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
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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.
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This is the first Angel album, which was recorded in Berlin in 2000 at their second ever live appearance, curated by Ran Huber (amSTARt) as an audio-visual performance in conjunction with video works by Videogeist, and was originally released as a CD by BiP_HOp in 2002. It features improvisations by Ilpo Väisänen on typewriter, effects, and CD player and Dirk Dresselhaus on electric guitar, effects, and tube amp.
die Angel (previously ‘Angel’) began in 1999 sometime after a tour with Pan Sonic and Schneider TM but consists only of Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic, I-LP-O In Dub, I-LP-ON, Liima, Piiri ) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM, Locust Fudge, ASS). With Schneider residing in Berlin, Germany and Ilpo in Kuopio, Finland, the duo has managed to be around for some 22 years. They celebrated their 20th anniversary of being together as a group with a concert at Berlin’s Ballhaus OST with friends performing alongside of them including BJ Nilsen, Lucio Capece, Oren Ambarchi and Anthea Caddy (in place of Hildur Guðnadóttir who could not attend). With Ilpo on electronics (both modular and desktop as well as found objects and other sounds) and Dirk on guitar (not your usual guitar but a very experimental guitar of his own design plus a unique pedigree of effects), the two have toured the globe including a 2019 summer tour with Xambuca of North America plus many amazing bills with others. More or less frequently other die Angel collaborators include the dancer, performance artist and costume designer Tomoko Nakasato and Zappi of Faust. Their live performances are a spectacle that involves the use of visuals and live video in addition to it being one continuous performance without breaks or individual tracks but based on elements of improvisation and more often than not, non-verbal communication but absolutely and totally embedded with its sensibility in the subconscious and the elevated mind.
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
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This is a 6-track EP from 1997 containing “electrosonic dance version” reworks of previous LOCUST FUDGE material, which were produced together with Mario Thaler and Martin Gretschmann (The Notwist, Console, etc.) in 1996 at Uphon Studios, Weilheim; a cover version of The Notwist’s “Our Alien” featuring The Locust Fudge Band, recorded in Prague while the band was touring around Europe at the time; and a 4-track cassette home recording version of Schneider’s song “Green.”
von Özlem Özgül Dündar / Regie: Claudia Johanna Leist / Komposition: Schneider TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) / Dramaturgie: Gerrit Booms / Produktion: WDR / Länge: 53’28‘‘ / Erstsendung: 18.04.2020
Podcast / Download: https://ww.darstellendekuenste.de/id-2020-224.html
Das intensive Hörspiel wurde von der Deutschen Akademie der Darstellenden Künste zum Hörspiel des Jahres 2020 ernannt. Es erzählt vom Brandanschlag von Solingen 1993 und von den betroffenen Menschen. Wie lässt sich sowas erfassen?
Am 29. Mai 1993 kommen in Solingen fünf Menschen türkischer Abstammung bei einem Brandanschlag ums Leben. Eine von ihnen ist Gürsün İnce, die sich für ihre dreijährige Tochter opfert, als sie mit ihr aus dem Fenster springt. Das Hörspiel gibt ihr eine Stimme. Ihr und weiteren Frauen: die Mutter eines mutmaßlichen Täters, eine zweite Tote und eine Überlebende, sie alle kreisen in Gedanken um die Katastrophe und das Leben mit dem Schmerz. Der Fenstersprung, die Angst vor dem Feuer und das Schweigen, bis die Polizei eintrifft: Die Frauen bleiben in ihrem Erleben gefangen und suchen trotzdem nach Austausch, Begegnung und der Möglichkeit eines Gesprächs.
The new die ANGEL album “Utopien I” is out now as 180g LP / DL on Karlrecords !
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die ANGEL, the improvisational duo project of ILPO VÄISÄNEN (ex-PAN SONIC) & DIRK DRESSELHAUS aka SCHNEIDER TM, starts its 3rd decade of sonic explorations with the release of album #10 which bears the programmatic title “Utopien I”.
die ANGEL (or just ANGEL in the early days) was born in 1999 during a joint European tour of PAN SONIC and SCHNEIDER TM with the aim to use electronics, string instruments and effect loops to develop a sonic world that goes beyond fixed structures and clearly defined genres. Coming from different musical backgrounds proved quite an advantage for the duo as it meant that ANGEL had to find their particular modus operandi: communication through noise and action, instant composition, spirit.
Over the course of over 2 decades now, die ANGEL crafted a catalogue of 10 albums released on labels like EDITIONS MEGO or EDITION TELEMARK that were recordings of either the core duo or featured like-minded artists like cellist HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR, OREN AMBARCHI, LUCIO CAPECE or BJ NILSEN. die ANGEL delve deep into the microcosms of tones, shaping nuanced layers of abstract sound that integrate elements of Musique Concrète, Minimal Music, Industrial, Noise, Blues and Psychedelia, and yet bear the unmistakable die ANGEL signature.
“Utopien I” is not only the duo’s latest effort (feat. OREN AMBARCHI) but also a clear political call: in a world of a general decline, we need new ideas and approaches to design the future.
New video : die Angel “Epikouros”
Directed by Edward Quist / embryoroom
