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ARTIST
FOYER DES ARTS
TITLE
Die John-Peel-Session
FORMAT
12"
LABEL
TAPETE RECORDS
CATALOG #
TR 510EP
TR 510EP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
8/12/2022
The author
Max Goldt
is well known to the general public. Not so the musician Max Goldt, who came across the guitarist and songwriter
Gerd Pasemann
through a classified ad in 1978. Their joint collaboration in the 1980s resulted in the musically contrasting project
Foyer des Arts
: "Melancholic, sometimes resigned tracks alternated as a matter of course with comic and surreal ones," wrote Max Goldt in the booklet to his CD box set
Draußen die herrliche Sonne
. In 1986, after a two-year delay, Foyer des Arts released their sophomore album
Die Unfähigkeit zu Frühstücken
. BBC Radio DJ
John Peel
liked Foyer des Arts so much that he not only played all the songs from the album
Die Unfähigkeit zu Frühstücken
several times on his show. Gerd Pasemann and Max Goldt were ultimately invited to record a (John) Peel Session, a rare and distinguished honor for a German-speaking band. The Berlin duo made their way to London in October 1986, where they were joined by three members of
The Higsons
, an energetic combo with plenty of experience as session musicians. Indeed, they only needed one rehearsal to learn the four songs that Foyer des Arts brought with them, two from the aforementioned album and two brand new tunes: "Könnten Bienen Fliegen" and "Frauen In Frieden Und Freiheit". Recording took place the following afternoon in the legendary Maida Vale Studio 4, the regular home for the Peel Sessions. "The musicians were excellent and the atmosphere was really relaxed," Max Goldt recalls, "and afterwards we met John Peel in his favorite pub, The Vine Bar." In the year 2000 Goldt asked the BBC what had happened to the session tapes, only to learn that they had probably been wiped. This was not a huge surprise, as the BBC archives were notoriously unreliable. Entire
Dusty Springfield
shows disappeared, apparently deleted. Twenty years later, the Cologne-based sound engineer
Tom Morgenstern
, with the help of a colleague from the BBC, managed to unearth the lost tapes. And here they are, 35 years on, as fresh as the day they were made.
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