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Sven-Åke Johansson
Advent music in Kippenberger’s office, 1978/2014
3 photographs (archival fine art print on Hahnemühle PhotoBaryta FB 350g), 40 x 27.8 cm, LP 10″ (33rpm)
with original recordings from 1978, 5 tracks, Sven-Åke Johansson singing and accordion, facsimile of the invitation card
Edition: 24 (7 EA), signed, numbered
Provinz is pleased to present you with “Advent Music in Kippenberger’s Office”, a new, extensive edition by Sven-Åke Johansson. Johansson, who is known as a composer and musician, poet and visual artist, has been one of the protagonists of the West Berlin music and art scene since the early 1970s. In December 1978, Sven-Åke Johansson gladly accepted Martin Kippenberger’s invitation to perform his “Advent Music” in Kippenberger’s office. The recording is now being released by Provinz under the same title as a 10″ LP album in an edition of 24, together with three large-format photos showing the artist and his audience, including Kippenberger (Photographer: Achim Schächtele).
The album includes songs performed by Johansson in freestyle on the accordion. Dramatic, cheerful and tango-like passages alternate and underline his timelessly current texts, which tell of poker players, distant countries, migratory birds or the yellow German moon and, in the pointedness of their delivery, can on the one hand evoke memories of Georg Kreisler or on the other hand serve as a role model for Helge Schneider.
