caveinspiredmusic.com PICTURE COVERS – REAL CAVES GERMANY _____________________________________ Balver Höhle Balve im Hönnetal, Sauerland PC-RE-DE1 West Germany 1977 LP: BALVER KINDERCHOR Perf: Balver Kinderchor (Choral) Label: HFH 201177 Photo: Manfred Opitz Notes: Gatefold LP cover shows the Balver Kinderchor (Balver Children’s Choir) consisting here of 68 choral singers, predominantly girls standing on the sloping ledge just under the cave entrance. The choral master, Lothar Schuhenn stands in the right foreground. The cover photo was taken against the cave wall just under the entrance overhang of the Balver Höhle. A careful comparison with a photo of the entrance dating to 1959 confirms this by the black vertical stains on the wall on left, which conform perfectly with those seen behind the group on the 1977 LP cover photo. Today an entrance barricade with wide doors partially hide these wall stains. The back cover has a black & white photo of what looks like a full orchestra concert on the stage back inside Balver Höhle, before a large audience. This choral LP was not recorded in the cave; it was made at the Tonstudio Helmut Firll in Menden, a few kilometers north of Balve. It was a local private pressing of originally only 700 copies, which quickly went out of print. A further pressing was ordered. (Scherer 2011) For more information about Balver Höhle and the various jazz concerts that were recorded there see under Recorded in Caves – In Natural Caves – Germany. Ref: Balver Höhle, Website (in German), balver-hoehle.de Scherer, Stefan 2011, Kinderchor zu seiner Glanzzeit, derwesten.de _____________________________________________________ Dechenhöhle Lemathe, Sauerland PC-RE-DE2 Germany 1999 CD: SMOULDERING FIRE Perf: Günther Müller & Friends (World – Avant-Garde) Label: Traurige Tropen 006
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PICTURE COVERS – REAL CAVES
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Balver Höhle Balve im Hönnetal, Sauerland PC-RE-DE1 West Germany 1977 LP: BALVER KINDERCHOR Perf: Balver Kinderchor (Choral) Label: HFH 201177 Photo: Manfred Opitz Notes: Gatefold LP cover shows the Balver Kinderchor (Balver Children’s Choir) consisting here of 68 choral singers, predominantly girls standing on the sloping ledge just under the cave entrance. The choral master, Lothar Schuhenn stands in the right foreground.
The cover photo was taken against the cave wall just under the entrance overhang of the Balver Höhle. A careful comparison with a photo of the entrance dating to 1959 confirms this by the black vertical stains on the wall on left, which conform perfectly with those seen behind the group on the 1977 LP cover photo. Today an entrance barricade with wide doors partially hide these wall stains. The back cover has a black & white photo of what looks like a full orchestra concert on the stage back inside Balver Höhle, before a
large audience. This choral LP was not recorded in the cave; it was made at the Tonstudio Helmut Firll in Menden, a few kilometers north of Balve. It was a local private pressing of originally only 700 copies, which quickly went out of print. A further pressing was ordered. (Scherer 2011) For more information about Balver Höhle and the various jazz concerts that were recorded there see under Recorded in Caves – In Natural Caves – Germany. Ref: Balver Höhle, Website (in German), balver-hoehle.de Scherer, Stefan 2011, Kinderchor zu seiner Glanzzeit, derwesten.de
Photo: (?) Notes: Foldout CD cover shows a decorated ceiling in this show cave. In the center are bright red stalactites presumably lit by colored lights. Inside the jacket is another cave interior showing a decorated portion of the wall and ceiling. Ref: Dechenhöhle, Website (in German), dechenhöhle.de Günther Müller & Friends, Smouldering Fire CD, traurigetropen.de Hammerschmidt, Elmar & Niggemann, Stefan .2007, Führer zur Dechenhöhle, Schriften zur Karst- u Höhlenkunde in Westfalen, 34p Lindenmayr, Franz 2014, Sammelm und Höhle, lochstein.de Lindenmayer, Franz n.d., Hörsinn und Höhle [Sense of Hearing & the Cave], lochstein.de
