Dominik Steiger – Ad Hoc Music 1980-84 [LP]

"Dominik Steiger (1940-2014). Universty drop out. Joins the french foreign legion 1959 but was dismissed a year later for psychiatric reasons. 1961 first poems and beginning of a bohemian life. 1961-64 vagabondage through europe and asia. Published several books of poetry and prose since 1961. First drawings published 1972 by Günther Brus in his periodical ‘Schastrommel’. Exhibitions of graphic works since 1975 in galleries throughout Europe. Ad hoc musician. First LP of songs ‘Wiener Lieder und Gemischte Waisen’ published 1979 in Dieter Roth’s Verlag. In 2004 he received the honorary literature prize of the Republic of Austria and in 2008 the fine arts prize of the City of Vienna. He lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

This LP is a collection of 29 pieces recorded 1980-84. Outsider art home-recordings using voice, acoustic guitar, accordion and bontempi organ.

320g picture sleeve and 280g printed inner-sleeve with linernotes and artist biography in english and german."

Tochnit Aleph, 2013