Tracklisting:
Neue Musik Für Flöte(n) (Mediadisc #MD 2015, 1987)
1-01. Dodeci Pezzi - Für Flöte Und Live-Elektronik (Entstanden 1985 in Olevano/Rom) (21:40)
1-02. Wie Ein Dünner Schleier (1986) - Für Flöte Solo (3:44)
1-03. Die Taube Des Fernen Pinienhaines (Psalm 56) (1985) - Für Baßflöte Solo (6:25)
1-04. Hommage A Telemann (1981) - Für Flöten Und Live-Elektronik (10:19)
Imaginations I (Mediadisc #MD 2018, 1988)
1-05. Le Matin De Bonne Heure (11:06)
1-06. La Mer Calme (11:08)
2-01. Les Montagnes De Grande Ville (10:31)
2-02. Au Coucher Du Soleil (8:04)
Neue Musik Für Flöte(n) Vol. 2 (Mediadisc #MD 2021, 1989)
2-03. Adagio (1980) für Flöte in G (5:06)
2-04. Mobile II (1975) für Flöte - revidierte Fassung 1989 (10:49)
2-05. Andantino (1982) - Version für Baßflöte (6:08)
2-06. Piece (1981) für Flöte und Flöte in G (5:36)
2-07. Blow Away (1972) für Flöte solo (9:10)
2-08. Elegie (1985) Version für Großbaßflöte in G (6:10)
[CP 310-311 CD] Helmut W. Erdmann, Heinz W. Burow; Neue Musik Für Flöte(n x2), Imaginations I
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April 2025 release; wonderful, late-stage discovery of three LPs issued by Heinz-Wilfried Burow (aka. Paul Leslie) on his Mediadisc imprint of (selectively) Avant-Electronic pieces for various Flutes, Synthesizers, and "Live-Elektronik" flourish performed by flautist Helmut W. Erdmann as recorded during the mid-late-80s.
Much like the format/tracklisting of Klaus Hashagen "Percussion und Elektronik" ([CP 174 CD]) set, the first "Neue Musik Für Flöte(n)" volume (MD 2015) features a side-length work, "Dodeci Pezzi - Für Flöte Und Live-Elektronik (Entstanden 1985 in Olevano/Rom)" that meshes quite virtuosic flurries of increasingly difficult/bizarre sine-tone phraseology with realtime Electronic Interference, paving the way for the B-side's extended "Hommage A Telemann (1981) - Für Flöten Und Live-Elektronik".
The successive Burow/Erdmann collaborative LP, "Imaginations I" (MD 2018) by all appearances could believably work the more placid/nuage end of things but is in fact an experiment in merging live flute playing over ostinato & arpeggiated synth timbres in a manner that could only rightfully be described as "Proto Acid" - it's a wonderful set that avoids the exact sort of genre-trappings that would normally put such an affair on the European Grey-Area press-blitz reissue-program radar, which is in effect why its such a perfect C.P. candidate.
Finally, the second "Neue Musik Für Flöte(n)" set (MD 2021) playfully renders many original Erdmann solo flute works real alongside those by Helmut Bieler & Peter Hoch; while aligning itself firmly within the "Performer's Repertoire" lane, it offers many twists & turns that grant the listener a unique window into Erdmann's particular aesthetic.
Wonderful edition, working the more recent "Three-Lane" format (overviews of the original LP covers/labels/rears on the outside, detail of the latters on the inside) while condensing everything conveniently onto two discs. This is a great, late-stage example of exactly the sort of records waiting out in the wilds for such a reapparaisal.
PS. I've long held the belief that; as the series' initial ca. 2005 purview-focus of "1948-1984" itself becomes 20 years old, that we could just as easily push the latter-end of the date-spectrum forward an appropriate amount of notches. This set's later material (recorded & issued at the cusp of the 90s by my estimation) furthers this idea beautifully...
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