S.Y.P.H. - 4 LP Rerelease in Spring 2025

The 4th LP, which should basically have been the second. 

It is one of my personal favourites in the band's history. The time we spent as a band at CAN Studio Weilerswist, the legendary Innerspace Studio, catapulted me personally into a whole new and very inspiring world of sound. Basically, the production was a groundbreaking time that changed everything I (we) have been able to do with music so far. Holger Czukay created something new from the scraps of sound we produced that we couldn't even grasp at first. He really hammered it into us that music needs magic and if it's not there, then what we've made is no good. Captured by the mystical atmosphere in this sacred temple, we then created these worlds of sound. And Holger then pulled them out of the morass of sound monsters. It was difficult for us to accept at first that we, as proven rebels and superpunks, had made this and should release it. There were fierce discussions (as always in studio situations with S.Y.P.H.) How a majority in favour of a new date came about is basically a mystery to me, because I thought the recordings were fabulous and absolutely great. One of the many inconsistencies in SYPH's illustrious band history. It always says that this record was produced by Holger Czukay and Harry Rag. I see that completely differently, because basically we all did it together. After the band broke up, Peter, as so often, went it alone without asking anyone. (A behaviour that he has not abandoned to this day, as he felt he was the band leader) In this case I am very grateful to him for this, even though this very disc was to become a major bone of contention and ultimately ended in an unpleasant legal dispute. The music is unscathed by this, a piece of Ambient primeval rock, for me the cradle of my love for Ambient music, so to speak. A little sentence that Holger said during the recordings and that he mixed into the mix shows Peter's greatness in not always taking himself so seriously: Holger said: ‘The more you sing, Peter, the more you break. Peter didn't intervene, I just thought that was great. We were punks who suddenly found ourselves in a different world. Finding yourself between Kraut, punk and experimental Stockhausen music can be confusing.... As so often in the history of SYPH