To celebrate the founding of the Tonbandjagd association, we held our first public listening session of the tape release “Chlöisu Friedli, Studio Sessions” at Lichtspiel.
This master reel 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. The tape can be ordered from Plasma Records and Tapes, a fully analogue copy of the original tapes, limited to 75 copies.
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 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.
Album: Chlöisu Friedli - Studio Sessions
Studio Sessions - Herbst 1980 bis April 1981
Country: Switzerland
Release 13.9.2024
Genre: Mundart Blues
Playing time: 31 min
Specifications: half track ¼", stereo, RTM SM 911, 510 nWb/m, CCIR or NAB Eq. on request)
Special feature: 38 cm/s (19 cm/s on request), limited to 75 copies
Technical details:
This release is limited to 75 copies, numbered and individually manufactured. AAA fully analogue transfer. A production master with the pieces was first compiled from the original studio recording. The analog copies are created individually from this production master without any editing.
Machines used for the analogue copy:
Studer C37 and Telefunken M15a. All machines completely overhauled and calibrated by professional technicians. 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.
The Package: One reel tape, 1/4" half track, stereo, 38 cm/s, CCIR, 510 nWb/m, RTM SM911
The audio reel tape with recordings of Chlöisu Friedli's studio sessions 1980-1981 as the next project. The release is being made in collaboration with the Fata Morgana label and the Tonbandjagd Schweiz association.
Plasma Records & Tapes - Under the label Plasma Records & Tapes, analogue direct copies of original tapes from this collection are published in small editions. The master tape copy is in the top sonic class, and the intimate atmosphere of the recording and is characterized by excellent melody lines.
No other analogue medium was as close to musicians as the tape. Records and music cassettes were consumer media, but the tape machines were in the studios, the music was mixed on them - and the artists listened to the music directly from the tape.
Plasma Records & Tapes - Switzerland
