Ensemble Pittoresque ‎– Frequenz [LP] (1984)

1977, these were the heydays of punk, glam rock and the maximum comfort of Western living. The Sex Pistols, Kraftwerk, Can, Faust, Fripp & Eno, Pere Ubu and a wide variety of mainstream artists pounded the world with their personal pinnacles of artistic brilliance. These were the sale-days of endless series of poly and monophonic synthesizers, arpeggiators, sequencers, drum boxes, digi modifiers, metal distortions, big muffs, Nikkei exchange rates and inscrutable trade-in values. In the heart of The Hague, at a squatted anarchistic stronghold called “Bamboulee” Paulus Wieland and Richard Neumöller hooked up with whiz technician Ton Willekes. After they had moved to the dunes of Wassenaar, these "music crazed, angry young men", on the 12th of august 1978, founded a company called Ensemble Pittoresque. [SOURCE: ENSEMBLE PITTORESQUE.NET] 

Label: Vip Records ‎– 200.006 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: Netherlands 

Released: Apr 1984 

Genre: Electronic 

Style: Electro, Experimental 

Tracklist:

A1 Urban Catastrophy 4:25 

A2 Sound It Is 2:44 

A3 Frequenz 2:29 

A4 My Baby Is A Waitress 2:51 

A5 Sleepwalking 4:17 

A6 Train Grande Vitesse 3:30 

B1 The Mouthshut 4:44 

B2 Program 3:19 

B3 Presidennekie 3:33 

B4 Several Sunsets 3:50 

B5 Shift 17 2:44 

Credits: 

Bass, Cymbal [Crashcymbal] – Ed Van Hoven 

Composed By – Ensemble Pittoresque (tracks: A1 to A5, B1 to B5) 

Cover, Design – Peter Van Wijland Tieman 

Drum Programming, Guitar, Voice, Other [Soundtracks] – Richard Neumöller 

Engineer, Producer – Ton Willekes 

Guitar, Synthesizer – Paulus Wieland 

Liner Notes – Boyd Noorda 

Synthesizer, Trumpet – Le Biquo 

Synthesizer, Voice – Marion Prinz 

Notes:

A6 composed, performed and recorded at The Institute Of Sonologie, Utrecht. Recorded direct on mastertape at Sociamedia, The Hague, during febr./march '84. Mastertape manipulations at the Willekes homestudio 

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