Nov-89

The album November 89 comprises a selection of very early Gas tracks, some of which date back to the late 1980s. They were first released in 2008 as a CD insert in the art book ‘Wolfgang Voigt GAS’, published on Raster-Noton. Just like the photographs in the book, these pieces are early precursors that would evolve in the ensuing years with the albums Zauberberg and Knigsforst into a style-defining, audiovisual Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) comprising hypnotically focused forest imagery and an abstract, psychedelic wash of sound created by alphorn and bass drum. The album is now available on vinyl for the first time. This effectively completes the existing Gas vinyl series by adding the “first” album, which had previously been missing. The cover art makes direct reference to the album Oktember, released in 1999. The highly hypnotic, dense forest motif served as the basis for one of the first ‘Oktember’ Waldloops (forest-loops) works that have increasingly found their way into international galleries and art venues over the years.