A Paraguayan musician of German origin, Joern Wenger is a true pioneer of homemade DIY recordings since the late 60s in South America.<\/p>\n
After playing with teen garage beat band Rabbits, Joern formed JODI<\/strong> along with his brother Dirk. Building the state-of-the-art \u201cJodi Experimental Studio\u201d in the basement of his parent\u2019s house, Joern (a Stockhausen student) recorded many hours of music and self-released in 1971 a very rare LP called \u201cPops de Vanguardia\u201d, (reissued by Guerssen \/ Out-Sider in 2016) and now considered the first DIY lo-fi garage \/ psychedelic album from South America.<\/p>\n During the early 70s, Joern and Dirk managed to sign a contract with EMI-Argentina, and a series of commercials albums and singles (with a small change in the name, IODI) were released. They obtained big success and became professional musicians but this didn\u2019t prevent Joern from continuing to experiment at his home studio.<\/p>\n \u201cAlarm In The Jungle: The Synthetic Side Of Jodi<\/strong>\u201d features previously unreleased material, selected by Joern with help from JODI<\/strong> fan and researcher Eduardo Pietruczyk just after Joern recently found a treasure trove of vintage reel-to-reel tapes. But some of those tapes were heavily damaged and had to be dried up and carefully digitized. So, Joern came with an interesting concept: he recreated and recorded again with surgeon-like precision some parts of the songs included here.<\/span><\/p>\n There are instrumental flirtations in bossa, Afro-Brazilian, library-music and boogie \/ funk styles.<\/p>\n Comets Coming Comets Coming A Paraguayan musician of German origin, Joern Wenger is a true pioneer of homemade DIY recordings since the late 60s in South America.<\/p>\n \u201cAlarm In The Jungle: The Synthetic Side Of Jodi<\/strong>\u201d features previously unreleased material, selected by Joern with help from JODI<\/strong> fan and researcher Eduardo Pietruczyk just after Joern recently found a treasure trove of vintage reel-to-reel tapes. But some of those tapes were heavily damaged and had to be dried up and carefully digitized. So, Joern came with an interesting concept: he recreated and recorded again with surgeon-like precision some parts of the songs included here. <\/span><\/p>\n
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