ORFEON GAGARIN - NEUMOTORAX S.XX

Format : CD-R
Edition : 147 copies
Release date : 05 August 2007
Cat# : LH04


Status : SOLD OUT


Track list:

1 Neumotorax I [mp3]
2 Neumotorax II [mp3]
3 Neumotorax IV [mp3]
4 Neumotorax V [mp3]


Neumatorax S.XX was recorded in September 1988 by Migueal A.Ruiz and it was issued as a yellow cassette on his own label Toracic Tapes.

The re-issue Neumotorax S.XX was originally intended as a limited edition of 137 on yellow discs.
Due to a pressing plant mistake 90 of the 137 yellow discs were destroyed and had to be re-printed.
When we asked the pressing plant to have the cds re-printed they told us that they had run out of yellow cd-r.
It had taken already ages to get to the agreement to have the discs re-done so instead of waiting for them to receive new yellow cd-r we decided to go ahead with the printing on a different color discs: red.
When we received the red cd-r there were 10 more copies of what we expected : 100 instead of 90.
That brings us to the new total of 147 copies.

The pressing is now divided this way:
47 on yellow Cd-r
100 on red Cd-r 






Review by Maurizio Bianchi

"Austere cosmic electronics from Spain: Orfeon Gagarin leads our minds in a rigorous journey through dynamic an abstract mosaics. It's a syntho-aural odissey dense of surrealistic pathos. A thicket of neurotic sounds in gradual progression. Yes, "Neumotorax S.XX" represents the ruinous tiredness of our slippery and rarefied times."




From Rockerilla issue 326 October / November 2007

Orfeon Gagarin - Neumotorax S.XX

Vote 7/10

Recupero a sorpresa dall'archivio storico di Orfeon Gagarin (al secolo Miguel A. Ruiz) voluta dai promoter della Menstrual cha hanno riversato le tracce originali in cassetta in questa nuova edizione a tiratura limitata jevel-CD. Concrete Music ? Avantgarde ? Dodecafonia ? Cubismo elettroacustico ? Concatenazioni urticanti di musica e rumore ? Tutte e nessuna di queste definizioni si prestano rendere senso compiuto all'arte di Orfeon Gagarin tanta e' la complessita' degli allestimenti sonori pensati per "Neumotorax S.XX". Scosse neuronali, questo si', flash sinaptici e drones eruttivi che scavalcano le zone piu' buie e recondite della psiche, terapie del dolore che si fanno catarsi laddove e' possibile, misteri ed incognite di una dimensione che non e' solo quella sonora ma metafisica e surreale.

Aldo Chimenti