MirrorWorldMusic

MirrorWorldMusic is a label, archive, and publishing imprint for diverse idiosyncratic music projects that are linked in some way by their protagonists. The diversity of the stylistic scope, spanning more than 30 years, is unified by an overarching experimental approach and a multi-minded spirit.

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Imari KokuboDirk Dresselhaus, and Derek Shirley started out playing free improvisations at the ZONE studio in November 2022. fuzzkraut 15 is their 15th session and second krautfuzz release via MirrorWorldMusic.

The agenda is to boil down stylistic concepts to their essence by playing adventurous, energetic, and time-transcending music without a safety net while giving some extra attention to communication in-between each other as well as to the individual subconsciousness.

krautfuzz is embossed by an angular-futuristic tension, spanning from fuzzed-out neo-psych-rock to abstract, heavily processed minimalism, and is open at the fringes, which, in the case of fuzzkraut 15means the addition of stream of consciousness poetry and overdubs of wind instruments to sport traces of some Sun Ra Arkestra-inspired free jazz vibe within its noisy textures.

Their LIVE PREMIERE in Berlin in autumn 2023 was sold out and celebrated frenetically. It consisted of 2 live sets; the 1st set they played as a trio, and for the 2nd set they invited surprise guest Murat Ertel (of Baba Zula), which inspired the general modus operandi for live shows in the future:

First set as a trio, and after a short break, a second set with surprise guests.

Release concert: 23. March 2024 – 20/21CET – Urban Spree, Berlin

krautfuzz + iLan (live video) + special guest

Pre-sale tickets here !

krautfuzz at MWM

PROMO: heythere@mirrorworldmusic.com

LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com

MWM rough #2 : Schneider TM

Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MWM rough ::: series :

Schneider TM

This instant composition titled Gvoon Bloose was originally recorded for Arthur Schmidt’s video installation series “Innen” as part of Gvoon (Global Visions of other Natures) and exposes Dirk Dresselhaus’ solo project Schneider TM in its most bare yet intense form. Performed in one take on a baritone guitar with a bunch of effect pedals through a stereo set of tube amplifiers plus one overdub of breathing, this unedited piece provides an adequate score for the transcendental character of “Innen“, filmed in a black padded cell of the Stasi, which Arthur Schmidt transferred from Berlin to another location in its original condition of 1981, the year of his own imprisonment, and meticulously rebuilt as part of coming to terms with one’s own experiences and dealing with the empathy of others.

MWM rough #2

This is the second part of the ongoing MWM rough – release series on MirrorWorldMusic that features unedited rough mixes of live sessions performed and recorded at the studio ZONE in Berlin. The aim is to keep and release the music in its purest form, including all its possible imperfections, so as not to lose the power and spirit of the original performance through any kind of artificial post-production.

The MWM rough and MWM live series are exclusively available as downloads at MWM bandcamp and later on as streaming on all preferred platforms as well as on occasional physical formats. By purchasing at MWM, you are directly supporting all involved artist.

Gvoon ‘Bloose’ by Arthur Schmidt

Schneider TM at MWM / www.schneidertm.net

PROMO: heythere@mirrorworldmusic.com

LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com

MWM live #2 : faust

Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MWM live ::: series :

faust

Border River (Live At Betonhalle) is a live interpretation of Border River, one of the pieces from the faust album „Daumenbruch“ that was initiated by Werner “Zappi” Diermaier during COVID-19 lockdown times in 2021 together with a shimmering cast of musicians including fellow Faust founding member Gunther Wüsthoff, members of Einstürzende Neubautenstadtfischflex, Schneider TM and others.

MWM live #2

This is the second part of the ongoing MWM live – release series on MirrorWorldMusic that features live recordings of diverse projects and bands from around the world. The aim is to keep and release the music in its purest form, including all its possible imperfections, so as not to lose the power and spirit of the original performance through any kind of artificial post-production.

MWM live and MWM rough, another series featuring instant recordings and mixes from the studio ZONE, are exclusively available as downloads at MirrorWorldMusic bandcamp and later on as streaming on all preferred platforms as well as on occasional physical formats.  By purchasing at MWM, you are directly supporting all involved artists

PROMO: heythere@mirrorworldmusic.com

LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com

Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MWM live ::: series :

The Shape of Minds to Come
feat. John Duncan / Chandra Shukla / Schneider TM / Scot Jenerik / Thomas Dimuzio

An exquisitely improvised, uninterrupted pilgrimage through the stations of the mind. Performed & recorded live during The Shape of Minds to Come Tour on May 7th 2023 at The Lab, San Francisco

Live onstage: Chandra Shukla playing sitar and effects. Scot Jenerik playing saz baglama and shortwave with effects. Schneider TM playing guitar, effects, Strega, Lyra 8, objects and vocals. John Duncan with vocals, objects and shortwave. + guest: Thomas Dimuzio playing Buchla 200e and processing.

