r I e (2024)
by V.A.
“r | e” used to be the logo of the re:flexions sound-art festival, organised anually by attenuation circuit at their Augsburg homebase from 2016 to 2021. Every edition of the festival was accompanied by a CD compilation. The idea behind the festival was to bring together experimental musicians from all sorts of genres who had never collaborated before to create new material for the CD – and to play a live set at the festival. The festival no longer exists, but “r | e” continues as a compilation series that features exclusive new compositions.
This new edition of “r | e” is yet another powerful expression of the collaborative spirit of the international experimental underground network. With more trio than duo collaborations, the album also features what is probably the widest range of acoustic instruments – including trombone and other brass, accordion, mbira, assorted percussion, a bicycle bell, and whispering, groaning voices – on any “r | e” CD so far (or at any edition of the re:flexions sound-art festival, for that matter). Throughout the first half of the album, ritualistic, quasi-”tribal” rhythms make themselves heard, which underscore the feel that we are listening to a complex ecosystem of sounds akin to a musical rainforest, only to end in a massive distorted “throw-back” (or “throw-up”, as the title of the last track has it) into post-industrial urban desolation.
More instalments of the series are in preparation, or open for submission via emerge.bandcamp.com.
File under: sound art, ambient
ACU 1046
10" Vinyl in cardboard sleeve
Released in 2024
limited to 100 copies
price: 7.00 EUR (excl. postage)
01. fourthousandblackbirds I Chelidon Frame I Terbeschikkingstelling - Non au dégriffage I Atarassia I Bombardonmentsouplesse 11:58
02. Zumaia I Lärmschutz I Teth Sin - 0412W diachronic(ally) a-typical 12:45
03. Siegfried Kärcher I {AN} EeL I DzEta - untitled 12:39
04. Anja Kreysing I Philippe Neau I Hans Castrup - noDarp 16:26
05. Wilfried Hanrath I Jacob Audrey Taves - 20th Century Throw-Up 12:29
logo by Heinz Stempfle
photo and design by Dan Penschuck (feindesign.de)
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BAD ALCHEMY
Auf r I ? (ACU 1046, proCDr), der Fortsetzung der einst beim Augsburger re:flexions sound-art Festivalpraktizierten Dating-Idee in virtueller Vernetzung, sind vier 3er-Konstellationen und ein Duo versammelt. Damit einher kommt auch eine Ausweitung der Sound-Art-Klangzone. Fourthousandblackbirds [Albérick aka .cut in Montréal] & Chelidon Frame [Mailand] mit ihren dröhnenden, rauschenden, pulsend surrenden Electronics werden von Terbeschikkingstelling [Groningen] mit tubatiefem Blech angeblasen – Seelenruhe und Flexibilität sind gefragt, um die Launen der Götter wegzustecken. Die frz.-ital. Paarung Zumaia& Teth Sin mit ihrem rhythmisierten Lärm und diffusen Rap per Synth, Audio-Recorder, Gitarre, Bass, Lyra, Percussions & Feedback wird von Lärmschutz [Rutger van Driel in Utrecht] mit Posaune bepustet. Siegfried Kärcher [Frankfurt / St. Goar], {AN} EeL [Toronto] & DzEta [Limoges] brüten mit Ableton Live, Max/MSP, Quengelstimme, Klimperpercussion und Gitarre – welche Gitarre? – amorphe Art Brut aus. Anja Kreysing [Münster], Philippe Neau & Hans Castrup [Bramsche] fusionieren mit knarrigem Akkordeon, Wasser- & Wind-Sounds und Electronics für das mit Spieluhrklingklang, Pianoklängen und Vogelgezwitscher surrealisierte 'noDarp'. Wilfried Hanrath [Wuppertal] & Jacob Audrey Taves [Holzkopf in Vancouver] machen bei '20th Century Throw-Up', dem mit Abstand aggressivsten Track, mit martialischem und blitzendem Beat, rauem Noise, dunklen und heulenden Drones hörbar, was das letzte Jahrhundert ausgekotzt hat.
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