The Word – Collected Works (Edition Hawara) 12″

Product Description

Seriously rare 80’s Disco/Jazz/Electronic must have. The second release from Edition Hawara after the monstrous and sublime ZENIT album which sold out in weeks. The WORD also features LINDA SHARROCK on vocals with shared musicians. This is an 80’s Disco/Electronic must have, DO NOT MISS IT!

About The Word Collected Works
The Word is one of the better-kept secrets of 1980s Austrian disco music. Yet once you put the needle on this record, you notice that it sounds oddly familiar. The awe-inspiring signature piece “Lobster” has the same analogue, slow-moving aesthetic as Zenit’s timeless “Waiting” that was featured on Edition Hawara’s first release. The same goes for the three other wonderfully unconventional, proto-electronic songs: “Easy”, “All my life” and the eponymous “the word”. And there are even more commonalities with Zenit’s LP: The vocals are Linda Sharrock’s, who here teamed up with Karl “Charly” Ratzer and Peter Ponger, the twin brother of legendary Falco producer Robert Ponger. The result of this collaboration is, well, also quite legendary. How this kind of sound emerged in Vienna in 1984 is still a bit of a mystery, but clearly all the stars were aligned when Sharrock, Ratzer and Ponger were jamming in the studio. We at Edition Hawara are very proud to share this secret with you. Just as there are very few lobsters in landlocked Vienna, there are very few records like this out there.

The artists involved are:

Linda Sharrock – vocals
Peter Ponger – synths, piano
Charly Ratzer – guitar

The tracklist:

A1 – Lobster
A2 – Easy
B1 – All My Life
B2 – The Word

Edition Hawara EHAW002