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Spinning Motion —
Confidence In The Future
Spinning Motion was a short living studio project by the two school friends Manfred Tappert and Achim Hirsch hailing from West Berlin. Their different musical backgrounds: jazz, beat and rock, provided a pretty unique soil for this adventure. Recorded 1980 at Berlin’s legendary Music Lab studio the result can be best described as a mellow mixture of Jazz and Folk with partly weird and tripped-out lyrics. Originally only 100 copies where pressed but even fewer where ever sold. Seemingly unrelated to the Berlin sound of the early 80s it reminds today of bands like Kings Of Convenience. Mastered from the original session tapes.
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- A o1 — Blue
Composed by Manfred Tappert - A o2 — Devotion To You
Composed by Manfred Tappert/Lyrics by Achim Hirsch - A o3 — Prisoner Of Life
Composed by Manfred Tappert/Lyrics by Manfred Tappert - A o4 — Confidence In The Future
Composed by Manfred Tappert/Lyrics by Achim Hirsch
- B o1 — Naze
Composed by Manfred Tappert/Lyrics by Achim Hirsch - B o2 — Answer My Questions
Composed by Manfred Tappert/Lyrics by Achim Hirsch - B o3 — Playground Of Burial-Funds
Composed by Manfred Tappert/Lyrics by Achim Hirsch - B o4 — Elegy
Composed by Manfred Tappert
Credits
- Manfred Tappert — Guitars, E-Piano, E-Bass, Vocals
Stefan Thimm — Drums, Percussion
Eddie Hayes — Flügelhorn (A1, A3)
Joe Kucera — Soprano Saxophone (B1), Lyricon (B3)
Achim Hirsch — Spoken Words (B1, B4)
Produced by Achim Hirsch - Recorded At Music-Lab, Berlin January 1980
Mixed and Recorded by: Harris Johns - Newly mixed and re-mastered from original multi-track tape by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering, Berlin.
Liner Notes —
What happened 1980 in a studio in Berlin can surely be described as ahead of the times
Spinning Motion is a prime example. This studio project, initiated by Achim Hirsch and Manfred Tappert, friends since their schooldays, gathers musicians with origins as diverse as their musical backgrounds, aiming to find common ground between Folk, Pop, Jazz and all of its diversified variations. They comprise, Stefan Thimm, a drummer hailing from Wuppertal, a founding member of Accept, later to become Germany’s most influential Heavy Metal band, saxophonist Joe Kucera, who was part of the Czech RnB/Blues rock band Framus 5 before he, shortly after the Prague Spring, fled via Vienna to West Berlin, and the Bostonian trumpet player Eddie Hayes, who comes from within the ranks of the puristic US Jazz scene, whose heroes are Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. It’s more of a decree of fate than mere coincidence, that precisely these five distinctive characters get together and, contrary to the media hype caused by the Noise/New Wave movement, decide to make music, which isn’t amenable to any whim of fashion.
A city like Berlin, especially with this perceived sense of optimism about the future, offers every creative artist, as well as the technical and well-versed musicians with a certain down-to-earthiness, enough leeway and opportunity to play live in numerous concert venues and bars. The range is so wide (from the Tarantel in Kreuzberg, to the Quasimodo, Flöz, the Quartier Latin and the Jazz Galerie, as well as the Eierschale in Dahlem), that some are able to live from these gigs and as session musicians. It’s exactly in this looseness of this scene that the highly gifted, multi-instrumentalist Manfred Tappert is at home. Since the early days of his youth he has devoted all his spare time to music, and at every creative chance he throws himself into it, and joins all sorts of projects (i.e. the Jazz fusion band Prisma) and jam session constellations (in the late 1970s more and more frequently with Eddie Hayes). As soon as his former classmate and childhood friend, Achim Hirsch, tells him about a recent self-discovery trip to Denmark, and floats the suggestion to work his new impressions and worldviews, collected in Scandinavia, into an album, Tappert is hooked. The last time the two of them played music together was in the late 1960s when, driven by the shared fascination for the legendary British Garage Rock band The Pretty Things, they formed the student combo “The Busstop 4”. Whilst since the early 1970s, Tappert has been turning more and more towards Jazz, Hirsch is still wallowing and reminiscing in the golden era of Beat music and Psychedelic Rock. So, after more than a decade, despite or maybe thanks to these different individual developments, the time seems to have come for the next mutual musical adventure which is given the significant name “Spinning Motion”.
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The original versions
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