New in our Moloko+ catalogue:
Kiev Stingl – X R I Nuit
Newly arrived from Moloko PLus is the Kiev Stingl CD X R I Nuit. Moloko’s CD was published as a companion to the EP of the same name that was released by Klangbad in 2022. On their website Klangbad announces this trove of Kiev Stingl recordings from 1982 as follows:
… Never-before-heard songs from Germany’s underground legend Kiev Stingl. Released on Klangbad, record label of Hans-Joachim Irmler, founding member of seminal Krautrock band Faust. Enfant terrible Kiev Stingl’s major label discography totals three records, on Philips, Metronome, and Teldec. More than any other German pop artist, Kiev Stingl embodies massive deviance. In 1982, he was arrested by the secret police of Madagascar; accused of assisting the CIA in a coup attempt, he was imprisoned in Antananarivo (Ambohibao) and narrowly escaped a death sentence. Upon release, he entered Teldec Studios in Hamburg to record new songs, accompanied only by Götz Humpf (City Preachers). Due to increasingly eccentric behaviour and a lack of commercial viability, producer Achim Reichel (The Rattles, A.R. & Machines) decided against releasing the recordings. The termination of the sessions marked the end of one of underground music’s most promising careers…