Zweistein – Trip/Flip Out/Meditation – 3LP+7″

Zweistein was the brainchild of Suzanne Doucet, who was joined by her sister Diane during the recording process, with added studio effects by Peter Kramper. Doucet spent the first part of 60’s as a pop star – gathering number of hits, and as a TV presenter. Filled with a radical spirit, a love of art and technology, and fueled by a heavy intake of psychedelic drugs, her successes proved unfulfilling by the end of the decade. Zweistein was born.

The album, which stretches over three LPs, each with its own theme – “Trip, Flip Out, and Meditation”, is a writhing radical construction in sound – far closer to the revolutionary gestures of synthesis, electronic and electroacoustic practice emerging during that era, than what is commonly associated with Krautrock or Kosmische. Almost completely abstract, with passages of fleeting melody and drone – enveloping landscapes realized through sound, “Trip, Flip Out, and Meditation” is pure art, creativity, and experimentation, filtered through the lens of LSD – the heights of the era and all the wonders it brought, with an unmistakable, overt attack on the pop sensibility of its day. An artist diving underground, rearing their head into the mainstream with a thrust of what was found.

An astonishing edition – double gatefold, silver engraved gimmick sleeve, 3LP plus a bonus 7″ single w/PS and a colour insert. Limited to 1000 copies.

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