[CP 297 CD] Martin Almstedt, Dietburg Spohr, Dietmar Traeger; Frühleben, Sie Spielen Damit, Kein Spiel Zu Spielen / Du Bist Mein Spiegel, MSG-Kompositionen

March 2024; covering essentially the entire recorded output of German composer Martin Almstedt's collaborations with vocalist Dietburg Spohr & percussionist Dietmar Traeger, this double-disc set centers around the two LPs issued by Kassel-based engineer Rüdiger Ebel's Ebel Tonstudiotechnik under the Aktionsring Alternativer Musikkultur banner, "Frühleben" ("Early Life", ETST 011, 1978) & "Sie Spielen Damit, Kein Spiel Zu Spielen / Du Bist Mein Spiegel ("They Play With Not Playing A Game / You Are My Mirror", ETST 012, also 1978) with the addition of the Expanded Media Editions issue of Almstedt's "MSG-Kompositionen" (E.M.E. #D-34).  "Frühleben" really caught me by surprise; I'd come across the LP in the stacks in Germany here & there over the years (certainly not recently!) & had mentally written it off as a Stockhausen-nude-on-the-beach embrace of Haight Ashbury / May '68 ideals (conflating "Frühleben" w/ "Freie Liebe", natch) but it turns out to be an epic album-lengt