HARTMUT GEERKEN - Requiem for the Snake of Maidan 2LP Pre order Having played in the shadows

Having played in the shadows for other artists such as Milton Nascimento

these myriad musical strains are tied together through a conceptual framework gleaned from the Grateful Dead

The titles come from Yoko Ono

Two different points of view which make a unique and precise vision together

and whose sound is similar in character to Tibetan bowls or Gamelan

HARTMUT GEERKEN - Requiem for the Snake of Maidan 2LP Pre order Having played in the shadowsEdition of 500 copies, double LP with inserts. towards the end of the 1970s, a film about me and my work was made in kabul for the south german tv program. the director was arpad bondy. in order to find a venue for my music that is typical for afghanistan, it was agreed that my percussion environment, a tubular cube of 2x2x2 meters including the associated instruments, would be transported on a barren, stony ridge in the hindukush mountains. the