KASPAR HAUSER -Live at Zone Art Center 1982 (Post punk garage art rock band) LP

Post punk garage art rock band Kaspar Hauser lit up the Western Mass. indie rock scene in the early 1980s, before Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. put that scene on the map. Drawing on inspiration from underground music and arthouse films, Kaspar Hauser released a 7" EP in 1982 - this live set includes early versions of the three EP songs and eight more songs that are previously unreleased!

PRAISE FOR KASPAR HAUSER:

"The appropriate opener 'Mysteries Of The Organism' (a reference, perhaps to Serbian director Dušan Makavejev's controversial film about Wilhelm Reich - these lads are acknowledged fans of underground films and Makavejev coincidentally died seven years ago this week!) catapults the audience into a frenetic blast of keyboard-driven "garage art punk rock"/new wave with a catchy B-52's vibe."  Jeff Penczak in Terrascope Online

"Amid the shifting shadows of early-1980s American underground culture, where post-punk urgency met the strange allure of synthesized atmospheres, emerges a long-buried live document: “Live At The Zone Art Center – Springfield, Mass. – April 24, 1982” by Kaspar Hauser – issued in 2025 by Mesh Art Records on CD. It is a testimony not only to what might have been, but to what was: a band poised on the edge, capturing a moment of subterranean energy, unpolished, immediate, and beautifully human. For those drawn to the liminal zones of psychedelic, post-punk, and underground rock, this release offers both a time capsule and a rediscovery. "Timelord Michalis in TimeMachine Productions

"The album suggests that Kaspar Hauser had a lot to offer 43 years ago and the emergence of this recording will give those who like me, delve into the hidden margins of New Wave and Post-Punk something new and valid to investigate... If I had been living in Springfield, Massachusetts back in 1982, this would have been my favorite local band back then. That much is clear." Jim Donato in Post-Punk Monk