As said last week, the package of Cosmic Winnetou that dropped on the doormat at HQ contained three cassettes, of which Modelbau and Celer were reviewed last week. The third cassette, "Ausflüge II", was from label owner Günter Schlienz and the reason why it was skipped last week was simply that it would be more fitting to combine its review with another release in the same series ", Ausflüge I" which came in this last week.
So, I first did to stroll around on the interwebz and see if there was information on Günter which could tell me a bit more about his background and previous releases. Because yes, never had I ever heard of him before. This is weird because it is the kind of ambient that might have come up somehow. I mean, modular, homemade electronics / synth-DIY, manipulated field recordings, guitar ambience, improvisation... But let's stick to what is known about the experimental music scene, and that is that it's all way larger than each of us individually thinks it is.
"Ausflüge II" is released on his own Cosmic Winnetou, a bit shorter. The artwork is in sync with the Cosima Pitz release, so a true sequel or 'twin'-release, and so yes, the track titles are again very descriptive. "Gewitternacht" and "Marsfrühstück II" are longer tracks that are recorded a bit more open/clear than the ones on the first cassette. The compositions seem more directed into an ambient piece with melody and even some rhythm and less on describing the feeling/emotions or the surrounding while wandering. Finally, "Tankstelle" is a 3-minute piece that seems to be made with the same setup and patch as the first tracks. The coherency between tracks is stronger in "Ausflüge II" because it sounds like the same basics for sound have been re-used, making part II stronger as a release. But honestly, it could do without several rhythmic sounds because the composition has enough drive without those. Nice work for fans of improvisational modular sounds. And I even think the improvised parts may be fitting for people who like jazz and ambient.
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