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PC-RE-DE3 Germany 2000 CD: KRISTALLE Perf: Günter Müller, Chris Kramer, & Andreas Burghardt (New Age) Label: Blow Till Midnight (?) Photo: (Color) Notes: An overall shot in the Kaiserhalle (Kaiser Room) of this cave showing a massive flowstone cascade and draperies tinted turquoise green in the foreground and a tall stalagmite tinted red in the background. The colors might have been obtained by the use of colored lights but the hues are so intense and artificial looking that it is assumed the photo was retouched. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under New Age Music – Germany and also under Recorded in Natural Caves – Germany. Ref: A. S.- Red 2000, Günter Müller, Kristalle, Kultra-Extra - das Online Magazin, Okt. 2004, kultura-extra.de Dechenhöhle, Website (in German), dechenhöhle.de Doerr, Frank 2001, Günter Müller, Kristalle, Reiki-Magazin, n. 1, (in german), reiki-land.de Günter H. Müller, Musik-Jenseits des Alltäglichen-CDs, naturklangmusik.de Lindenmayer, Franz n.d., Dechenhöhle in Sauerland, (in German), lochstein.de Lindenmayer, Franz n.d., Hörsinn und Höhle [Sense of Hearing & the Cave], (in German), lochstein.de
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PC-RE-DE4 Germany 2002 CD: BLUE CAVE Perf: Crazy Chris Kramer & Friends (New Age) Label: Blow Till Midnight 0000087/Koch International Photo: (Color) Notes: A close-up shot of Die Laube (The Arbor) group of small calcite pillars and draperies lit by a blue light. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under New Age Music – Germany. Ref: Anon. n.d. 1,Crazy Chris Kramer, Diskographie, chris-kramer.de
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PC-RE-DE5 Germany 2005 CD: ECHO IN DER UNENDLICHKEIT Perf: Günter Müller (New Age) Label: (?) Photo: (Color) Notes: A close-up shot of the concentric circles created by several water drops falling into a cave pool. A small portion of calcite flowstone is seen on the right. The same photo was printed in reverse on the backside of this CD. For more information on the cave-inspired music on this album see under New Age Music – Germany and also under Recorded in Natural Caves – Germany. Ref: Günter H. Müller, Musik-Jenseits des Alltäglichen-CDs, naturklangmusik.de
_____________________________________________________ Grosses Schulerloch Neuessing, Fränkische Alb PC-RE-DE6 Germany 1998 CDs: TROPSTEINHÖHLE SCHULERLOCH – FAZINIERENDE KLÄNGE IN EINER UNTERIRDISCHEN WELT Perf: (Various) (World & New Age) Label: Gruber 001 Photo: (Color) Limbrunner Notes: The cover photo shows small stalactites in the cave discolored probably by early smoke torches. New white calcite stalactites are forming at the tips of each older stalactite. The CD itself has two stylized long-eared bats in black silhouette. The inner tray card has a rough stick map showing how to find this show cave. Ref: Duchck, Jochen 2014, Großes Schulerloch, showcaves
Schulerloch, Description (in German), Wikipedia Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch CD’s (Höhlenmusik), schulerloch.de
Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch, Official Website (in German), schulerloch.de
EINER UNTERIRDISCHEN WELT (Vol. 2) Perf: Various (World & New Age) Label: (?) Photo: (Color) Notes: This CD album released by this show cave is stamped “Ausverkauft” meaning that it is out of print as of 2006. One cover shows a flowstone cascade in the cave. Ref: Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch CD’s (Höhlenmusik), schulerloch.de Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch – FaszinierendeKlänge in einer unterirdischen Welt CD, music-downloader
