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With the canonization of krautrock as a musical genre, its history as a social movement has faded into the background and the focus moved away from the wider net of players, local scenes and venues involved in it. The music now described by the term originally evolved in scattered groups and localities throughout West Germany where musicians from rock, jazz and contemporary classical backgrounds got together to create a new free music that could not be pinpointed to any existing genre. One such place was the short-lived Zodiak Free Arts Lab in West Berlin, operated in the late 1960s by Conrad Schnitzler and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, hosting performances by Kluster (later renamed Cluster), Tangerine Dream and the like in their embryonic stages when they actually played free music. Another group formed around the Zodiak was MND (Moderne Nordeuropäische Dorfmusik, Modern North European Village Music). Retrospectively, MND often are described as free jazz, probably due to the involvement of jazz players Sven-Åke Johansson and Norbert Eisbrenner, when in fact their music was as genre-free as it could be, with Johansson using his drums to create "dynamic vibrations" akin to an echo device and Eisbrenner developing a unique table-top guitar technique, maybe even before anybody else did. MND originally released one LP in 1969, but thanks to Johansson's vast archive of recordings, multiple posthumous albums appeared in the 2000s, most recently Freedom Suite in 2020 on Edition Telemark. Presented on this double LP are more recordings from the early 1970s, most of them made at the Fabrik ("factory") in Hamburg, a similar-minded cultural and community center founded in 1971. Due to the differing line-ups, these recordings do not bear the MND name but were given the title Fabrikmusik (factory music). The centerpiece spread across sides A and B features Johansson and Eisbrenner alongside sometime collaborator Peter Dyck on cello, who are joined by Hamburg-based trumpet player Helmuth Neumann. Side C is a duo performance by MND players Johansson and Werner Götz in the Fabrik, whereas side D closes the album with a Dyck/Johansson recording from the Mariental artist commune in Lower Saxony whose history has been covered on the Freedom Suite album. Double LP in single sleeve with two printed inner sleeves reproducing photographs by Sven-Åke Johansson.
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