Gunter Hampel
August 21, 1976
The Environ, New York City, NY

Gunter Hampel - vibes, piano, bass clarinet, flute
Mark Whitecage - flute, clarinet, alto sax
Perry Robinson - clarinet
Jeanne Lee - voice

Master Recording
Cassette -> Soundcard -> Goldwave -> WAV -> dbPowerAmp Converter -> FLAC

Dedicated to Carville, The OrchidDoctor, and Doug Walker

Warning - This is not a very good recording.
I recorded this on one of the cheapest possible brands of cassette tapes back in 1976,
and this is the first time that I have played the tapes in almost 35 years. A lot of the
recording has only one channel functional, and on Piece 2, there is about a ten-second splice
where the tape got caught in the cassette deck.

Most of you know me for sharing recording of Magma, but some DIME veterans might remember
the Fall of 2007 when Hanwaker seeded 52 of my cassette tapes that I supplied to him. A lot
of these tapes were from the New York City music scene in the early to mid 1980s.

The current flood of AACM-related works by Carville and The OrchidDoctor has inspired me to go
through by boxes of cassettes that are sitting in my basement. I will be sharing a few of these,
but I am afraid that these are concerts that were recorded on a low quality brand of cassette and
probably has not held up well over the years. I am also dedicating these concerts to my late dear
friend, Doug Walker, who introduced me to free jazz when I was merely a babe.

Right before I started college, I went to see Gunter Hampel play at The Environ, a loft in
lower Manhattan. I don't even remember what kind of tape recorder I used to record these
shows. I don't remember much abotu this concert except that only a few people were there.

Enjoy.