State Laughter

Stories like the manifestation of Bogner's music being released are magic for me. They give me hope as a sonic archaeologist that their are more stories to be heard. Bogner was unknown till after her death when a chance meeting between her son and Jan Jelinek yielded multiple albums worth of material spanning decades. Ursula, from the outside, was a normal member of society: pharmacist, mother, citizen. She had a proclivity for all things weird though which she concealed in her home, building an electronic music studio where she would record for decades. To her family it was no different than knitting or collecting stamps. Her alien landscapes are anything but normal though. Proto-Stereolab electronic backing tracks (maybe thats the sometimes exotica vibe i get). Primitive Bruce Haack bedroom recordings....maybe i'm being generous with the comparisons...but i think its the more structured (albeit primitive) electronic composition that has me putting her in these camps instead of early computer music bleep bloop nonsense. It sounds like pulp science fiction. Retro-futurism. Would be sick to have seen her jam with Space Lady!