ARSCH, by ARSCH

ARSCH

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The Inexpressible Sound Archive These free spirits jammin' is music in it's purest form.

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Memento Mori Macht eure Ärsche auf und die Ohren zu! Favorite track: Stoner's Curve.

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Professionally dubbed type-I cassette tapes (C-44). They're all hand-numbered by Empty Space. The tracks on the cassette edition are arranged and mixed differently than on the digital edition.

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1.	Desertrock 01:28	buy track
2.	Isch das Hasch? 00:15	buy track
3.	Turquoise carrots & Dubudab 03:45	buy track
4.	Tears of not giving a shit 03:54	buy track
5.	Mumbledome 01:29	buy track
6.	Stoner's Curve 02:26	buy track
7.	CAN I Phase (Part 1) 02:08	buy track
8.	Instant Acid 00:31	buy track
9.	Fighting Dragons on a Bach 01:46	buy track
10.	Superdruff 05:31	buy track
11.	Space Dawn Dust & CAN I Phase (Part 3b) 02:08	buy track
12.	Stoner 01:38	buy track
13.	No salida 02:02	buy track
14.	El Chimba 01:07	buy track
15.	Gimme more of some 01:43	buy track
16.	CAN I Phase (Part 2d) 00:48	buy track
17.	Bauheim 02:49	buy track
18.	Psychedelic Meltdown 09:57	buy track

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The story of ARSCH’s debut album is as obscure as it is remarkable: We first met ARSCH at a small alternative festival in the Swiss Jura Mountains where they held a four-hour-long concert that stood out for its psychedelic minimalism, crazy improvisations and its raw analog sound. After getting in touch with the band after the concert, we learned that ARSCH is an anarcho-syndicalist commune running a farm in a Swiss mountain village called Bitsch. They also told us that they maintain a recording studio straight out of the 70s in an old barn there.

Over the years, this bunch of (non-)musicians produced loads of recordings which were kept on reel-to-reel tapes in this very barn. Unfortunately the barn burned down in 2019 because one of the band members fell asleep with a burning joint in his mouth. Luckily no one got hurt, though most of the vintage instruments and a big part of the sound archive did not survive the flames.

This tragedy motivated us at Empty Space to help ARSCH with the processing of those horrible events by collecting and publishing the last remaining sound pieces. Because of this, ARSCHs equally named album can be seen as a cultural witness, expressing the works of a very unique community and thereby conserving them for future generations.

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released December 1, 2020

All tracks are written and produced by ARSCH
Artwork by Ines Emertasol
Mastered by Empty Space

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ARSCH Bitsch, Switzerland

ARSCH (Against-Racism-Sexism-Cannaphobia-Homophobia) isn’t a band in the usual sense of the word – it’s rather a commune which lives a self-sufficient life in a Swiss mountain village. The group consists of a bunch of loosely thrown together (non-)musicians who have recorded many improvisations over the last few years. Their sound is shaped by their vintage equipment and their chaotic arrangements ... more

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