf einer reinen Tietchens-Verffentlichung der letzten Jahre finden knnen. Das lapidar betitelte Das wars dann schliet die erste LP ab.
Chestnut Ameis erffnet das zweite Album mit der seltsamen Kirmesmusik von Speckpumpe. Otto Bekkers lsst den Hrenden bei Peyote-Melodie zu Bontempiorgel schunkeln, Unknown Singing Objects, die bisher ein paar Singles verffentlicht haben, steuern eine seltsame Ballade voll Blut und Knochenmark bei. Auf Phantomschmerz ist Felix Kubin mit Retroscifi Lounge zu hren. Sehr schn ist Martellato des 2013 verstorbenen Heinz Funk. Jetztmann endet lo-fi mit dementen Vocals.
Im beiliegenden Blatt wird die Geschichte des Aroma Clubs augenzwinkernd dargelegt. Hhepunke waren etwa Mikadotanz-Abende, Kriechkeller-Parties und Hodenbaden unter der fachkundigen Observanz von Dr. Kurt Euler ob die Liedertafel Margot Honecker dabei Lieder schmetterte, bleibt unerwhnt." [MG / African Paper]
Farewell greetings by Michael Rother, Felix Kubin, Heinz Funk, Okko Bekker and more
The Hematic Sunsets shut down the Aroma Club with a final release. The album Aroma Club Adieu features 12 exquisite pieces of death lounge electronic pop performed on electronic organs and entertainment devices of various kinds. Under the moniker Hematic Sunsets, legendary avantgarde composer Asmus Tietchens has explored his love of the Darth Vader organ sound a cheesy, spooky, deranged but still catchy form of electronic pop. The body of work of Hematic Sunsets stands out as unique, displaced and in a sexy way out of fashion. As a bonus to the final album of the project artist friends of Asmus Tietchens have composed short hommages and farewell greetings that are included here in the form of a single sided 12 on white vinyl. Among those saluting are such illustrious musicians as Heinz Funk, Felix Kubin and Michael Rother." [label info]
https://aufabwegen.bandcamp.com/album/aroma-club-adieu
"And so it ends for the Aroma Club, adieu, so long and farewell. The fifth album by Hematic Sunsets, with such illustrious members as Hans Tim Cessteu, Assistent Meuch, Titus Mascheens, Suse Mittach sen and Asmus Tietchens. Or if you are clever, just Asmus Tietchens since all the other names are anagrams. Hematic Sunsets, check the anagram, is Tietchens' love for cheesy electronic music, which resulted in five LPs and two Christmas songs. The organ plays an important and I would think one of those organs that people had in the '70s. Well, my cousin had one, complete with a ton of ditto cheesy rhythms and chords and a big speaker below; the easy two-finger method of play. I seem to remember my cousin was pretty apt at it. I'd love to have one. Tietchens loves the sound of such organs as well as other machines that produce similar cheesy stuff. In the early days of his record
releasing career, Tietchens did four albums for Sky Records, which had a more poppy electronic streak, and later he decided he enjoyed doing that stuff resulting in the fictitious Aroma Club, which, no doubt, in Tietchens mind was a place where you could drink coffee and smoke your cigarette. In the corner there would be such an organ and someone playing his take on lounge music, But, this is Tietchens, a man with quotes of Cioran on most of his record (replaced by Klopstock on Hematic Sunsets releases), so this Aroma Club is not necessarily full of colour and on second thought the lounge music is not so cheesy and lounge-like at all. It comes with a strange hook, a dark undercurrent, and on this fifth album it all seems a bit darker than before, maybe the dark times we experience and with all clubs closed (well, here in The Netherlands at least). This is, however, still great dark lounge music, with those minimal rhythms, and melodies, ranging from lightweight to almost industrial, showing the veracity of the music. Excellent album, once again.