MWM live #1

This is the second release of two ongoing release series on MirrorWorldMusic that feature recordings of live concerts from around the world (MWM live) as well as unedited rough mixes of live sessions performed and recorded at the studio ZONE in Berlin (MWM rough). The aim is to keep and release the music in its purest form, including all its possible imperfections, so as not to lose the power and spirit of the original performance through any kind of artificial post-production.

The MWM rough and MWM live series are exclusively available as downloads at MirrorWorldMusic bandcamp and later on as streaming on all preferred platforms as well as on occasional physical formats.  By purchasing at MWM, you are directly supporting all involved artists

PROMO: heythere@mirrorworldmusic.com

LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com

MWM rough #1 : krautfuzz

Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MWM rough ::: series :

krautfuzz
This trio started out playing improvisational fuzzkraut-ish sessions in November 2022 after Imari Kokubo (drums), Dirk Dresselhaus (guitar, voice), and Derek Shirley (bass) had unavailingly planned to hook up with each other individually for a couple of years.

As each of them is involved in an extended variety of music (Vladislav Delay Quartet, die ANGEL, Schneider TM, faust, Piratezombiedog, Monno, The Still, Hi- Speed Dubbing, etc.), the premise is to boil down stylistic concepts to their essence by playing loud, time-transcending music without a safety net and giving some extra attention to communication in-between each other as well as to the individual subconsciousness.

krautfuzz is embossed by an angular-futuristic tension, spanning from fuzzed-out neo-psych-rock to abstract, heavily processed minimalism, and is open at the fringes.

“Does anything really begin or end? What is time? A period of time. What does that mean? Re-create and re-visit, but time always moves forward. Never stopping. Always changing. Sound goes and goes and goes. This moment is a forward motion.” (Ilse Redeka).

Next live show: 23. March 2024 – 20/21CET – Urban Spree, Berlin

krautfuzz + iLan (live video) + special guest

Pre-sale tickets here !

video: ilan katin / music: krautfuzz

MWM rough #1

This is the first of two ongoing release series on MirrorWorldMusic that feature unedited rough mixes of live sessions performed and recorded at the studio ZONE in Berlin (MWM rough), as well as recordings of live concerts from around the world (MWM live). The aim is to keep and release the music in its purest form, including all its possible imperfections, so as not to lose the power and spirit of the original performance through any kind of artificial post-production, which can be understood as a statement against fear and current trends of exaggerated self-optimization.

The MWM rough and MWM live series are exclusively available as downloads at MWM bandcamp and later on as streaming on all preferred platforms as well as on occasional physical formats. By purchasing at MWM, you are directly supporting all involved artist.

krautfuzz at MWM

PROMO: heythere@mirrorworldmusic.com

LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com

New SCHNEIDER TM album EREIGNISHORIZONT out on 26th of May as 2xLP / 2xCD / DL via KARLRECORDS

RELEASE CONCERT: 30th June 2023 – 20:00h Schneider TM + special guests: Crys Cole (live) / Jazzcats (DJs) – ausland, Berlin, Germany / TICKETS

Presented by Jungle World & amSTARt

“The event horizon gives the black hole its size; behind it hides the singularity. And the more extended it is, the more massive the black hole is. But the event horizon is also invisible; if matter or light passes through it, there is no turning back.“(Prof. Dr. Michael Kramer, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie) 

EREIGNISHORIZONT is SCHNEIDER TM’s new and with a duration of over 80 minutes truly epic album: experimental guitar, technological innovations and excursions into musical territories beyond the usual.

Performed on (partly self-developed) electroacoustic guitars + effects through a stereo set of tube amps with sensibilities for the world of modular synthesis and a range of seemingly contrarian musical directions, the 8 tracks present transcendental micro- and macrotonal soundscapes and polyrhythms, a musical cosmology that appears to be located in a sort of idiosyncratic alternate or parallel universe where parameters are slightly shifted, which doesn’t necessarily mean something like ‘otherworldliness’ but certainly offer a view onto ‘reality‘ from a bunch of different angles.

EREIGNISHORIZONT sounds and feels like a soundtrack for a yet-to-be-made sci-fi movie and exposes the essence of Dresselhaus’ artistic approaches, crafted here with a more pared-down set-up, an awareness of advanced musical techniques, the physicality of sound, and an improvisational spirit that is based on the experience that things are strongest when they happen first.

