ARTIST...: Moritz Von Oswald Trio
TITLE....: Fetch
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: Honest Jon's Records
CAT.NO...: HJRCD67
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 50:43 min
SIZE.....: 116,1 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Full Stereo
ENCODER..: FhG
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/06/23
WEBSITE..: http://www.bagpak.net
TRACKLIST
01) (17:31) Jam
02) (07:06) Dark
03) (11:56) Club
04) (14:10) Yangissa
The Moritz Von Oswald Trio operates at the bleeding edges where musical lineages
collide. Feeling for the shared heartbeat that pulses through dub, techno and jazz,
it seeks out points of contact before exploding them outward into hypnotic
explorations of rhythm, texture and tone. After two previous studio albums and one
live album through Honest Jon's, the Trio - Moritz von Oswald, Max Loderbauer (NSI /
Sun Electric) and Sasu Ripatti (Vladislav Delay / Luomo) - returns with Fetch, their
most fully-realized voyage yet into these in-between worlds.
At once umbilically connected to and completely distinct from all the musics that
they draw from, the Trio's subliminal musings on the connections between musical
forms are expressed by Fetch as a series of beguiling contradictions. Rigid vs.
fluid; playful vs. deadly serious; machine vs. human; sensual vs. austere: all of
these seemingly opposing forces are allowed to intermingle across four longform
tracks, sometimes played off against one another, occasionally brought together in
tense unison before springing apart once again. This is crackling, charged music -
electronica performed live, the players' neural impulses flowing into their
instruments. Fetch further cements the Moritz Von Oswald Trio's status as a unique
voice in modern electronic music - as supple, intuitive and alive as the most
exploratory of jazz.
Recorded in August 2011, Fetch finds von Oswald, Loderbauer and Ripatti in a darker
and more driving mood than on previous albums. Joined by ECM's Marc Muellbauer on
bass (from second album Horizontal Structures) and Tobias Freund (for the first time
since debut Vertical Ascent), to add live effects in real time, they laid down the
foundations swiftly, with the entire recording completed in around four hours. Later,
instrumental overdubs were added by Jonas Schoen (flute, bass clarinet, saxophone)
and trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky.
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