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Die Welttraumforscher - Gold vom tiefen Himmel (1993)
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Since their formation in Zurich in 1978, the
Welttraumforscher's music has been moving to and from a field marked
by the cornerstones of the classic pop song as epitomized by Burt
Bacharach or Simon and Garfunkel, the emotional barrenness of Nick
Drake's compositions, the escapism of Syd Barrett and electronic home
recording-miniatures of cinematic dimensions as [co-]developed by Der
Plan and Cabaret Voltaire.
But this band never
consciously flirted with the notion of 'being ahead of their time'. The
Welttraumforscher have always been self-sufficient and completely
independent -- and that goes for their musical as well as their lyrical
content. In their unique way, they are working on everyday myths
(complete with fantasy characters like Kip Eulenmeister and Leguan
Rätselmann). This is not limited to their music but also comes out in
the hand drawn cover art and comic strips. All this they do in their
incomparable, unprejudiced and highly idiosyncratic style.
In
the first 25 years of their existence the band created a body of work
surrounded by a mystic aura similar to that of the Residents -- with
the difference that Welttraumforscher-Mastermind Christian Pfluger has
never tried to stay anonymous. At the beginning of the Eighties he
started the band's own Monif label which henceforth released almost all
of the band's output, at first exclusively on cassettes, and from the
middle of the Eighties also on limited vinyl editions. Since 1993 the
band has also issued their music on CD. (forced exposure)
