• Pete Namlook – Yesterday & Tomorrow label
30 November, 2008
Amidst all the prolific outpouring of trance or ambient discs that typified the early 1990s output of Pete Namlook’s Fax label, there was an oasis of calm, of classically-tinged meditation music, of… an almost religious hush. The Yesterday & Tomorrow sub-label only produced three titles, in a limited run of 500 copies each, never to be reissued.
But even now we find ourselves returning every so often, especially to the first disc with its Popol Vuh-esque approach to track titles, to bask in their deep, cello-driven ambience. Is it significant that Herr Kuhlmann uses his real name on these three discs? You would have to ask him, but these three are certainly very “serious” sounding records, and are well worth your attention.
“Passion” CD, Yesterday & Tomorrow, 1993
01. On the Way to the Garden of Destiny (9:09)
02. The Place of Final Consciousness (1:30)
03. I Shall Walk This Path Alone (1:21)
04. Fear: Beads of Sweat as Dark as Blood (8:14)
05. The Power Which Gives me Strength is from Another World (1:44)
06. I Submit Myself to my Destiny (0:43)
07. As Old as Mankind: Slander & Treason (8:47)
08. Alone, Even on the Last Path (9:35)
09. And the Earth was Desolate and Void. It was Dark (4:30)
10. Out of Nothing a New Hope was Born (8:05)
11. And the Lord Said: “Let There be Light – and Behold There was Light” (5:22)
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“Wandering Soul”, CD, Yesterday & Tomorrow, 1994
01. Part I (5:00)
02. Part II (5:00)
03. Part III (4:59)
04. Part IV (10:00)
05. Part V (5:00)
06. Part VI (5:00)
07. Part VII (4:59)
08. Part VIII (4:59)
09. Part IX (4:59)
10. Part X (5:00)
11. Part XI (4:59)
12. Part XII (8:21)
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“The Sunken Road” CD, Yesterday & Tomorrow, 1995
01. Part I (11:42)
02. Road II (4:09)
03. Road III (7:03)
04. Road IV (13:10)
05. Road V (1:11)
06. Road VI (14:36)
07. Road VII (5:13)
this looks totally righteous, friend. cello-driven ambience sounds good to these ears.
am i the only cello-driven-ambience-lover around these parts? it feels lonely in here.
No sir, you’re not. But perhaps you’re the only one of the close on five hundred downloaders gracious enough to leave comments once you’ve downloaded. Such is the way of it.
We talk about this a fair deal. Although we don’t mind whether people comment or not, or even just leave a Thanks!, it does make us very happy when people do. That means we sometime get upset about the disparity between downloads and comments. But we have a solution that almost makes our souls happy — we look at that number of downloads rather than the number of comments.
Blogs that just whine the whole time about lack of comments make us itchy. They end up demanding comments before they will even post, which says the blogger isn’t doing it for the right reasons. So we don’t really mind so much. But if anyone does want to comment, we will kiss you. Not really. — Thorsten S—
the secret to life is that it’s more fun being nice than it is being cold, plus it works just as well. took me about 6 lifetimes to figure that one out
Thanks very much for these. I’m along-time Namlook fan and have been looking for these for ages
Heard of Mr. Namlook from his associations with Klaus Schulze. This is the first solo ’stuff’ I’ve procured.
Hey nSays, I assume you’ve heard David Darling and Wolfgang Tiepold?
And thanks Friendsound,… first time here.
This is a wonderful choice to explore more of PN. Thank you for adding such great pearls to this blog.
Master Hook
Thanks a lot for these tasty Namlook treats – great Blog!
I have the first two discs and not the last, i haven’t listened to either for a few years now. Perhaps it’s time to dust them off.
I still have a bloody shed load of Fax CD’s and about 20 os so of their vinyl 12’s from back in the day when the ‘entertainment’ was the first consideration before the music (days spent in a fug listening to drones/glistening ambience/hard and fast trance/just Fax stuff in general.
However, on listening to them again, there really are some amazing releases on the label. The one that really ‘blew my mind’ was the 2500 Broadway ‘5′ CD which is almost akin to having some kind of religious epiphany.
Any way, if you would like me to upload any of these, i can do so, however it maybe via the dreaded Rapidshare method.
Hey Monday’s Child,
You’re very welcome to post links here, but do double-check the titles are not in print (various Fax titles do get re-released from time to time). NB, we rip at 220 or more.
Or… if you want to gather up a bunch of links and email those to us [samsa99 care of gmail.com] we’ll happily make them into proper posts at the top of the blog. Up to you, but very kind of you whatever you choose to do.