Michel Altmeyer - Troll Volume 2. - rerelease ?

[Zeuhlmate]

What happened to the CD rerelease of this album ?

Zeuhl music, mostly Magma musicians - way too good to be forgotten.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqRlpPuGBbk

https://www.discogs.com/Michel-Altma...elease/2754143

[Zeuhlmate]

https://www.michelaltmayer.com/musique/

[Scrotum Scissor]

Did anyone ever find out where Volume One made of itself? I could never locate it. The album as such isn't very good (IMO), apart from "Breakup-Dance" which can also be found on the Enneade Musea Zeuhl sampler.

[Zeuhlmate]

I never heard the whole thing, but from the first youtube-sampler-video above, it sounds promising.

[unclemeat]

There was also talk, a few years back, of a brand new Troll album. I remember seeing a teaser video from a studio session (with Altmayer's son ?) but I can't locate it now.

[MagmaShark]

Did anyone ever find out where Volume One made of itself? I could never locate it. The album as such isn't very good (IMO), apart from "Breakup-Dance" which can also be found on the Enneade Musea Zeuhl sampler.

Years ago at Baja Prog I spoke to "sorry, can't remember his name" from Musea Records. He told me there never was a Volume 1 and that the CD was called Volume 2 alluding to the fact it was a second try at making a record. Maybe he was referring to the 5 demos that were not on the CD that are floating around. Then there's the 2 bonus tracks from Volume 2 ("No Surrender" and "Solaris Eterna"). There's also a couple of live shows that feature music not on the CD. Still more - a couple of tracks on the Jean Pascal Boffo "Carillons" were leftover Troll tracks. And if you are a Altmayer fan there's also the Mandragore CD "A Revivre Le Futur" you might want to lay your hands on.

I recommend the song "Ankh" from Volume 2 as it has some fantastic powerful violin and some great punctuating horns based on the hypnotic rhythm of "Zess". And the demos feature a track based on the synthesizer solo / melody riff from "Theusz Hamtaahk"

As for a follow up to the CD I was also told by Musea to "not hold my breath".... it may have been just a pipe dream....

[moecurlythanu]

^ CD? Discogs only lists an LP. I missed this one at the time, and I used to buy LPs direct from Musea in the late 80s. No recollection of this one at all...

[Scrotum Scissor]

^ Moe, it has a wonderful pic of Altmayer 'the man' sporting a white silk shirt and croonin' through a mike on the front. And to be honest, that's what most of the record sounds like as well. Except for "Breakup-Dance", which is phenomenal.

[TheH]

I have that LP somewhere, haven't listen to it for ages.

But I remember that I wasn't impressed back than. With all those Magma guys on it I expected much more.

[Zeuhlmate]

^ CD? Discogs only lists an LP. I missed this one at the time, and I used to buy LPs direct from Musea in the late 80s. No recollection of this one at all...

The first youtube link sez:

17. apr. 2017
"Welcome Records presents the upcoming Troll Vol.2 reissue.
Originally recorded in 1987/1988, this album has been remixed and remasterised at Studio Baal Productions (Metz/France)
Michel Altmayer: drums, piano, keys, "

But it seems that it never happened.

[TheH]

I remember to even have seen the new cover somewhere for the reissue which looked much better that the original one (which wasn't to hard though)

P.S. Found it

[Zeuhlmate]

I've heard all tracks + some extras (I dont know the origin) now.

Its musically mostly in the vicinity of Magma: Merci/Bobino/Retrospektïẁ III, or Offering - or perhaps Patrick Gauthiers first album.
Zeuhl'ish motown?

Anyway - I like it.

[MagmaShark]

I did come across a reissue recently (released feb 17 2020 according to a bootleg russian site) that has 1 bonus track "Like a Rainbow" (8:26). I've never seen or heard that track before.... so I'm still curious as to the 2 bonus tracks that were listed as being on the reissue? I previously thought they were "No Surrender" and "Solaris Eterna" but I've only seen them on the facebook or bandcamp page as I recall. Bottom line... after all these years waiting all we get is one 8m song.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Many years back I described this album as 'Manilow meets Magma', and the label still sticks in my head. Got the record again from a secondhand shop here in Oslo, and It's certainly not one of the memorable Zeuhl releases from that 1st. generation. Although I can see how someone would catch the idea of actually attempting to "pop up" the whole concept.

Musique Noise were onto the same stuff during the mid-80s, and obviously also hearing bands like Propaganda, but to be fair these weren't the most convincing acts out there (although I really like those unreleased demos for MNoise's second record later issued on CD by Musea).