The main tools on EREIGNISHORIZONT are two customized electroacoustic guitars:
# The “FireSchneiderTM“ has sound chambers featuring removable bakelite lids and piezo mics, that can be used as percussion tools, vocal mics, or filled with interesting sounding materials like screws, etc.
# The next step in the long-term collaboration between Schneider TM and Deimel Guitarworks is the “SPARK“: In addition to conventional magnetic and piezo pickups the guitar also has playable reverb springs, one of which is attached to the tremolo construction and can be tensioned. The different sound sources can be combined via a global selector switch and sent to an integrated electronic LesLee, which oscillates back and forth between the signals and is connected to CV In & Out sockets for integrating e.g. modular synthesizers via control voltage. The “SPARK” can not only be played acoustically, electrically and electronically, but as an electro-acoustic sound object it also offers possibilities for playing techniques that are not typical for guitars.

The sci-fi feel of EREIGNISHORIZONT is complemented by the artwork by SEBASTIAN MAYER who, just a few weeks before Dresselhaus contacted him, got the opportunity to work as a beta- tester with some of the first available AI based image generators (for which Mayer himself prefers the name „neural network image generator“ because there’s no „intelligence“ – yet – in these networks).

Dirk sent Sebastian some tracks of the new album with the note that he was thinking about this particular image when recording them. Mayer listened to his recordings and understood what inspired SCHNEIDER TM about these more-or-less artificial artworks: “there’s a crude weirdness to the image, it’s funny but at the same time a bit frightening, by topic and by style. It’s like an omen of what’s ahead of us in regards to AI – and not only about image generation but in a wider sense. AI will impact our society in ways we can not yet comprehend, and this image is a coarse yet deceptive harbinger for things that are yet to come – for better or worse.”

The Sound Projector: ” “Ereignishorizont” (the album) really does come across as a soundtrack for an ambitious and epic sci-fi film or television series; at nearly 90 minutes it’s more or less complete in itself as a background music work and all that’s needed is a script of equal if not more ambition in its plotting and vision of a future complex urban society with the technology to match. The man behind Schneider TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) can be proud of the work he has done here. “

Wanted: sci-fi film script with the ambition and complex vision of a futuristic dystopis to match “Ereignishorizont”

Extensive interview at Chain D.L.K.:

Schneider TM
Schneider TM at MWM / www.schneidertm.net
LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com: SCHNEIDER TM : EREIGNISHORIZONT

faust : “Daumenbruch”

New faust album “Daumenbruch” available as LP / CD / DL via EROTOTOX DECODINGS

RELEASE CONCERT: 13TH April 2023 – 20:00h

faust + Sunroof (Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones) + Chandra Shukla

Sonic Morgue @Betonhalle, Silent Green, Berlin, Germany / TICKETS

There are many “Fausts” in this world, twice as many as there are people in most cases. Yet with the intention of equaled strength is Zappi Diermaier and friendsʼ take on Faust, merely as faust. The lowercase spelling is an emphasis on the original concept of the faust that was truly a collective, free of ʻcapitalizedʼ superiority with a minimalistic intent by making sounds and music with endless improvisation and an unspoken trust in the development of carrying the sound to create something unique, extraordinary and visionary. The traditional approach was not just to make sounds with conventional instruments, but to also include the post-modern sounds of the industrial revolution. Instead of the signature cement mixer and power tools faust is famous for, this version includes many who are engaged in adding varied degrees of other ʻindustrialʼ motifs as ingredients. This time the cast of characters returns to eight members, one more than the original lineup was previously in the days of Wümme. Those members are Zappi W. Diermaier (Faust)  himself on drums, Elke Drapatz (monobeat original)  on drum effects, Gunther Wüsthoff (Faust)  on spieluhr (music box), Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM)  on bass and guitar, Andrew Unruh (Einstürzende Neubauten)  on metal percussion, Uwe Bastiansen (Stadtfisch Flex)  on guitar and samples, Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten)  on guitar and loops and Sonja Kosche  on self-made instruments, harp and ventilator. Every ʻvoiceʼ heard by each artist contributing to this incarnation of faust is heard clearly. Instead of an amassing miasmic gurgle as of previous, each artist comes through with distinct individual voices that allow the listener to distinguish what each Musician is sonically responsible for in an unintended symphonic fashion. Recording for ,,Daumenbruchʼʼ was done according to the fact that it wasn’t possible to play and record together live in the same room because of the pandemic situation, most of the overdubs were committed ‘blindly’ on top of previously recorded rough mixes of drums & bass which implemented the method of ‘chance’. Itʼs where primal instinct can transform into tasteful, calculated chemistry woven from absence, silence and negative space through unspoken means of communication.

