HERMANN NITSCH requiem 3LP box 1977 avant fluxus experimental la monte young
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Hermann Nitsch "Requiem. 56a azione, Chiesa di S. Lucia, Bologna" 3LP box Edizioni Lotta Poetica for the Radiotaxi series (13-14-15) in collaboration with Studio Morra (0729) in Italy, 1977. Includes a 36-page book with poster. ****** 3xRec:m- / Box:ex / Book:m ****** Your chance to get what is possibly the rarest of all Nitsch editions. The fantastic "Requiem" in the ultra-limited Radiotaxi layout box set edition. Hermann Nitsch "Requiem für meine Frau Beate" took place in the Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Bologna, Italy, in 1977 shortly after Beate Nitsch's death. This was not only one of the strongest and most powerful aktionen by Hermann Nitsch but also a crucial point in the development of his art. Beginning in 1977, Beate Nitsch was travelling in Schwarzwald. She has been inaugurating a nursery-school and wanted to meet some relatives in Stuttgart when, near Ulm, she had a terrible car accident. Beate had supported her husband's art not only sharing the sentimental part of their life but also actively collaborating to the organization of his work. She organized the purchase of a castle in Prinzendorf, the central place where Nitsch would develop his Orgien Mysterien Theater. For Hermann Nitsch, this loss was a complete collapse. He suddenly felt to be on the opposite side of life, alone and full of despair. In those days, he reached the deepest point of black unhappiness. Nitsch decided then to go Naples where he organized a Lehraktion at Morra Gallery. His friend Kubelka joined him from the USA. During the Lehraktion, he was told about a big Performance Festival that would have taken place in Bologna. Nitsch was invited to participate with an aktion to be performed in a big old church. It was clear to Nitsch that he would have conceived an aktion dedicated to the memory of Beate. A requiem, even. Before the aktion in Bologna, Hermann Nitsch's music was basically released as a wall of noise. The musicians could play what they wanted and the only instruction was to play as loud as possible. Only the duration, the starting point and the noise level of each instrument was fixed. For the first time with the Requiem, Nitsch started to conceive longer tone clusters, specially for the wind instruments. The perfect acoustics of the church with its wonderful organ, which shocked Nitsch with its intensity and power, suggested him a new direction in music. Among the lucky audience were many friends coming from all over the world to witness the event. For everyone the Requiem was an important and ecstatic experience. The big success of the aktion gave Nitsch the strength to continue his work. Shortly after Bologna he was invited to create new aktionen in Canada and Los Angeles. At its most basic, this "Requiem" is composed of a steady bed of shrieking wind instruments, on top of which various brass players intervene in short, often single-note bursts. The music is propelled by a drumming whose style is both drunken and militant. There are no “movements” to the piece but there is the sense of rising and falling intensity. Somewhere between Coltrane’s "Ascension" and the aggressive noise of Merzbow "Requiem für Meine Frau Beate" is a record both terrifying and transcendent, a dense monolith of sound as impenetrable as a man’s sorrow! ****** Some very minimal box wear (see photo). ****** The record looks like it has never been played. Top conditions! ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered: to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.
