HARTMUT GEERKEN - orpheus LP Guitar Picking “Lupine” twirls baroque motifs into

“Lupine” twirls baroque motifs into elastic rounds

On "Come Morning

lives up to its boastful title

As well as all 3 tracks from this ultra rare record

HARTMUT GEERKEN - orpheus LP Guitar Picking “Lupine” twirls baroque motifs intoFantastic sound poetry piece by Hartmut Geerken restringing the Sun Harp, the Ukranian bandura that Sun Ra gave him in 1971 when he visited Egypt for the first time. The acoustics of his manual workings emerge without any esthetic intention: the bandura's voluminous resonating body forms the reverb of the room. Each manual action and each contact of the tuning key with the wooden body is 'reverbed'. The instrument creates its audio space. A mythic