Bruno Spoerri - Glückskugel (1971)

Bruno Spoerri - Glückskugel (1971)


Bruno Spoerri - Glückskugel (1971 - 1980/2006 Finders Keepers)
Album: Bruno Spoerri - Glückskugel
Released: 2006
Genre: Electronic-, Experimental-, Avant-Krautrock, Soundtrack Music
Gnosis Rating: 10.26
Finders Keepers - FKR008CD

Finders Keepers Records continue their odyssey (or should that be 'odd'ysey?) for releasing strange and wonderful music with this compilation of Bruno Spoerri's magnificent mad (and sometimes downright funky!) electronic music from the 70s.
Glückskugel is the first ever collection of musical works of BRUNO SPOERRI, the mythical character who worked with members of legendary Krautrockers CAN, composed music for engineering companies and made motivational music for industrial sites and factories utilising concrete techniques, primitive sampling techniques and contemporary experimental psych-rock and funk musicians.
Bruno also composed embryonic pre-Nintendo sprite-themes for the Germanic equivalents of It's A Knock Out and various Takeshi's Castle style fantasy sporting events - as well as educational robot sex films and art school cinematic anomalies.
Packed with rare and previously unseen photographs and detailed liners by Bruno, and following the success of Jazzman Records long deleted and HIGHLY collectable 7" reissue a few years ago, this unique collection of Bruno's vast, and largely unheard until today, body of work is sure to go on to similar critical and commercial success! - Freak Emporium

Truly, madly, deeply - a treasure... - MOJO SOUNDTRACK RE-ISSUE OF THE YEAR 2006

love Bruno's sense of irony which inables him to turn banal electronic sounds into charming and poetic objects trouves - IRMIN SCHMIDT (CAN)

Here's something rather special from Andy Votel's killer re-issues label Finders Keepers, this time it's a collection of vintage synth bleepage in the vein of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop or Raymond Scott, and comes from German sound designer Bruno Spoerri. He was a regular collaborator with German Krautrock superheroes Can and designed many themes for German television shows such as 'It's a Knockout' and music for educational films, promotional films and motivational videos so the man knows his way around a modular or two. This is classic stuff anyway, occasionally sounding like Italian synth-prog pioneers Goblin or horror soundtrack don Fabio Frizzi with Spoerri's Krautrock roots shining through vibrantly. However, many of the tracks on this compilation owe as much to musique concrete as to prog rock, and his oddball sampling technique (if he was doing a promo piece for an industrial company he would sample their machines) is quite endearing. Easily one of the best compilations of it's kind for some time, this is a truly endearing collection. - boomkat.com

A Swiss jazz musician, principally a saxophonist, with an apprenticeship on the Swiss jazz scene in the 1950's and 1960's, as a widely sought after session musician and leader of his own jazz-fusion groups. He has also collaborated with Joel Vandroogenbroeck, and is a member of the bands Container and Movin' On, and is also widely respected for his adventurousness and penchant for experimentation.
He has worked in all sorts of musics, and ventured on to becoming one of foremost pioneers in synth musics. Bruno's change of focus came about when he first dabbled with a synthesizer. Unsure of how this new trend of blips and twitters mixed in with rock and jazz would be received, he released the first such record under the guise of Marcel Ferrat. It was a cult success, and thus a number of other chic quirky EP's, somewhat in the manner of Pierre Henry's "Mass For The Present Time" or the eclectic Maledictus Sound.
Bruno's mid-1970's output is obscure, and includes the fun looking SWITCHED ON SWITZERLAND for synthesizer and accordion, and a collaborative project with Hardy Hepp, amongst other oddities. The next releases we have encountered date from 1978, albums of diverse electronic invention with jazzy bits thrown in. Shortly after these, Bruno came to international attention, via his work with Can's Irmin Schmidt on his FILMMUSIK projects, and notably the Toy Planet project. His output since has been sporadic and diverse, with the oddly titled AX+BY+CZ+D=0 made together with sound sculpture artist Betha Sarasin being one of his finest. - "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg", Encyclopedia of Krautrock

Bruno Spoerri, composer, sound engineer and saxaphone player, has composed film music for feature films, many short films, documentaries and over 500 commercials.
His projects have included numerous works for improvising musicians with interactive electronic devices, especially for the "Very Nervous System" (David Rokeby) and interactive Computer Music Installations for exhibitions. He has been seen on tour in Europe with Joel Chadabe, and with Joel Vandroogenbroeck. He has performed in the USA at the Composer's Forum New York, Princeton University, Colgate University, and Rensselaer. He's been featured at Canada's McGill University in Montreal and traveled to India and Africa with solo program "CAJ (Computer-asssisted jazz)" and in a Duo with percussionist Reto Weber.
He co-founded the "Swiss Society for Computer Music" in 1982 and served as the co-director of the "Swiss Center for Computer Music" from 1985 until 2000.
He currently plays saxophone with "Four for Mulligan". He also plays saxophone, synthophone and other electronic instruments in Solo Performances and with "Cyberjam-X - CDeMUSIC

Life was hectic during the seventies - every week I had to produce at least one TV-jingle, and then there were numerous other assignments for documentary films, radio plays, PR-campaigns. And then I had a family (that I neglected badly with all this workload). No wonder, that I lost track of all the music that I produced - often within a few hours - during that time.
Most of these tapes were hidden away behind other material, and I discovered them, when I decided to get rid of all this old rubbish. And then I began to play the tapes, and began to remember these early times of analog synthesizers, of tape loops etc etc.
After all, they were not so bad, and at least two items had already been discovered by some fans - the original discs of 'Electroniciens' and 'Konzert für Mressluftwerkzeuge' seem to be collector's items.
So, with the help of DJ Dino Lötscher I got into contact with Andy Votel, who encouraged me to look for some more material. I am still listening and perhaps I even will find some more interesting things. - Bruno Spoerri

1 Glückskugel - Title (01:07)
2 Glückskugel - The Race (02:20)
3 Oederlin (04:08)
4 Les Electroniciens (04:36)
5 Soft Art Theme (04:37)
6 Lilith - Singing In The Dark (01:48)
7 Lilith - The Dance (04:32)
8 Lilth - On The Way (03:26)
9 Drillin' (03:18)
10 Wer Gwünnt (Who Wins?) (01:50)