ARTIST...: Solarize
TITLE....: Nachtwerk (1991-1998)
YEAR.....: 2019
LABEL....: Bureau B
CAT.NO...: BB311
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 45:12
SIZE.....: 103.65 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2019/09/16
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Bp3uded6yqbzjsssnczfy4mnyl4
TRACKLIST
01) (07:04) Das Sein ⁿberlagert
02) (03:15) Mater
03) (02:40) Widmung
04) (03:15) Nicht mehr nicht
05) (05:08) Solarize
06) (04:09) Bierfiedler
07) (02:45) Lauter leise Kaiser
08) (07:43) Escape
09) (02:14) Tag der Mⁿdigkeit
10) (06:59) Sojourne
Since 1981, Wilfried Franzen and Thomas Gr÷tz have been developing their own version
of experimental pop music, which oscillates between song structures, noise, and
psychedelic trance. Bass and keyboards form the instrumental substructure of the
duoÆs compositions, which are enriched with guitars, violin, piano, electronic
percussions, and samples. After self-publishing various cassettes and cds,
"Nachtwerk" is the first official release of SOLARIZE, which presents selected pieces
from the years 1991 to 1998.
The two school friends started their musical collaboration in Papenburg in
northwestern Germany. A self-empowerment related to Punk and Post-Punk served as a
catalyst and encouraged them to develop their own musical cosmos. "We did not seek
for a solid stylistic concept. Occasionally we used various genres and musical trends
as inspiration. The typical result was not easily identifiable as New Wave, Trance,
Intelligent Dance Music, Krautrock, and so on."
A special approach to music, characterized by a non-musical perspective i.e. the
visual arts, has played an important role. This is almost inevitably a result of
their subsidiary activities, working and articulating as visual artists and art
historians.
Their creations made of sound emerged during their multi-day retreats were almost
never played again afterwards. "Everything that we got our hands on served as an
instrument, no matter whether we were able to play it or not û as long as it matched
our musical visions. The outcome was documented with simple tape recorders and later
with 4-track devices." By this way, SOLARIZE produced more than 250 songs and
instrumentals over a period of almost 20 years.
"Nachtwerk" brings together everything that makes up the unspecified stylistic, yet
consistent approach of SOLARIZE: bright and sunny melodies, creaky violin and e-bow
trips, seriously fiddled compositions, polyrhythmic dense ambient landscapes,
teaspoon-samples with interview sections, and dramatic piano excursuses.
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