condition (record/cover): NM / EX-

Edition of 250 numbered copies (this copy is unumbered). Paste-on cover.

A later-Korm-Plastics LP by Tesendalo, the long-running project of German composer Peter Schuster. Wendezeit (German for "time of turning," a term that had acquired its distinct political charge in the aftermath of the 1989 German reunification) was released by Korm Plastics in 1995 in a 250-copy edition, placing it firmly in the label's mid-Nineties small-press aesthetic.

Schuster's method as Tesendalo is dark-ambient territory, but with a distinct weight and gravity that separates the project from the glossier Nineties ambient mainstream. Three long-form pieces ("Wendezeit 1," "Wendezeit 2," "Wendezeit 3") elaborate slowly-evolving drone beds with subtle liminal detail, processed acoustic material, and deliberately ambiguous spatial positioning. The political resonance of the title is not underscored: the record's sense of historical turning-point is built into the sound rather than articulated in direct reference.

Tesendalo had circulated through various cassette and small-press formats across the late Eighties and early Nineties (including the 1992 LP Suite De Sons on the Marginal Talent imprint, itself limited to 100 copies), and Wendezeit fits the same disciplined small-edition approach. The record was remastered in subsequent years by Jos Smolders's 4 & Rising facility, but the original 1995 Korm Plastics LP remains the primary object. A quiet, patient, and unjustly neglected German dark-ambient document.