Hans Reichel

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Subtitled “some more guitar solos,” Bonobo Beach was German guitarist and instrument inventor Hans Reichel’s fourth and final record of solo guitar works.

After this record, Reichel would turn much of his attention to the bowed wooden-tongued instrument he created called the daxophone. Reichel recorded the six tracks at his home in Wuppertal in April, 1981, and in the process made what might be his masterpiece.

These are not just some more guitar solos. Concentrating largely on acoustic guitar with no frets as well as his electric pick-behind-the-bridge guitar, he transforms tones into crystalline formations – patience with resonances, attention to silence, formation of symmetries around a common sonic point, jetting notes that arc and spread and then hover.

PERSONNEL:

• Hans Reichel:
• Fretless Spanish guitar on piece 1
• 6-string guitar with extra frets on the covering board on piece 4
• 12-string guitar with extra frets on the covering board on pieces 2 and 5
• electric pick-behind-the-bridge-guitar on pieces 3 and 6 everything taped as played.

Recorded April 1981 in Wupperlal

TRACKS:

• 01. Southern Monoluge (6:00 minutes)
• 02. Bonobo Beach II (4:30 minutes)
• 03. Could Be Nice (9:20 minutes)
• 04. Two Small Pieces Announced by Cigar-box
• a) (3:00 minutes)
• b) (3:45 minutes)
• 05. Bonobo Beach I (7:45 minutes)
• 06. Could Be Nice Too (5:30 minutes)