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Release Date: 1979

Label: Schneeball

Includes 16 p. 12" booklet tacked inside the gatefold cover; printed dustbags.

Recordings from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Thanks to Hartmut Geerken, Roland Schaffner, Dieter Gassmann, Dr. Winterscheidt
Recorded Sept 1978 - May 1979
Remix and playback July 1979 by Sunrise-Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland.

On rear cover: "PRINTED by papyros, hartmut bremer, d-göttingen // 20. SCHNEEBALL / made in w-germany".

Tracks A1, B1 and B2 recorded after returning from the journey in August/September 1979 at Sunrise Studio Kirchberg.
Track A2 - with vocals from an unknown Circus Announcer (Unbekannter Zirkusansager) - recorded in November 1978 10 km west of Peshawar, Pakistan in the tent of Jan Bahader Circus.
Track A4, B3, B4, C1, D1 recorded March 1979 at Goethe-Institut Kabul, Afghanistan; Playbacks for Track B3, C1 July 1979 at Sunrise Studio.
Track D2 recorded at doon school Dehra Dun, Hymalaya, India.
Track A3, C2 recorded February 1979 in Bangalore (Heidler, Sylvester), track A3 playbacks July 1979 at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg (Conod).
D4 recorded January 1979 in the docks of Calcutta (Greenman).
Track D3 is a "field recording" from December 1978; "Maharaj" taking place on the occasion of a 'Full Moon Festival for the natives'; "Variationen..." on the occasion of the birth of a baby.

Mistake on label of Side A: The titles A4 and B4 are switched.

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