I just got this email from Boomkat Records with regards to this very special limited release. I haven’t listened to any of the tunes yet but thought I’d post it simply becauce it sounds & looks awesome!
If you’re curious or interested in this limited ting click on the Boomkat link to listen to some of it and ready the lowdown below the pictures of the release…
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/419431-j-rgen-m-ller-science-of-the-sea
Limited to 500 for the world - "initial copies come on transparent orange vinyl, Cut at D&M ‘Science Of The Sea’ is a total find, presenting a precious vinyl reissue of Jürgen Müller’s practically unheard 1982 ode to oceanography and the magic of synthesizer music. As his story goes, in 1979, Jürgen, a self-taught amateur musician studying oceanic science at the University of Kiel, travelled with a film crew to document a mission testing sea-water toxicity a few kilometres offshore in the North Sea. As ever, necessity was the mother of invention, and the experience proved so memorable that he was impelled to create a soundtrack to the footage and his own recollections using some electronic equipment borrowed from friends and a local school. Armed with nothing but a faint memory of piano lessons as a child and - perhaps to be expected for a German student in 1979 - some awareness of (undisclosed) avant-garde electronic composers from the early '70s, Jürgen set about creating this lush suite of twelve marine-themed vignettes, plainly channeling his thoughts, moods and emotions into what could be quite easily called a prototypical, deliciously frothy form of “New Age” music. It simultaneously triggered ambitions of becoming a film composer and lead to the creation of his publishing company - Neue Wissenschaft. He wrote the album in his spare time off from studying between 1981-82, finally releasing an edition of 100 copies which largely ended up in the hands of friends and family, with only a few reaching prospective clients and relegating it to the sea of privately pressed synth music. The titles such as ‘Traumfolge Einer Qualle (Dream Sequence for a Jellyfish)’, ‘Unter Weiten Welden (Vast Worlds Beneath)’ and ‘Einsame Reise (Lonely Voyage)’ already imbue a sense of wonder before you even hear any of the material. The music itself is equally charming, recalling the graceful figures of Roedelius but transplanted from the rolling countryside to a glinting North Sea which has provided inspiration for so many others, in so many ways. The original tapes have been remastered by Brad Rose and will at long last find a home in the wider world thanks to this beautiful new pressing."