Walter Wegmüller – Tarot (2xLP)

Remastered by Dieter Dierks and Dennis Flüchter at Dierks Studios. Walter Wegmüller (1937 - 2020) was a Swiss-Japanese artist who grew up under difficult circumstances in Bern.

After training in Basel, Bern, Paris and London, he began his artistic career. In addition to painting and sculpture, Walter Wegmüller worked across the entire spectrum of art.

He gained widespread international recognition, particularly from 1974 with the publication of his "Gypsy Tarot".

He was successful at countless exhibitions in Europe and overseas and was repeatedly presented with prizes and awards.

However, he never forgot his origins as a Verdingkind and "Rom child from the Kalderasch tribe".

In 1973, he released the album Tarot with an all-star band. The band included successful musicians such as Klaus Schulze, Manuel Göttsching, Harald Grosskopf, Dieter Dierks, Hartmut Enke, Jürgen Dollase and Walter Westrupp. It remained Walter Wegmüller's only foray into the world of music.

The album was last released on vinyl in 1976. It was released on CD in 2000 and has now been remastered for the first time.

Reviews

"The originally [...] recorded double LP with Wegmüller's Schwyzerdütsch accent, spacy sounds and herbaceous drive ('Die Gerechtigkeit') has now been magnificently remastered by Dierks and Dennis Flüchter for several formats." (Good Times, February/March 2023)

Genre: Pop & Rock