Angel album Terra Null. (eMEGO 2014) feat. guest appearances by Hildur Gudnadottir & Lucio Capece is now available at MWM:
The fourth release by Angel for Editions Mego expands upon their singular combination of electronics, traditional instrumentation and extended technique.
The musical reduction & simplicity of Terra Null. is a beautiful and brooding statement on cultural darwinism. At a time when the dominance of capital and greed blanket our world in a singular destructive objective, Angel deploy a reductionist technique that opens a path towards a potential new reality. Slow moving drones peer from the cracks providing a fluid motion of dark beauty. This is Angel at their most abstract, their most static and the result is their most focussed work to date.
Exquisitely produced by the line up of Ilpo Väisänen (csg, oscillators, effects), and Dirk Dresselhaus (guitar, oscillators, effects) with guests Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello, voice) and Lucio Capece (bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, preparations) Terra Null. takes the listener on a journey from the acoustic dominant timbre’s of the opening ‘Naked Land’ crossing into the shadowy instrumental interplay of ‘Monolake’ and the microtonal explorations of ‘Colonialists’.
‘Quake’ concludes proceedings with an assault of drones, distortion and instrumental aggression, an expression of complete dissatisfaction that offers a means of reconsideration.
Terra Null. embraces radical long form statements of both musical and political matter.
The LOCUST FUDGE albums FLUSH (1993) & ROYAL FLUSH (1995) were re-released as beautiful double-LP package in December 2014 by KAPITÄN PLATTE !
The MirrorWorldMusic SoundCloud is now online to host works in progress, demos etc..
Please check here for some exclusive field recordings of balafon music from Lobi country that were made by Schneider TM during a research trip to Burkina Faso for the BALAFO project:
The track Begruessungsgeld by the popgroup DAS is a collaboration of Gabi Delgado (DAF), Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten, Automat) & Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM, Angel) for the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
video clip by Gabi Delgado
Out now: BOOTLEG. THE FIRST RECORD MADE BY BOOTS AND LEGS. Re-Composed by Schneider TM & AUTOMAT.
BOOTLEG is a limited 12″ vinyl with AUTOMAT (Jochen Arbeit, Achim Färber, Georg Zeitblom) and SCHNEIDER TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) turning scratched blank vinyls into music. This blank vinyl was taped to the floor during an AUTOMAT concert and the crowd danced on it. Played on turntables you only heard noise. Automat and Schneider TM then used the tracks to compose three unique tracks. BOOTLEG shows that you can turn dance into music and fans into musicians.
Limited 12” vinyl available at: Bureau B
Finally Out: REAL TIME [Reinhold Friedl & Dirk Dresselhaus] on BLUME.
3CD-Box with intense duo-soundworks by Dirk Dresselhaus aka Schneider TM and Reinhold Friedl, minimalistic & overwhelming !
Boomkat Review:
*** Rigid box containing 3 CDs with printed plastic dividers ***
Reinhold Friedl (zeitkratzer Ensemble) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Angel, Schneider TM) smack us sideways with this stunning 3CD boxset for Die Schachtel’s promising new sub-label, Blume. Approaching from divergent angles – Friedl uses entirely acoustic instrumentation, Dresselhaus uses electronics – they shape a mass of impurified prepared piano and sheet metal drones driven thru oscillators, spring reverb, modulators and pitch shifters to breathtaking effect. We’ve become very familiar with Friedl’s amazing solo LP, ‘Inside Piano’ over the last few years, and equally return to Dresselhaus’ Angel albums with Pan Sonic’s Ilpo Väisänen on a regular basis, and can safely say that this surpasses either project in terms of scale, focus and impact. Honestly, if you trust us or your instincts, this is an unmissable set for followers of heavy avant-garde noise composition. Can’t wait to fully immerse in this one…
