A Winged Victory For The Sullen
DocMcCoy
"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,913 Posts
I gather this is getting a lot of Pitchfuck/blog love at the moment, but I couldn't care less about that. All I know is that a link to this Soundcloud page came up in my Twitter feed yesterday, and I've listened to nothing else today. I don't know what it is about music with a smacked-out kind of vibe and acres of space and air that's appealing to me right now, but this is definitely hitting the same sweet spot that late 70s Eno, Talk Talk, PCO and noodly Kraut stuff like Klaus Sch??lze, Tangerine Dream or Ash Ra Tempel/G??ttsching usually reach.
The gestation of it is kind of interesting - from the press release;
The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial B??sendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination.
Apparently the last time the word "ingemination" appeared in any dictionary was in the 1913 edition of Webster's. I got your "back to mono" right here, bitches.
This video is interesting, too, if only for the shots of the (now closed) DDR Radio Studios. Such a shame that there are fewer and fewer of these beautiful big rooms where people can record things like this.
These guys are playing the Volksb??hne in Berlin next month. I'm there.
The gestation of it is kind of interesting - from the press release;
The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial B??sendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination.
Apparently the last time the word "ingemination" appeared in any dictionary was in the 1913 edition of Webster's. I got your "back to mono" right here, bitches.
This video is interesting, too, if only for the shots of the (now closed) DDR Radio Studios. Such a shame that there are fewer and fewer of these beautiful big rooms where people can record things like this.
These guys are playing the Volksb??hne in Berlin next month. I'm there.
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you have changed the landscape of my day entirely.
Thank You for posting.
from what ive gone through of this, the execution us nearly flawless for what it's trying to achieve. this delivers on all the promises godspeed you black emperor! couldn't keep.
You really need to play it loud on a decent system, though - the bottom end's as heavy as anything on DMZ, for instance.
This was last night, and it was tremendous. If you have the opportunity to see them, don't sleep.
A tragic consequence of the discovery that people can make dollar offa the demo version of Fruity Loops.
I'd never heard of any of these people before, nor that "Modern Classical Drone" as a styleway existed, but it's nice. I have hella bass available and it's nice to see it used. P*ul, did I ever mention that a friend of mine once had the Paddy's Wigwam gig? I am sure you know of where I speak. I recalled that one thing that defined the sound in such spaces was that you could actually perceive the air moving, especially when there were passages of quiet after big chords.
It's something that I one day hope to capture and add to, say, the sound of a double-bass being bowed, or played pizz, which would sound like vikings are trying to break down your (cathederal) doors.
Ta again.
I'm assuming this is all kinda tongue-in-cheek on their part, right?
Srs question. I'm not up on these guys. And while I have no doubts about their musical abilities or the quality of their music (I listened to the above clip), there's no way they are alltogether serious with these song/group titles, right?