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Ernst Jandl (1925-2000)



Laut Und Luise (1968)

  1. Falamaleikum
  2. Talk
  3. Die Tassen
  4. Tohuwabohu
  5. 16 Jahr
  6. EtŸde In F
  7. Wo Bleibb Da
  8. Wien: Heldenplatz
  9. Schtzngrmm
  10. Ode Auf N
  11. Fragment
  12. Lichtung
  13. Chanson
  14. Calypso
  15. Ernst Jandls Weihnachtslied
  16. Eulen
  17. Doppelchor
  18. Auf Dem Land
  19. Viel Vieh
  20. Zweierlei Handzeichen
  21. Bestiarium
Radiophone Texte (1977)

  1. George MacBeth Introduction (2:08)
  2. In the Country (3:54)
  3. Longing (1:57)
  4. Pain through Friction (:49)
  5. Niagara Falls (3:07)
  6. In the Realm of the Dead (2:29)
  7. Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man (:43)
  8. Prayer (1:50)
  9. Einsamkeit - Loneliness (1:21)
  10. War Poem - The Trenches (1:13)
  11. Ode to N (1:49)
  12. Talk (:52)
  13. Rope Ladder (1:28)
  14. A Study in Bureaucracy - Office with Swallows (4:03)


Total time 28:00
Cassette released by S Press Tonbandverlag, Düsseldorf & München, Germany, 1977

Austrian poet Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) was a key figure of German sound poetry, famous for his play with the language and hilarious public lectures where his version of the Viennese accent added to an inexhaustible aural creativity. Recorded in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in July 1966, this cassette documents a performance conceived for writer/producer George MacBeth's poetry programme, as part of the BBC's Third Programme series devoted to contemporary poets. Also including Bob Cobbing, for instance, MacBeth's show was the first to present sound poetry and concrete poetry on the Beeb.

The extraordinary plasticity of Jandl's voice is enhanced by re-recording, tape speed change, sound effects and montage, courtesy of the Workshop's technicians, to create lively evocations based on Jandl's own book "Laut und Luise", published that same year (1966). While one clearly hears echoes of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonata and the Dada soirées at Cabaret Voltaire, the resulting aural vignettes are also close to musique concrète and hšrspiel. The collaboration between Jandl and the BBC's sound technicians yielded wonderful results, with some tracks verging on plain choral music and others closer to obscure shamanist songs. 13 Radiophone Texte was issued on cassette in 1977 by S Press Tonbandverlag, or S Press Tapes, a German publisher of avantgarde music and poetry reading, especially by Beat poets like Ferlinghetti, Giorno, Ginsberg or Kerouac. It was founded in 1970 by Angela & Michael Köhler with Nikolaus Einhorn, and released cassettes and LPs.

Liner notes by Continuo.

Presented in collaboration with Continuo


bist eulen? (1984)

  1. tohuwabohu (Jandl/Rüegg)
  2. glückwunsch (Jandl/Schabata)
  3. calypso (Jandl/Schabata)
  4. sehnsucht (Jandl/Newton)
  5. justice (Jandl/Puschnig)
  6. der wahre vogel (Jandl/Puschnig)
  7. auf dem land (Jandl/Rüegg)
  8. viel (vieh) (Jandl/rüegg)
  9. bitte keine musik I (Jandl/Schabata)
  10. die mutter und das kind (Jandl/Puschnig)
  11. chanson (Jandl/Rüegg)
  12. da (Jandl/Puschnig)
  13. bericht über malmö (Jandl/Rüegg)
  14. die morgenfeier (Jandl/Schabata)
  15. my heart leaps up (in free translation) (Jandl, William Wordsworth/Newton)
  16. amt mit schwalben (Jandl/Newton)
  17. eulen (Jandl/newton)
  18. bitte keine musik II (Jandl/Puschnig)
  19. falken und tauben (Jandl)

total time: 34'47

Recorded by Michael Kornhäusl at Studio Kornhäusl, Vienna, March 1984.
Produced by Harald Quendler & Matthias Rüegg.
Cover design by Kraner und Hofmann, art work by Papan.
[CD: Extraplatte, Austria, 1994; EX 316141-2 - LP originally released in 1984]


vom vom zum zum (1988)


1. deutsches gedicht (22:38)
2. wanderung (3:10)
3. augenspiel (2:43)
4. painful love (0:58)
5. what you can do without vowels (2:48)
6. ein ichmich (2:09)
7. bettler (1:53)
8. gut kleid (2:46)
9. waschender pianist (1:24)
10. pi (2:16)
11. 20 klavierstücke (0:39)
12. bald kann er eine okatve spannen (1:31)
13. sonatine (2:01)
14. etüde in f (1:51)
15. zimmerbild (5:09)
16. sentimental journey (1:39)
17. wiener trilogie (6:20)



Ernst Jandl - stimme
Lauren Newton - gesang
Uli Scherer - klavier & stimme Wolfgang Puschnig - Holzblasinstrumente + Stimme Mathias Rüegg - Projekteitung


Aufgenommen am 19. + 20. april 1988, im studio benkö

From the LP vom vom zum zum, 1988, Extraplatte Records



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