EINER UNTERIRDISCHEN WELT (Vol. 3) Perf: Various (World & New Age) Label: (?) Photo: (Color) Notes: This CD album released by this show cave is stamped “Ausverkauft” meaning that it is out of print as of 2006. It shows an aerial view of the entrance buildings surrounded by a forest of trees in the Autumn. Ref: Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch CD, cdtrrracks.com Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch CD’s (Höhlenmusik), schulerloch.de
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PC-RE-DE9 Germany 2000 CDs: TROPSTEINHÖHLE SCHULERLOCH IV Perf: (Various) (World & New Age) Label: Reinsch 004 Photo: (Color) Holzinger Notes: The cover photo of the fourth CD in the series shows small soda straw stalactites in the cave. The back page of the liner notes has a small stylized
bat with large ears standing like a rabbit and looking askance with a satisfied smile. The CD itself has two stylized long-eared bats in black silhouette. The inner tray card has a rough stick map showing how to find this show cave. Ref: Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch CD’s (Höhlenmusik), schulerloch.de Various,Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch IV, tagtuner
________________________________________________ PC-RE-DE10 Germany 2001 Compilation CD: DAS BESTE AUS DEN VERANSTALTENGEN Perf: (?) (Experimental & New Age) Label: (?) Photo: (Color) Notes: This CD album released by this show cave is stamped “Ausverkauft” meaning that it is out of print as of 2006. This was the fifth volume in a series of CDs presenting music recorded live in this cave. The cover shows a stylized cave passage profile in gray silhouette with small stalactites hanging from the ceiling. Ref: Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch CD’s (Höhlenmusik), schulerloch.de
________________________________________________ PC-RE-DE11 Germany 2003 Compilation CD: KLANGREISE IN DIE UNTERWELT Perf: (?) (Experimental & New Age) Label: (?) Photo: (Color) Notes: This double CD album was the sixth volume in a series of CDs presenting music recorded live in this cave. It shows a rather barren room in the cave, Tempelraum (Temple Room), where a guardrail is lit by light on the right. The back cover of the 12-page booklet has a photo of a large room in the cave, probably Tempelraum, with numerous tiny lights scattered about the flat floor. In the 12-page liner notes booklet a photo is provided for each of the 19 groups that were included on this double CD and of these, 12 photos show the group performing in the cave. Both CDs carry a design of a stylized black long-eared bat. The inner tray card has a rough stick map showing how to find this show cave. Ref: Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch, CD 1, cdtrrracks.com & CD 2, cdtrrracks.com Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch CD’s (Höhlenmusik), schulerloch.de Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch – Klangreise in die Unterwelt CD2, gnubd.org
________________________________________________ PC-RE-DE12 Germany 2004 Compilation CD: HÖHLENMUSIK Perf: Scala Tympani, Gabriele Ogrissek, Yanni, etc. (New Age) Label: Otter LC 10396 Photo: (Color) Notes: This is the most recent CD, the seventh in the series of albums released by this show cave. The front cover picture shows draperies and flowstone and the back cover shows a portion of the ceiling in the cave. The 24-page liner notes booklet has several cave or cave-related photos: the natural entrance to the cave; a shelter cave overhang near the cave; small soda straw stalactites (same photo as the cover of the fourth CD in the series); illustration of a cave lion; illustration of a Neanderthal man; Tempelraum (Temple Room); a dancer in the cave “The Cave Fairy” (shown below); a table set for the candlelight dinner in the cave; an aerial shot of the entrance buildings surrounded by a forest of trees in the Autumn (the same photo as the cover of the third CD in the series).
