The Aural Rear-view Mirror (Retro Collage), by Christian H. Sötemann

The Aural Rear-view Mirror (Retro Collage)

by Christian H. Sötemann

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1.	The Aural Rear-view Mirror I 01:03	info	buy track
2.	A Deadline for the Living (Excerpt) 05:52	info	buy track
3.	Karl-Marx-Stadt 04:07	info	buy track
4.	Cloud Suite (Memory in the Land of Evening Steel/Golden Ether/Rehte Nedlog/Arbitrarily Often Geschreddert) 20:28	info	buy track
5.	Sine World IX 00:30	info	buy track
6.	Encounter in the Dark 01:12	info	buy track
7.	Chinese Porcelain Vase (Edit) 01:25	info	buy track
8.	New Minimalist II 00:21	info	buy track
9.	Inauspicious 00:38	info	buy track
10.	Mirrit (Excerpt) 06:33	info	buy track
11.	The Aural Rear-view Mirror II 01:49	info	buy track
12.	Being (Edit) 02:40	info	buy track
13.	London Tube 00:59	info	buy track
14.	Electronic Alienation II 03:57	info	buy track
15.	Sine World V 01:12	info	buy track
16.	Fast Lane Driver 01:29	info	buy track
17.	New Minimalist VII (Remix) 02:30	info	buy track
18.	Kick Out the Disc (Re-recording) 03:39	info	buy track
19.	The Thing Itself (Edit) 04:34	info	buy track
20.	Emptiness in a Hundred Faces 03:16	info	buy track
21.	Two Pictures (Re-recording) 01:48	info	buy track
22.	Sedatives 02:54	info	buy track
23.	Rotterdam (Re-recording) 05:40	info	buy track
24.	The Aural Rear-view Mirror III 01:18	info	buy track

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This album is a collection of various works recorded and released under my own name – rather than the name cryptic scenery – between ca. 1995 and 2005. It was originally planned to be released on CD in 2008 or so, but lack of funds meant indefinite postponement.

With a number of adjustments, the collection is now available here. It is a collage as well as a collection, since the music contained here goes into a number of different directions, making for at times challenging listening.

For those who only prefer to listen to the Ambient/Drone/minimalist/noise material, you may be inclined to exclude the six songs in the sequence, appearing at positions 18 to 23.

A number of tracks have been tweaked, remixed or re-recorded. The re-recordings date back to 2005, and no material recorded after 2005 is included here. Most of the releases many of the tracks were part of are no longer available. However, I have also uploaded several of the full releases to the Internet Archive, where further listening is possible should you so wish.

Please refer to the individual tracks to see where they originated from.

I would like to thank all the underground labels and collaborators over the years who were open to releasing some of my music.

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released January 25, 2020

Music, words, performance and construction by Christian H. Sötemann.

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cryptic scenery Berlin, Germany

cryptic scenery was founded in late 1994. Since then, the project has released a number of CDs, CD-Rs, vinyl records, tapes and mp3s on a variety of labels. The musical style ranges from hypnotic new wave songs to Ambient and drone pieces, from minimalist sketches to electronic tracks. The project was founded and still is led by Christian H. Sötemann. ... more

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