Irmin Schmidt - Gormenghast on CD

Description

Irmin Schmidt is a founding member of the legendary band Can. His solo work is being made available here as individual releases outside of the now sold out box set ‘Electro Violet’. These CD albums cover his beautiful and memorising soundtrack and operatic work as well as his avant garde recordings as a solo artist and as a collaborator with Kumo and Bruno Spoerri. When all Can members decided to part and explore new sounds, Irmin teamed up with Swiss jazz and electronics musician Bruno Spoerri to make his first post-Can album: ‘Toy Planet’ (1981). Over the years, he continued his work for film and released his second solo album, ‘Musk At Dusk’ (1987), followed by ‘Impossible Holidays’ (1991). Both ‘Musk At Dusk’ and ‘Impossible Holidays’ feature lyrics by the novelist Duncan Fallowell, sung by Schmidt. The collaboration with Fallowell continued with his next project: the opera ‘Gormenghast’, based on Mervyn Peake's classic novel, for which Fallowell wrote the libretto.