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CASSIBER - The Cassiber Box (1982-1992): 40th Annniversary Cassiber Box (redux)

Format: 6 x CD + 1 DVD in BOX Label & Cat.Number: ReR MegaCorp ReRCBOX Release Year: 2023 Note: box re-issue of the four studio albums by this highly political, poetic & mind-provoking German avantgarde-band (feat. CHRIS CUTLER on drums) who established a unique style, plus collaborative projects & unreleased material on two more CDs, +2 hours of concert & studio material on the DVD (Frankfurt 1982, Sao Paolo 1984, and a documentary from East Berlin 1989 at Akademie der Künste in DDR!) along with a 32p. full colour booklet with lots of texts & photos!! RE-PRESS for the 40th anniversary Price (incl. 19% VAT): €50.00 More Info Long out of print, this is the definitive Cassiber collection in a solid box and fully documented. Made up of the Four classic studio albums, re-mastered by Bob Drake, two extra CD collections: The Way it Was – an amazing set of studio sketches and live recordings with guest appearances by Dietmar Diesner and Rene Lussier and Collaborations, documenting three extended special projects: Duck and Cover – with the addition of Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause, Tom Cora and George Lewis, Cassix – a recording project from Montepulciano with half of Stormy Six; and one track from Otomo Yoshihide/Ground Zero’s Cassiber Live in Tokyo with Shinoda Masami Remix project, as well as a two hour DVD of live and studio footage from Brasil, Frankfurt and Berlin - including a mini-documentary made during the recording of A Face We All Know. The new edition comes in a sturdy box with 40 pages of documents, interviews, information, photographs, pictures, itineraries and miscellaneous memorabilia. Context: In 1982 Cassiber crashed into the Deutsche Neue Welle. Founded by Heiner Goebbels, Alfred Harth, Christoph Anders and Chris Cutler, they fused experimental rock, fringe jazz, punk, pop, plunderphonics, improvisation and musique concrete into a complex form of studio - and then concert – composition that was unique in mashing experimental form with a risky and expressionist mode of execution. In content and aesthetics, Cassiber tracked and anticipated the political and technological changes of its times, shifting, over its 10 years of existence, from the high stakes energy of the earlier releases to the more composed and complex studio works of its later years. Most impressively, Cassiber opened up song form by abandoning, extending or crashing sideways into it – and by creating unlikely structures from a combination of noise, libido, high musicality, dramaturgy and cultural debris.