As a bonus, there is a one-sided LP which gives space to friends of Tietchens to say goodbye and bow their heads to the Aroma Club. There is Okko Bekker (owner of the studio in which Tietchens works), Felix Kubin, Michael Rother (early Kraftwerk member, and of Neu and Harmonia), Jetzmann, Heinz Funk, Ebinger, Chestnut Ameis, Maik Willing & Der Botox Lucas Chor and Unknown Singing Objects, who all have their take on Hematic Sunsets; spacious guitars, obviously, for Rother and Kubin with some fun pop song madness, or the super slick jazzy flutes of Ebinger. Maik Willing & Der Botox Lucas Chor tops it all with a schlager (look that up for yourself) going out of control. This is all a fitting tribute to the fun side of Tietchens. It could very well that you think it's stupid, but I think it is great fun." [FdW/Vital Weekly]
"Auch wenn fast jede Verffentlichung Asmus Tietchens von einem Cioran-Zitat begleitet und geziert wird, so hat sich schon immer auch Humor im Werk des Hamburgers gezeigt, was sich u.a. teilweise in der Titelgebung seiner Tracks widerspiegelte, jedoch war dieser Humor nie so dominant wie auf seinem death lounge project Hematic Sunsets (auf dem seine anagrammatischen Mitspieler Achim Stutessen, Assistent Meusch, Hans Tim Cessteu, Mischa Suttense und Tussi Schemante heien), auf dem Tietchens seiner Liebe zum wie es in der Pressemitteilung heit Darth Vader organ sound frnt; Attribute wie cheesy, spooky, deranged but still catchy zeigen das Spannungsfeld, in dem sich diese Musik situieren lsst. Das erste Album erschien 1998, diese finale Verffentlichung, auf der jetzt Adieu gesagt wird, besteht aus einer LP mit neuen Kompositionen und einem weiteren, einseitig bespielten Album, auf dem Weggefhrten Tschss sagen, da es sich Ausgeduftet hat, wie es bei Jetztmann heit.
Die Hematic Sunsets-LP ist voller kurioser und zum Teil natrlich durchaus catchy Tracks: Da gibt es die skurril-zerhckselte Stimme auf Zum Geleit, das in TOPY-Diktion betitelte Thee Church Ov Aroma mit seltsamen Stimmen und unheinlichen Flchen, das fast schon zu dster fr dieses Album ist. Auf Ungesungene Tanzrckstnde hrt man monotone hochrfrequente Loops. Es gibt das groartig betitelte Stuhlwasser mit Billigorgel oder die seltsamen Kirmesstimmen bei Der im Keller. Liebelei mit cheesy Streichern und Gesang htte den einen oder anderen Partykeller in den 70ern beschallen knnen. Auf Schrittbinder hrt man kuriose Schellen, Fiasko wre in einem Paralleluniversum vielleicht ein Soundtrack zu einer Krimiserie gewesen, zu einer Zeit, als es nur zwei Fernsehprogramme gab. Interessanterweise htte man ein Stck wie Dem Morgen graut durchaus auch auf einer reinen Tietchens-Verffentlichung der letzten Jahre finden knnen. Das lapidar betitelte Das wars dann schliet die erste LP ab.
Chestnut Ameis erffnet das zweite Album mit der seltsamen Kirmesmusik von Speckpumpe. Otto Bekkers lsst den Hrenden bei Peyote-Melodie zu Bontempiorgel schunkeln, Unknown Singing Objects, die bisher ein paar Singles verffentlicht haben, steuern eine seltsame Ballade voll Blut und Knochenmark bei. Auf Phantomschmerz ist Felix Kubin mit Retroscifi Lounge zu hren. Sehr schn ist Martellato des 2013 verstorbenen Heinz Funk. Jetztmann endet lo-fi mit dementen Vocals.
Im beiliegenden Blatt wird die Geschichte des Aroma Clubs augenzwinkernd dargelegt. Hhepunke waren etwa Mikadotanz-Abende, Kriechkeller-Parties und Hodenbaden unter der fachkundigen Observanz von Dr. Kurt Euler ob die Liedertafel Margot Honecker dabei Lieder schmetterte, bleibt unerwhnt." [MG / African Paper]