The CD itself has a stylized long-eared bat in black silhouette. The inner tray card (see above) has a rough stick map showing how to find this show cave. This stick map is encircled by six small color vignette photos (clockwise from top left): a passage in the cave; two percussionists on either side striking gongs with two mallets; a flowstone cascade; another cave passage; a wide room with many small stalactites; and large lit candles on a table set for the candlelight dinner in the cave. For more information about the content of “Sleep Little Bat” (Disc 1 – Tk 17) see under Contemporary Music – Fusion and for further data on this CD see under Recorded in Natural Caves – Germany. Ref: Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch CD’s (Höhlenmusik), schulerloch.de Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch, Höhlenmusik, cdtracks.org & cdtrrracks.com Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch, Höhlenmusik, musik-mp3-download Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch, Höhlenmusik, .tagtuner
________________________________________________ PC-RE-DE13 Germany 2004 CD: CHANTEN IN SCHULRLOCH AM 11.9.2004 Perf: Offenen Chantgruppe Munchen (Religious & World – RIC# ) Label: Heilen mit Kängen (Cat. No. Unknown) Photo: (Color) Notes: This large choral group is shown in three photos singing in the Tempelraum (Temple Room). In the top photo a guitarist, probably the music director, Wolfgang Friedrich, stands in front of several votive candles and leads the chant. The back cover of the liner notes shows one of the passages in this show cave. Ref: Franz Lindenmayr 2014, Donation of this CD Wolfgang Friederich, Bio, (in German), klangheilzentrum Zentrum für heilenden Kläng, München, (in German), klangheilzentrum
_____________________________________________________ Heimensteiner Höhle Neidlingen, Schwäbische Alb PC-RE-DE14 West Germany 1989 CD: ANTON BRUCKNER – SYMPHONIE NR. 4 Cond: Eugen Jochum (Classical) Label: Deutsche Grammophon 427 200-2 Artist: Franz Richter (Austrian, 1774-1863) Title: (?) 1833 Notes: A very characteristic painting from the German-Austrian Romantic period where the artist has taken several liberties with the
motif. The round tower of the ruins somewhat resembles that of the Lichtenstein Castle at Honau in Swabia, but this castle was only reconstructed in 1840-42, almost ten years after the painting. Thanks to the Swiss caver, Pierre Strinati, the cave was identified by means of an old engraving from the
same period as the painting. This engraving was made from a position further back in the cave and shows a different shape for the entrance arch. The tower of the castle is half as high and not round as it is in the Richter painting. This 24m-long cave is a natural tunnel zigzagging through the top edge of the cliffs on the west side of a typical Jura mountain u-shaped valley (reculé), located 2.2 km SW of Neidlingen in Swabia. The ruins of the Reußenstein castle can be seen (much further away) when looking out of the east entrance of the tunnel, and the shape of the entrance here is high and pointed as in the engraving. In the painting a hiker with a
backpack sits resting next to a breakdown block just inside the entrance. However, just in front of the entrance to the actual cave there is a large block, which sits atop a separate small pocket cave. Ref: Anton Bruckner, Berlner Philharmoniker CD, Discogs Binder, Hans ca.1964, Geheimnisvolle Schwäbische Alb; Schwabenwerk, Stuttgart, p. 49 Ducheck, Jochen 2014, Heimensteiner Höhle, (in German), showcaves Heimensteiner Höhle, Data (in German), Wikipedia Lindenmayr, Franz 2014, Sammelm und Höhle, lochstein.de Mayer, Ludwig & Grünewald, Ernst ca.1836, Engraving: Reissenstein, wlb-stuttgart.de Strinati, Pierre, Letter dated 20 Mar. 2006, Cologny, Switzerland Wanderung zum Heimenstein und die Heimensteinerhöhle, (in German), freizeit-esslingen.de
_____________________________________________________ Hohler Fels Schelklingen, Baden-Würtemberg, Schwäbische Alb PC-RE-DE15 Germany 1998 CD: HÖHLENKONZERT Perf: Martin Bürck (Contemporary) Label: (No label given) Photo: (Color) Limbrunner Notes: The cover photo shows several gongs (over 15) hanging on their stands inside the cave lit by two foot lights. This would have been Martin Bürck’s instillation for his concert in the cave on May 25, 1996. For further information about the cave-inspired music performed by Martin Bürck see under Contemporary Art Music – Avant-Garde – Höhlenkonzert and under Recorded in Natural Caves – Germany. Ref: Lindenmayr, Franz 2009, Literatur / Music und Höhle [Man & the Cave] (in German), lochstein.de Martin Burch, Info (in German), kil-lik.de
________________________________________________ PC-RE-DE16 Germany 1999 CD: MUSICA POVERA – INSIDE THE HOLLOW CLIFF Perf: Christoph Haas (Contemporary) Label: Klangräume 30440 Photo: (Color) Notes: The back cover photo shows the main room in the cave with its flat floor and high ceiling. The 16-page liner notes booklet has 15 pages with an out-of-focus cave ceiling shots tinted gray or bistre as background under the text. Within
the booklet there is a photo of Christoph Haas playing the shaman’s drum in the cave, an old engraving of the valley showing the cave on the right, and an exterior shot of the Hohler Fels cliff with the cave entrance on the lower left.
