The first part of Hans-Joachim Roedelius' Selbstportrait (Self-Portrait)
series was originally released under the title 'Sanfte Musik' on Sky
Records in 1979. Now, some forty years later, a new instalment has
arrived in the form of an album entitled 'Wahre Liebe'
During the legendary Forst years Roedelius had a private workspace with a
Farfisa organ, a Revox-A77 tape machine, an echo device and a
synthesizer which he borrowed from the Cluster studio next door now and
again. Here he experimented, practised, allowed his imagination to flow,
at any hour of the day or night, whenever he was not in the studio with
Dieter Moebius and/or Michael Rother at work on new Cluster or Harmonia
material. Roedelius always let the tape run, in order to analyze the
ideas thus captured more effectively on repeated listening. The
recordings offer us a deep insight into the creative process of his
music. Fleeting notes, slivers of ideas, so to speak, moments of
inspiration. Finger exercises, experiments in harmony, studies in rhythm
are also preserved on these magnetic tapes.
This is the recording of Suite To Be You And Me by prominent Danish
indie-jazzers I Think You’re Awesome and the Berlin-based Taïga String
Quartet. It is a seven-part suite honoring not only the marriage between
ITYA-bandleader, composer and bassplayer Jens Mikkel and Taïga String
Quartet cellist Maria Edlund, but also the marriage between the two
groups in their quest for beautiful and mocing music.
It is not meant as an overly romantic celebration of love but as a
description of relationships, romantic and otherwise between humans,
people and nature, arts and crafts. It is filled with joy and positivity
but also doubt, despair and anxiety – like all good relationships and
all good music
- Brooklyn based composer/producer/performer JG Thirlwell (Foetus,
Manorexia, Xordox) - who has collaborated with the likes of Zola Jesus,
Melvins, Swans, Kronos Quartet and many others, and is the composer for
the highly acclaimed animated TV series ‘Archer’ and 'Venture Bros’ -
and Swedish multi-instrumentalist and theatre music composer Simon
Steensland collaborate on a new album Oscillospira . . .
Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides (guitar/camera & electronics) -
opening track from Pavilion recorded at Xavier Veilhan’s ‘Studio
Venezia’ at the French pavilion for the 57th Venice Art Biennale.
Comments
1967, version 1988
Taken from the album 'Violostries' released as LP and Digital.
Release date: 3 April 2020
Sontag Shogun & Stijn Hüwels
The Floating World & The Sorrowful World
releases February 20, 2020