During the world wide Covid-19 lockdown, luck would have it that renowned experimental ethnomusicologist Dr. Franz Schlagobers uncovered an unmarked box in his vast archive, containing unheard Circus Homunculus recordings from the 1930s. This wealth of new music is now being painstakingly recovered. Recorded on tape rather than wire, it was possible to restore the recordings to a better quality than the old wire recordings.
Documents uncovered by Dr. Schlagobers show that the Circus Homunculus, or El Circo Homunculo as it was known in the pre WW2 Chilean underground, traveled to Paris on invitation by André Breton. Next to diving into the Paris surrealist underbelly, and allegedly impressing a young Isidore Isou, they were able to record some of their newer material on the brand new medium of magnetic tape.
The Circus' 1930s recordings show them taking up more musical influences from South American folk music, but also the contemporary avant-garde, while retaining their irreverent "kitchen-sink" attitude. The dance and costume art that accompanied the music is, alas, sadly lost to time almost completely.
What happened to the Circus after 1936 is not completely clear. Some documents suggest that they gave up art entirely to enlist with the international brigades of the Spanish Civil War. However, the trustworthiness of these documents is unclear.
The 1932 to 1936 recordings of the Circus will be released one by one as they are restored. Thanks to "Bandcamp", you, too, can now support Dr. Schlagobers' work!
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