Remus Giger

Breaking News - February 27th 2008

This recording was made during rehearsals for performance art piece 'Strange Eden'. For the poetry, Giger's voice is put through a Vocox processor where it is made to sound like a thousand voices turn...

This dark, cynical poem looks at time measured by human mile-stones such as love, politics, empire and science.

A traditional organ fugue written to celebrate the magic of winter.

An extract from the instrumental electronic suite, 'Solaris', a musical portrait of our Sun. Part 3 is a waltz time piece describing the Sun seen from space, set against a backdrop of other stars.

From Remus Giger's classical portfolio, a two-part traditional organ fugue to celebrate the magic of winter. Inspired by snow covered landscapes and spiced with a dash of humour (listen out for the J....

An instrumental composition originally written for a performance art piece called 'Strange Eden'. Every vocal sound on this track is an EVP, or a 'ghost voice' captured on tape, believed by some to be...

A very unusual and original rock ballad. An out-take from the 'Glass-Trap' sessions, this track has been reconstructed and re-mastered from a rare surviving personal cassette copy and is available pub...

This track taken from the Canterbury Sessions is another originally inspired by an old folk song. The track was built on a 'one-take' acoustic performance by Giger, Laning (who turns in a haunting bac...

Yet another track from the Canterbury sessions. A song about two people in orbit around each other's lives, until one starts to fall. Worked around complimenting rhythms with a virtuoso slap-bass perf...

This work, from the Canterbury sessions, may be rooted in a traditional Irish folk song but is a dark and edgy hymn to life in modern cities. Eins, zwei drei ... fear.

More from the Canterbury sessions. This sweet sounding, melodic song betrays a bitter tale of loss and longing. Tammo Laning and Richard Devine collaborate once again with Remus to work their musical ...

What is the Holy Grail? Where can we find it? Remus Giger goes in search for the historical evidence for the Holy Grail. Part Two in a series that looks for the historical evidence behind legendary pe...

Who was King Arthur? Did he really exist? Remus Giger goes in search of evidence for the existence of the real King Arthur. Part One in a series of articles where Remus Giger goes in search of the his...

One long summer weekend in the Canterbury studios with the Dutch 'Dude', Tammo, laying his palms across the congas and Mr Devine playing amazing bass. I have no idea what genre it is but it's definate...

Melancholic piano based instrumental with a strong analogue synth flavour. Stripped back production enhances this simple melodic work.

...today left-handers are forced to live in a right-handed world and that doesn't look like changing any day soon. This is bad enough for lefties by itaelf but there is another, more significant under...

A poem about Grunewald Forest, near Berlin, Germany. Location of the Olympiastadion and theatre for the final battle of WWII in April 1945.

Poetry

A poem about the making of the film Fitzcarraldo.

Poetry

Is environmentalism nothing more than a Godless religion, a delusion that is potentially a bigger threat to human life on Earth than the environmental disasters it aims to avert? The uncomfortable tru...

A short poem on rememberance and loss.

Catchy, bombastic cyber jazz from the home studio of eccentric English composer? You better believe it. Five keyboards, eight trumpets, two flutes, three saxopohnes and a bottle of Scotch whiskey went...