{"product_id":"hartmut-geerken-requiem-for-the-snake-of-maidan-2lp","title":"HARTMUT GEERKEN - Requiem for the Snake of Maidan 2LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"small\"\u003eEdition of 500 copies, double LP with inserts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etowards the end of the 1970s, a film about me and my work was made in kabul for the south german tv program. the director was arpad bondy. in order to find a venue for my music that is typical for afghanistan, it was agreed that my “percussion environment”, a tubular cube of 2x2x2 meters including the associated instruments, would be transported on a barren, stony ridge in the hindukush mountains. the people called the place “maidan”, which means nothing but “place”. while a couple of men dragged the frame pipes and the instruments up the hill, I decided to carry my large wuhan gong (100 cm diameter) up the mountain, in a kind of ritual. michael ranta sent me this gong from wuhan\/china to kabul. – with slow and careful steps, carrying the heavy gong like an umbrella on my head, I walked over the difficult rocky terrain without a path up. suddenly a snake about two meters long came out of the rocks towards me and hissed aggressively at me. I could only take the gong off my head and put it like a shield in front of my legs. as I later discovered, it was a very venomous snake! since I couldn’t go on or back without her attacking me, I had to bring myself to kill the beautiful animal. I managed to smash her skull with a rock that I threw at her while standing behind my gong. finally I hung the lifeless body around my neck, put the gong back on my head and continued my way up, with a pounding heart. when the percussion environment was set up, I hung the dead snake between my instruments and spontaneously decided to name my solo performance “requiem for the snake of maidan”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holidays records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52900078485771,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/3899\/7932\/files\/HOL138_1500-1024x1024_jpg.webp?v=1771068464","url":"https:\/\/bisaufsmesser.com\/products\/hartmut-geerken-requiem-for-the-snake-of-maidan-2lp","provider":"Bis Aufs Messer Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}