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1.	Purpur-Scharlachrot 15:50
2.	Der Druck und die Temperatur der Kleidung ( Dan Warburton) 10:12	info
3.	Orion's Dog (Andrew Deutsch) 06:39
4.	In Paralell Motion (Chris Halliwell) 10:16	info
5.	Schwadron (Strotter Inst) 06:36	info
6.	Kneel (Or Hover) - (Stephen Vitiello) 10:12
7.	07 I.K.K.-Purpur-Transformation Schwarz (Wehowsky_Frisch_Rainey) 09:29	info

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The "I.K.K." aka Ralf Wehowsky -project started in 1794, when Christoph Schmid wrote the lyrics for Ihr Kinderlein Kommet, using a melody by contemporary composer Johann Abraham Peter Schulz. It was performed soon after in Thanhausen an der Mindel for the first time.

Ralf Wehowsky has asked some of his “ex-, non-, anti- and reborn christian” friends to rework the material of a piece he recorded in 2003 and which features passages and archetypal German christmas traditional songs.

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The "I.K.K."-project started in 1794, when Christoph Schmid wrote the lyrics for Ihr Kinderlein Kommet, using a melody by contemporary composer Johann Abraham Peter Schulz. It was performed soon after in Thanhausen an der Mindel for the first time.

In 2001, a few weeks before Xmas, I recorded my daughter Sonja (aged 5 then) singing some of her favourite Xmas tunes. Wonderful recordings. Her singing is full of emotional power and she even hits the right notes from time to time. The interesting moments are when her voice is moving around those notes. Instead of burying those recordings in the archive I came back to them soon after, because Jos Moers (the owner of the label Meeuw Muzak) was asking me to contribute to a series of Xmas 7"s he does once every year. So I recorded one for him early in 2002 for 2003’s yearly event: merry merry (mm 027). Side one has Sonja's singing untouched ("Stille Nacht", engl. silent night), well at least unedited, live. She got touched - rather hit - by Sören, my son, who was running around and trying to stop her (I do not know if this was a matter of taste or just a game). Side 2 has a funny piece composed from a transformed "Ihr Kinderlein Kommet". When the 7" was done I had the impression that the transformed sounds had a quality of their own, so I used them for further transformations, as well as to compose a new piece of about 15 minutes: "I.K.K. – Purpur – Scharlachrot".

Following my inclination for collaborative works I thought that this material could be of interest, not only for me, but also for a few other ex-, non-, anti- and reborn christians to work with. So I prepared a CD-R with the existing versions and some basic material from the piece. The first collaborator who got pestered with this CD-R was Bhob Rainey early in 2003. As our collaborative work expanded in other directions, his contribution to the "I.K.K." arrived late in May 2005 - and the piece containing his material - "I.K.K. — Purpur — Transformation Schwarz" - gloriously finishes this release.

As critic Tobias Fisher put it "The formula, later applied, to other genres treating the world to Industrial and Metal visions of traditional holy songs, (...) pale in the radicality of their nature, when compared to “i.k.k. – purpur”.
(...) the reworking continues in the mind of the active listener. Admittedly, all of this has nothing to do with Christmas, not even of a different kind. But then you don’t have to wait until December to enjoy it.

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released January 1, 2006

Design [Cover], Photography By – M. Behrens*
Liner Notes – RLW
Photography By [Inside Booklet] – Jgrzinich
Voice – Sonja*

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