CASSIBER 1982-1992

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Cassiber’s approach changed as the group evolved. We began with the idea of improvising, not in the highly abstract manner of the time, but towards shaped pieces that would sound composed and arranged. That was the way we approached what eventually became Man or Monkey. There was no group then, just a plan to record — and when I was invited by Heinerto participate, one track, with drummer Peter Prochir, had already been completed[1]. I wrote a provisional text for it (Our Colourful Culture) on the evening I arrived and gave it to Christoph the next day — along with a notebook of other texts he might use, if he felt like it, as we worked. Other than that, there was no discussion or preparation or planning — we just improvised, listened back, accepted or rejected what we’d done and then moved on. With one exception: about half way through the week, after a dispiriting afternoon in which everything we’d tried had been rejected, Alfred laid out, over dinner, a set of rules for a structured improvisation — which we played once when we got back into the studio. That was the long track Man or Monkey. Everything else just emerged from the process. Without really trying, by the end of the week, we found we’d evolved a group identity, an aesthetic and just under an hour of music. And since we seemed suddenly to have become a band rather than just a project, we started to cast about for a name. After running with a few contenders — I seem to recall Risiko was popular for a while — we settled on Cassiber, which was a revised spelling of Kassiber, a slang word derived probably from the Hebrew kassaw — that means a secret message or a note smuggled out of prison.

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