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01. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Indisches Panorama I
02. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - I'm Hiding My Nightingale
03. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - There Was A Man
04. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Im Tempel
05. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - In Kalkutta III
06. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Indisches Panorama II
07. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - In Kalkutta I
08. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Im Orient
09. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Indisches Panorama III
10. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Mundharmonika Beat
11. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Indisches Panorama IV
12. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - I'm Around You Everyday
13. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Indisches Panorama V
14. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Indisches Panorama VI
15. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - Indische Liebesszene
16. IRMIN SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE - In Kalkutta II
ARTIST
TITLE
Kamasutra
FORMAT
CD

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CDHW 108CD CDHW 108CD
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RELEASE DATE
12/21/2009

Limited restock. Crippled Dick Hot Wax presents Kamasutra -- an unreleased soundtrack from 1968 composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space. No overlap in content with the other recent Inner Space release, Agilok & Blubbo, released by Wah Wah Records earlier in 2009. Better late than never? A good four decades after its making, a rare gem is up for release: the soundtrack to Kobi Jaeger's erotic and educational epic Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love. A precursor to Krautrock pioneers Can, Schmidt's 1968 recording assembles Can's original line-up -- Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Malcolm Mooney -- who later went on to craft the band's seminal debut, Monster Movie. The film Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love switches between India and Germany and stars Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schöne. A prime example of late-1960s German erotica and the so-called sexual revolution, it liberated the subject of sex from dingy red light cinemas and whisked it away to the exotic Far East, to the realm that -- more than a millennium earlier -- had spawned the erotic teachings of the Kamasutra. Fast-forward to the present day, and you will find the film's well-intentioned, in parts pedagogical approach bristling with (un)intentional comedy. Many bands and composers from the late-1960s were intrigued by Eastern philosophy and influenced by sounds of the Orient. Besides several laid-back, percussive instrumentals laced with flutes and sitars, the soundtrack also features three vocal tracks: "I'm Hiding My Nightingale" (sung by Margareta Juvan), "There Was A Man" (sung by Malcolm Mooney) and "I'm Around You Everyday" (sung by Michael Karoli). Kamasutra was mastered from the original analog tapes by Calyx and is available as a CD digipack and limited gatefold double vinyl. Before Irmin Schmidt founded the now-legendary German band Can in 1968, he received a formal musical education and studied composition, piano, conducting and music ethnology. Amongst others his teachers were Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ligeti. Between 1962 and 1969 he conducted numerous orchestras, including his own compositions. During this period, he also composed music for various film and theater productions. Between 1969 and 1978, he worked exclusively with Can (in 2003 they received the prestigious ECHO Lifetime Achievement Award).