ALU was a spinoff of Sand featuring two of its three members, Johannes Vester and Ludwig Papenberg. They recorded a studio album in 1980, but only two of the songs were released on a 7" single. Their only full-length album releases at the time were two live LP's, Störfaktor I - ALU's riskantes Experiment and Licht, both recorded with a female vocalist, Nadja. But now the studio album, Autismenschen, has been released on CD by C.I.P. Records. I haven't heard the album, but here's an excerpt from the liner notes (written by Current 93's David Tibet):"Moving savagely away from [Sand's] trippy, inner-space explorations, ALU inhabited a colder
, more paranoiac country than their predecessors. Yet [with Sand] I hear the beginnings of the alienated schizophrenia that comes so intensely to the fore in the material released by ALU during their brief life, as well as on this remarkably unsettling album that was, until now, never released ... ALU possessed a sharp, cutting and motorised beat with the guttural sound of those at war with anything around them. The hallucinations of Sand had given way to something far colder, far darker. Harsh, uncomfortable, arrhythmic within its own metronomic rhythm, loveless yet full of passion, ALU were, like Sand, unjustly overlooked -- almost forgotten. Perhaps in these apocalyptic, crepuscular years their time has, at last, come."Taken from http://www.gepr.net/aa.html
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