RALPH LUNDSTEN+NILSSON 60s ELECTRONIC LP PROG-PSYCH-NWW

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RALPH LUNDSTEN / LEO NILSSON

 TELLUS / FAGEL BLA LP

Telestar

60's experimental electronics from the duo Ralph Lundsten / Leo Nilsson. Scarce original pressing on Telestar

Some info on the release: Mega rare 60's original pressing on swedish Telestar label of Ralph Lundsten & Leo Nilsson's electronic music masterpiece. Primitive experimental electronics back from the early days close to the sound experiments of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Conrad Schnitzler, Pekka Airaksinen, etc. Tellus commissioned by the Swedish Institute to be included in a sight/sound performance at the Triennal in Milan 1968. The theme was "global welfare in social, technical and emotional light". The performance was later staged at the Modern Museum in Stockholm under the name "Masses" and at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Louvren in Paris, entitled "Foultitude". Composed in 1968. Fågel Blå, commissioned by the Foundation for Nationwide Concerts, to act as a festival and inauguration music during the Expo-Norr festival at Ostersund, 1969. The two-channel composition was performed from two giant balloons that floated in the air over the city....the strange effect is that the sounds do not dissipate when over a listener, so that the height of the balloons made no difference. Composed in 1969.

Ralph Lundsten is one of the pioneers of international electronic music with his own studio Andromeda. Recordings are done with his own home-built electronic instruments, some built in cooperation with the Finnish physicist Erkki Kurenniemi. Ralph Lundsten began making music by cutting tapes to his tape recorder and in that way he got sounds that no traditional instruments could give. In 1959, he built his studio Andromeda inside his wooden castle Frankenburg (originally built in 1878) in Boo, and he has kept it state of the art since.

People thought him to be a bit insane to make music in that way but he had some commercial success with the EP he released in 1964, which got airplay on French radio. Among his studio's more interesting instruments are the world's oldest sequencer and polyfony synth (Andromatic), another synth (Dimi-O) playable in the empty air in front of a camera and the playing visible through a display (Ralph says that Led Zeppelin was ready to steal it from him when they visited the studio) and a synth (The Love Machine) that is playable through the touch of other people's skins (and sensitive to mood and feelings).

He has released hundreds of albums with symphonies, ballets and other synthesizer-based tunes. Radio Sweden's international broadcast has used his tune "Ut i vida världen" (Out in the wide world) as its main musical theme. He has composed music for films, radio and TV programs. As a short filmmaker he has won several major awards both in Sweden and abroad. When the United Nations had their 50th anniversary, Ralph's UN symphony "The Symphony of Joy" was the music played for the ceremony. Ralph Lundsten has declared castle Frankenburg as an embassy for the Andromeda galaxy, stating that there is no rule that a private citizen cannot represent a galaxy in the same way as a country.

Ralph Lundsten has in later years acted to make his home and studio into a public museum as a gift to the Swedish people. In 2003, the Swedish state stated that they could not economically afford it, but in 2005, it was publicly announced that the community of Nacka was interested in a cooperation with Lundsten to create what is now called Ralph Lundsten's Universe as a main attraction in the area. The plan is to complete the attraction with a building in the shape of a spaceship beside the castle Frankenburg and Andromeda studio. It will be a place to look at space, visit a cafe and restaurant, see movies and to compose music with computers. Quite close to the aesthetics of Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari, Arne Nordheim, Jacques Lejeune, Christian Clozier, Andre Almuro, Bernard Parmegiani and Paul Panhuysen, Ellen Fullman.

Leo Nilson (1939) got a wire recorder from his father at the age of just 10, and began his recording activities thus, in fact making makeshift collage compositions. There is a seamless development, after that, in Nilson’s activities, from the first etudes into his mature creativity later on, when he performed large-scale electronic works at festivals. There is, however, not as much recorded material out, as you’d expect from such an innovative and active artist as Leo Nilson. Ralph Lundsten has issued a triple CD with his earlier electronic works from the 1960s and 1970s, and since he cooperated with Leo Nilson in the early days – even sharing his first Andromeda Studio with Leo – there are a few of Leo Nilson’s works in that box as well. A copatriot of Ake Hodell and Akos Rozmann, Leif Elggren, Sten Hanson and Ake Parmerud.

Condition: Vinyl lies in very good++ condition, side a: is near mint, while side b: has 2 tiny marks, upon reproduction it plays vg++ with minor crackle. While cover lies in excellent- condition with a corner damage on upper right corner and some lamination problems on the right side, while the rest of it is perfect (damage is very small compared to the visual impression it makes on the photo - reflects more than it does in reality). The top is unglued, but can be easily be glued again together.

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