Wolfgang Dauner - Output (ECM 1006 - 1970)

 

This was my first (of hundreds to come) ECMs’… this disc and music sure changed my life!

I vaguely remember I was - of course - attracted by the cover; the shop owner in Padua never listened to it neither he knew nothing about label and artist.

A young daredevil me felt confident to spend the hideous 3000 lire price-tag and rushing at home to listen to this newly found 💎.

The disc sounded quite stodgy to my young, virgin ears… nonetheless, a piece - i.e. “Mudations” - first track of side one, captured my senses and I remember I listened to it repeatedly, while my mom sometimes opened my room door and stared at me, with worried eyes… this music was “this” strange and alien.

I kept my nerves and absorbed this completely new nectar…

 

Then - some months after this epiphany - I bought my second ECM’s Ralph Towner’s “Trios/Solos”… and I was hooked for the life.

Strange or not, this first ECM’s also opened my doors of perception toward (now so-called) Krautrock: Tangerine Dreams, Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Temple.

So: thanks Manfred Eicher and Wolfgang Dauner 💫💫💫