The Verein zur Tonbandjagd Schweiz (Swiss Tape Hunting Association) 🇨🇭

 

The Verein zur Tonbandjagd Schweiz (Swiss Tape Hunting Association) takes care of the archiving of exciting stocks of original studio tapes. Under the label Plasma Records & Tapes, analog direct copies of original tapes from this collection are published in small editions. Thanks to the cultural work of Steff Bossert, it has been possible to release the tape copy Chlöisu Friedli - Studio Sessions - Herbst 1980 bis April 1981 as a lovingly designed product. 

Chlöisu Friedli's impressive musical work is still remembered today. He possessed a very good power of observation and the ability to narrate his experiences in short, concise sentences and to set the scene with his music on the piano. His fragmentary texts, which are nonetheless full of meaning, build up into stories in the listener's mind. Tscharni-Blues, for example, is about the Tscharnergut residential area in the Swiss city of Bern, which was planned and built on a field between 1959 and 1965. The meadow where the boys used to fly kites fell victim to urban planning. Then Chlöisu's father died. He missed him very much. His mother met a new man... The booklet reveals that his genius was countered by depression. He could neither cope with regular work nor with starting a family. Hospital stays and medication became part of his life. With his experiences and the resulting quintessence, he paints a profound picture of his person and gives us a view of the thoughts that moved him as a young man. At the age of 32, Friedli decided to end his life. Although these lines are read bitterly, the album is much less gloomy than I thought. I don't get the impression that Chlöisu Friedli is trying to treat himself through his music; rather, he focuses on the factual presentation of his themes, peppered with a good dose of humor. The sound engineer Adi Tosetto tells of particularly intimate moments during the recordings, which were played live on tape in the studio in 1981/82 with piano and vocals.

The features of this master tape copy are magnificent: the eight-page booklet was produced using the analog offset printing process and hand-stitched by Steff Bossert. Videos of the production process can be found under the link: https://tonbandjagd.ch/chloisu-friedli-studio-sessions. An RTM SM 911 tape is mounted on a high-quality metal reel from Feinwerktechnik Allgäu. The hinged cardboard box was provided with a front and back sticker. To make the texts accessible to a wider audience, they have been translated from Bernese Swiss German. They are available in German and English. If you download them and print them out on both sides, you will have two sheets that can be cut to size and placed in the tape box. 

As the original tapes are in very good condition, they could be used for production without any post-processing. The tapes were transferred between the Studer C37 (playback device) and Telefunken M15A (recording device) tape recorders, which had been revised and calibrated by professional technicians. 

This master tape copy is in the top sonic class. The fluidly played blues conveys the intimate atmosphere of the recording and is characterized by excellent melody lines, powerful and expressive vocals. I am very pleased with this very authentic, 100% analog-produced work.

NEW REVIEW BY CLAUS MÜLLER ABOUT CHLÖISU FRIEDLI - STUDIO SESSIONS - HERBST 1980 BIS APRIL 1981

Fully analog production, handmade with love, limited to 75 copies, fair price!

Check it out here: https://www.audiotapereview.com/0792024chloeisufriedlistudio

More Info:

https://tonbandjagd.ch/chloisu-friedli-studio-session

Thanking Steff Bossert  and Claus Müller 💫🍀💎💫