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Long out of print, this is the definitive Cassiber collection. It contains all 4 classic studio albums, re-mastered by Bob Drake, plus 2 extra CD collections: The Way it Was, an amazing set of studio sketches & live recordings (w/ guest appearances by Dietmar Diesner & Rene Lussier), and Collaborations, documenting 3 extended special projects, those being Duck and Cover - with the addition of Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause, Tom Cora and George Lewis, Cassix - a recording project from Montepulciano with half of Stormy Six; and one track from Otomo Yoshihide/Ground Zero's Cassiber Live in Tokyo with Shinoda Masami Remix project. Also included is a 2 hour DVD of live & studio footage from Brasil, Frankfurt & Berlin - including a mini-documentary made during the recording of A Face We All Know. The new edition comes in a sturdy box w/ 40 pages of documents, interviews, information, photographs, pictures, itineraries & miscellaneous memorabilia. Bio: In 1982 Cassiber crashed into the Deutsche Neue Welle. Founded by Heiner Goebbels, Alfred Harth, Christoph Anders and Chris Cutler, they fused experimental rock, fringe jazz, punk, pop, plunderphonics, improvisation & musique concréte into a complex form of studio - and then concert - composition that was unique in mashing experimental form w/ a risky and expressionist mode of execution. In content and aesthetics, Cassiber tracked and anticipated the political and technological changes of its times, shifting, over its 10 years of existence, from the high stakes energy of the earlier releases to the more composed & complex studio works of its later years. Most impressively, Cassiber opened up song form by abandoning, extending or crashing sideways into it - and by creating unlikely structures from a combination of noise, libido, high musicality, dramaturgy & cultural debris. Discs 1) Man of Monkey 2) Beauty and the Beast 3) Perfect Worlds 4) A Face We All Know 5) The Way It Was 6) Collaborations 7) Elvis Has Left the Building