Some Deaths Take Forever, by Bernard Szajner

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Some Deaths Take Forever

by Bernard Szajner

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Remastered from the master tapes.
Second lp with 5 unreleased extra tracks from ‘Some Deaths’ recording sessions.
Extra insert with extended liner notes by producer Karel Beer and John Olson (Wolf Eyes).
First reissue on vinyl since its original 1980 release.

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1.	Welcome To Death Row 06:11 video	buy track
2.	Ritual 04:46	buy track
3.	Execute 06:35	buy track
4.	Ressurector 07:10	buy track
5.	Terms Of Reality (Radio Phase) 01:08	buy track
6.	The Memory 04:22	buy track
7.	New Body Form (Radio Phase) 00:40	buy track
8.	Suspended Animation 04:01	buy track
9.	The Difference Is Not All That Great (Radio Phase) 00:39	buy track
10.	A Kind Of Freedom 03:23	buy track
11.	A Single Broken Wing 07:27	buy track
12.	And Executed 04:38	buy track
13.	Thol Onsia 05:22	buy track
14.	Warden Plays 04:46	buy track
15.	Er Aera 10:03	buy track

about

Recording an album about the feelings of two prisoners waiting on death row. As a statement against capital punishment.
It was (and even still is nowadays) a delicate and ambitious plan.
Bernard Szajner did it, in 1980, after watching an Amnesty International documentary.

And stakes were high: at that point in his life Szajner has spent the majority of the 70’s doing light and visuals for bands as Magma, Gong, Pink Floyd and The Who. In the meantime he created his own instrument, the ‘Syringe’, aka the first laser harp, and made his debut as a musician under the Z moniker with ‘Visions of Dune’.

When listening to ‘Some Deaths Take Forever’ in 2020 it’s hard to believe it was recorded already four decades ago: the melancholic piano theme and the metallic synth riffs of opener ‘Welcome to Death Row’ set the tone for a mind blowing audio journey which at one moment echoes the vibe of early 80’s gloom funk and derailed krautrock drenching into pulsating proto Detroit techno and on the other hand sounds like the blueprint for a futuristic electronic
music scene in the years to come.

The influence and the impact of ‘Some Deaths Take Forever’ is also still vibrating: Carl Craig mentioned it as his all time favorite album in Future Mag, the signature sound of Oneohtrix Point Never feels almost like a not so hidden tribute and the killer sci fi electronics of tracks ‘Ressurector’ or ‘A Kind Of Freedom’ resonates through the discography of Air and Daft Punk, to name a few.

Excerpt liner notes John 'Inzane' Olson:

Szajner's album here sounds different with each listen, a new unnoticed corner blaring aloud to be (re)discovered within any of the ten tracks: strongest mark of a classic if there was any.
So buckle in, spray yourself with this electric insecticide and let your shadowy sentence ring out with a "loud clanging noise that turned out be an electronic gavel."

Excerpt liner notes Karel Beer (producer):

Now 40 years later when listening to “Some Deaths…” in spite of the uncompromising subject matter and knowing that the written word is his most influential source of inspiration I am struck by the unexpected references that can be heard on the tracks. There’s Shaft, Jeff Beck, Morricone, Weather Report and even Timmy Thomas. A truly eclectic bunch that somehow makes sense of an era. It’s almost as if Szajner is applying these accidental or
intentional influences just as an artist would use inks, oils or found forms to a canvas.

credits

released January 21, 2021

Bernard Szajner: modular synth, vocoder, sequencing, percussion
Pierre Chérèze: guitar
Marc Geoffroy: Fender Rhodes, piano, polymoog
Klaus Blasquiz: voice
Bernard Paganotti: bass on 'Welcome to Death Row' and 'Ritual'
Michael Quartermain: singing voice on 'Ressurector'
Alain Agius: saxophone
Michael Rabinowitz: basson

Remastered from the original masters by Gert Van Hoof at Cochlea Mastering

Vinyl cut by D&M Berlin

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