ZOUNDS - The Redemption Of Zounds LP synth Hautzinger and his Regenorchester XII

Hautzinger and his Regenorchester XII play a kind of “jazz about jazz”

Just in the first two tracks we can get a lid on just how wide the man’s scope is – with album opener ‘Praise Mighty’ exploring the darker side of gospel blues and it’s following track ‘Cannonball’ taking banjo and fusing it with a pounding techno beat

there is this nagging feeling of

a spoken hymn to absence

and more recently guitar

ZOUNDS - The Redemption Of Zounds LP synth Hautzinger and his Regenorchester XIILegendary English underground band Zounds first came to prominence in the early 1980s with a string of independent chart hits on Rough Trade and Crass Records. Growing out of the London area squatter communities, they quickly became key figures in the burgeoning DIY anarcho punk scene and toured Europe with contemporaries such as The Mob, Poison Girls, Crass, The Birthday Party and many others. On record, their sound was more expansive than most punk