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Floh De Cologne

Mumien (LP)

FormatLPLabelPläneGenrePsychedelia & Kraut

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Original edition on Pläne of the 1975 album by the political/experimental group with an amazing gatefold book sleeve by HR Giger. NWW list.

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Gatefold book-sleeve.

Floh de Cologne began as a troupe of radical Cologne theatre students and spent the 1970s making some of the most uncompromisingly political rock in Germany, agitprop welded to fuzz and Hammond. Mumien (1974), subtitled a cantata for rock band, is their response to the Pinochet coup in Chile the previous September, going so far as to set the final radio address of the deposed president Salvador Allende to music.

Recorded for Pläne at Conny Plank's studio, it trades some of the rawness of the band's Ohr years for a folkier, narrative sweep, the better to carry its story. The grim fold-out sleeve was designed by H.R. Giger, and it is half the artifact. Polemical, period-bound, and unlike anything else in the sale.

Details
File under: Krautrock
Cat. number: S 99 201
Year: 1975

Release notes

Kantate für Rockband

Tracklist
A1Widmung1:50
A2Marsch Der Mumien I1:41
A3Und Die Reichen2:54
A4Marsch Der Mumien II2:33
A5ITT Etc.4:35
A6Oktober '731:42
A7Frühling In Chile1:27
A8Zeugen2:21
B1Du Siehst Das Leid2:22
B2'Freiheitskämpfer'1:14
B3Salvador Allende4:38
B4Gegen Den Hunger2:22
B5Marsch Der Mumien III3:36
B6Des Volkes Fesseln3:45
Credits
HR Giger
Artwork
Dick Städtler
Bass, Composed By, Guitar, Vocals
Vridolin Enxing
Composed By, Organ, Piano
Hansi Frank
Drums, Narrator
Theo König
Flute, Narrator, Saxophone, Vocals
Dieter Klemm
Narrator, Percussion
Gerd Wollschon
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