faust at EROTOTOX
LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com

Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MirrorWorldMusic Archives ::: project :

This is a live improvisation of the drone & noise duo ANGEL (Ilpo Väisänen / Dirk Dresselhaus) together with the (later) Multi-Award winning Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir (Oscar, Grammy etc. for the original scores of Joker, Chernobyl etc.), which was performed in 2005 at CTM in Berlin a couple of months before they recorded their groundbreaking collaboration album KALMUKIA (Editions Mego 2007). It was originally released as CD by ORAL Records in 2006.

The new Schneider TM album The 8 Of Space is out now as LP / CD / Digital on Editions Mego.

Schneider TM is the multidimensional music project of Dirk Dresselhaus which has been operating since the mid 90’s. His latest opus is also his first for release for Editions Mego.

With an extensive catalogue under his belt, one may wonder where this one takes us? The 8 of Space orbits the realm of “pop” more overtly than the project has done for 14 years, residing in the line of works that temporarily ended with “Sko- da Mluvit“ from 2006. In the age of scattered streaming listening habits The 8 Of Space champions the classic album format with connected tracks that act like chapters adding up to what could be framed as an ‘audio-movie’. The ‘plot’ revolves around a post-dystopian landscape which posits the make up of reality in the future. Read more…

Schneider TM at MWM / www.schneidertm.net
LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com

Long version: Schneider TM feat. Lillevan – live @ Kesselhaus I berta.berlin
“iBot (With A Soul)” video clip by Edward Paul Quist / embryoroom
“Light & Grace” video clip by Niklas Goldbach
“Spiral” video clip by Olaf Boqwist
“Oh Life” video clip by Arved Schultze

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Schneider TM – Bingo Merch – Online Store

“The 8 Of Space” album, shirts & hoodies (dark silver on black) are available here now next to some selected items from the Schneider TM back catalogue…by buying here you support the beautiful (freelance-) people at Bingo Merch & the artists directly!

LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com

Landfrauenband” is a project by Maurice de Martin in cooperation with JugendKunstSchule Frankenberg and Sächsischer Landfrauenverband e.V..

The first “Landfrauenband” album “Impromptus on a Prepared Piano” documents the exploration of the possibilities of experimental sound production with the help of a grand piano, which was prepared with screws, iron springs and erasers by contemporary pianist Reinhold Friedl (zeitkratzer) during a workshop. The owners of the instrument had a panic attack when they found out what we were planning to do to their grand piano, but then gave their consent when they learned that such preparation – if carried out professionally – is considered “normal” playing practice in contemporary music and at the same time it would most probably be the first time in Western music history, that a group of women from the countryside would play such music on such a prepared instrument, i.e. an instrument that had almost certainly only come into contact with the 3 B’s (Bach, Brahms, Beethoven) and the like in this place. The pieces are “Instant Compositions“, none of the artists had ever played on a prepared grand piano before. The four pieces are “first takes” and were recorded in a time span of 1.5 hours.

Produced by Maurice de Martin (zeitkratzer); prepared Piano Supervision Reinhold Friedl (zeitkratzer)

Schneider TM : new video

Here is a new video clip by Fuchs & Beckett for the Schneider TM track “The 8 Of Space” feat. Kptmichigan from the album “The 8 Of Space“ (Editions Mego 2021).

Schneider TM – LIVE in Italy – December 2023:

13.12. Trenta Formiche – Rome

14.12. Auditorium Novecento – Napoli

15.12. Caracol – Pisa

16.12. Teatro Miela – Trieste

Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MirrorWorldMusic Archives ::: project :

Tuesday Weld were formed around 1991 by Michael Beckett (kptmichigan, Super Reverb, etc.), Dirk Kretz, Bob Schätzle, and Haggy. At the time, the guys were influenced by Dinosaur Jr., SeBADoh, Hüsker Dü, Superchunk, and so on. Then a Norwegian horde called Motorpsycho came along and made it clear that a broader sense of musical taste means better music. It was also around this time that the guys began to dabble in electronic music, post-rock, and krautrock. Starscene ’98, their second and last album, was released by in 1998 Supermodern and contains the single Less Complicated, whose brilliant and self-directed video clip ran in heavy rotation on the German music TV station Viva at the time.

Tuesday Weld at MWM

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