GAS - November 89 GAS

November 89 comprises a selection of very early GAS tracks, some of which date back to the late 1980s. They were first released in 2008 as a CD insert in the art book Wolfgang Voigt GAS, published by Raster-Noton.

Like the photographs in the book, these pieces are early precursors that would evolve over the following years into the style-defining audiovisual Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) of the albums Zauberberg and Königsforst, combining hypnotic forest imagery with an abstract, psychedelic wash of sound created by alphorn and bass drum.

The album is now available on vinyl for the first time, completing the existing GAS vinyl series by adding the "first" album, which had previously been missing.

The cover artwork makes direct reference to the album Oktember, released in 1999. Its highly hypnotic, dense forest motif formed the basis for one of the first Oktember Waldloops (forest-loops) works, which have since appeared in galleries and art venues around the world.