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KLEISTWAHR - Winter / Music for Zeitgeist Fighters

Format: do-CD Label & Cat.Number: Fourth Dimension Records - FD2CD158 Release Year: 2025 Note: these are the KLEISTWAHR recordings from the great 'Corrosion' 10 x cassette box, and a vinyl from the mysterious Nashazphone label! - "Solemn drones and elegiac long-form passages gird Kleistwahr’s Winter, which often chimes, glistens, and glows through a unhurried constructs for organ, synth, guitar, and electronics. Yet Mundy pivots throughout with triumphant explosions of shrill noise, redlined overload, and harrowingly anguished vocals from the great unknown. Quintessential Kleistwahr." - 300 copies pressed Price (incl. 19% VAT): €16.00 More Info https://garymundykleistwahr.bandcamp.com/album/winter-music-for-zeitgeist-fighters-2 This is the first CD release of the Kleistwahr albums Winter and Music for Zeitgeist Fighters. The albums previously appeared on vinyl. Winter was originally released on cassette in 2019 as part of the On Corrosion box set compilation released by the Helen Scarsdale Agency. The same label reissued it on vinyl in 2021. Music for Zeitgeist Fighters was released on the Nashazphone label on vinyl in 2017. This 2CD set is released by Fourth Dimension Records. With the end of Vital Weekly rapidly approaching, is there something lost? As in, for me? Something I will regret? Absolutely. For one, it is no longer receiving music from musicians whose work I have enjoyed for a long time, and you know where this is going: Gary Mundy's Kleistwahr is such a project. I am a fan, but not one to rush out and buy every record. Luckily, there's Fourth Dimension Records to reissue the limited vinyl onto a format I prefer: the CD. This double CD contains the LP 'Winter', first released by the Helen Scarsdale Agency in 2021 (an edition of 300 copies), and the 'Music For Zeitgeist Fighters' on Nashazphone in 2017, also in an edition of 300 copies. I missed out on both of them, but, as said, always welcome on a CD, especially with five bonus pieces. Following Kleistwahr's output in recent years, which has been substantial since the restart in 2009, a discernible 'signature sound' can be noted. A few words always spring to mind, and noise is an obvious one, but not noise for the sake of noise. Through the use of reverb, spread across all of Mundy's instruments (guitars, vocals, synths), the sound is dark and ominous, even orchestral. Mundy likes his music to be massive, even in its more vulnerable moments. These arrive using soaring, mournful organ tones, another trademark of the Kleistwahr sound. A tremendous howl of dystopian proportions. A word that fits Kleistwahr's music is psychedelic; not rainbow-coloured, hippy-dippy stuff, but various shades of black and grey, and with the epic length of the pieces, usually between 10 and 20 minutes, there's time for the music to develop and for the listener to be on a spacious drift, into the vast unknown realm of a black hole. While these records are from some years apart, it's interesting to note the differences and similarities, with 'Winter' seemingly having a slightly broader instrumental palette. Still, it's music by the same musician, and the quality of it all is excellent. The bonus tracks on both discs are earlier/alternative versions of the official pieces, and mark some interesting variations. Especially 'Music For Fucked Films' is quite a different thing altogether, but all five offer something different from the main work, and not just for completists.