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Keith Fullerton Whitman - Schoner Flussengel
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Year :: 2004
Label :: Kranky
Cat No :: KRANK071
Genre :: Avantgarde
Tracks :: 07
Size :: 49,3 MB
Source :: Vinyl
Bitrate :: VBRKBps
Rel. Date :: 12/10/2004
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Schoner Flussengel is the follow up to Keith
Fullerton Whitman's Antithesis LP release from April,
2004. As was the case with Antithesis LP, this is a
partly archival, vinyl-only album released in a
limited pressing of 1,000 copies. Consisting of
material with a decidedly dark mood overall, the new
album embodies Whitman's considerable musical scope.
With tracks recorded using vocals, computer,
clarinet, synthesizer, record player, microphone,
bell and guitar the album traverses grittier and more
complex territory than its predecessors. The six
tracks veer from multifi drone to
computer-guitar-piano trio. The vcs3 that runs
through the two "Lixus'" tracks was recorded at Soma
in Chicago in 2001 with the aid of Casey Rice and
John McEntire. Packaged in a faux-dark metal album
jacket with suitably intricate gothic script,
Schoner Flussengel is a dip into a cold, stygian
stream that splashes and flows around the listener.
Keith Fullerton Whitman's musical interests have
taken a course towards solo experimentation of late.
Schoner Flussengel was begun as Whitman took a
lecturer position at Harvard and gained access to the
University's sound labs. As Whitman worked on his
Multiples album project for kranky, the material that
coalesced into Schoner Flussengel required a separate
album. The album title is German for beautiful river
angel.
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[01] Lixus (Version Analogique) [03:12]
[02] Bewusstseinserweiternd Tonaufnahme
(Einter & Zweiter Teile) [09:48]
[03] Gravicembalo col Piano e Forte [03:26]
[04] El Seny i La Rauxa [04:07]
[05] (Interlude) [00:41]
[06] Lixus (Version Numerique) [06:30]
[07] Weiter [05:17]
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