Ref: Haas, Christoph n.d., Musica Povera CD, the-ocean-of-rhythm Hohler Fels Gallery, showcaves Lindenmayr, Franz 2009, Literatur / Music und Höhle [Man & the Cave] (in German), lochstein.de
Muzik im “Hohlen Fels,“ 2013, christoph-haas _____________________________________________________
Unidentified German Cave No. 1 PC-RE-DE17 West Germany 1986 LP: WILD SPELLS Perf: Shiny Gnomes (Rock – Neo-Psychedelic) Label: Pastell POW 7 Photo: (Tinted) Notes: Massive white stalactites and draperies tinted turquoise blue. Two stalagmites in silhouette in foreground. Ref: Lindenmayer, Franz n.d., Hörsinn und Höhle [Sense of Hearing & the Cave], lochstein.de Shiny Gnomes, Wild Spells LP, Discogs
________________________________________________ PC-RE-DE18 Germany 2001 Compilation CD: WILD SPELLS (AND HOW IT ALL BEGAN) Perf: Shiny Gnomes (Rock – Neo-Psychedelic) Label: Sireena 2007 Photo: (Tinted) Notes: A closer detail of the same massive white stalactites and draperies shown on the earlier Shiny Gnomes LP but this time tinted purple. Ref: Shiny Gnomes, Wild Spells (How It All Began) CD, Discogs
_____________________________________________________ Unidentified German Cave No. 2 PC-RE-DE19 Germany 1994 CD: RING OF WORLDS Perf: Alpha Flight (New Age) Prod Co: Syn-Music; Münster Label: Syn-Music SYN-CD 94-01
Artist: (Color) Ingo Mesche Notes: A ring of round medallions, one of which (top center) shows an indistinct well-decorated cave interior where the stalagmites are reflected in the waters of a cave lake. These could be the formations in Märchendom in the Feengrotten (Saalfeld, Thüringer Wald), which is a show cave-mine. Ref: Alpha Flight, Ring of Worlds CD, Discogs Brüser, Wolfgang 2011, Personal collection, Dechenhöhle, Lemathe, Germany, 7 Oct. 2011
_____________________________________________________ Unidentified German Cave No. 3 PC-RE-DE20 Germany 1999 CD Single: DAS SCHIFF DER SEHNSUCHT Perf: Bergkristall (Popular) Prod Co: Ast Record; Mürzzuschlag Label: Ast Record 10 029 Artist: (Color) (?) Notes: This group of six musicians are gathered around four stalagmites under a backlit ceiling with clusters of soda straw stalactites. This is a German pop (Schlager) duo, normally consisting of
Stephan and Toni (Stephan Fleschhut & Anton Nittbaur), but for this CD single (“The Ship of Desire”) they were joined by other musicians. Bergkristall Musik Gbr is based in Wemding, Bavaria. There is a show cave up that way, 108 km east of Wemding, namely Schulerloch, that could well have been where this cover photo was taken.
Ref: Bergkristall, Info, bergkristall-musik.wixsite Bergkristall, Das Schiff der Sehnsucht CD, Amazon.de & Amazon.co.uk Tropfsteinhöhle Schulerloch, Home site, schulerloch.de
