ARTIST...: Jonas Reinhardt / Jⁿrgen Mⁿller
TITLE....: The Encyclopedia Of Civilizations Vol. 1: Egypt
YEAR.....: 2017
LABEL....: Abstrakce Records
CAT.NO...: ABST 003
GENRE....: Ambient
TIME.....: 41:27
SIZE.....: 95.05 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2020/08/14
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Bn35aspzaa2ccbhe72otvonz33e
TRACKLIST
01) (04:18) Jonas Reinhardt░-░Kushite Kings
02) (04:34) Jonas Reinhardt░-░Of Amunmose
03) (06:35) Jonas Reinhardt░-░Hathor's Trance
04) (05:27) Jonas Reinhardt░-░Zythus
05) (06:27) Jⁿrgen Mⁿller░-░Hyksos
06) (05:42) Jⁿrgen Mⁿller░-░Garden Of Nephthys
07) (05:09) Jⁿrgen Mⁿller░-░Thebes Triad
08) (03:15) Jⁿrgen Mⁿller░-░The Licorice Farmer
The LP is the first volume on ôThe Encyclopedia of Civilizationsô, a collection of
split LPÆs just started atAbstrakce where selected artists offer their own insight
into fascinating ancient cultures. In this volume music is inspired by ancient Egypt
and comes with a 10-page booklet with images and texts explaining historic facts. The
texts written by Juan Ruiz -an Spanish archeologist and researcher- in a half
scientific/half poetic way rounds the music and transports you to the Ancient Egypt
to get the whole listening experience. The careful design of the edition also helps:
Egyptian colors (sand, electric blue, gold) and a sleeve printed in the old way,
letterpressed with metal movable type as Gutemberg used to do it.
Jⁿrgen Mⁿller is the pseudonym previously used by Norm Chambers (aka Panabrite) for
the album ôScience of the seaö, presented as an archival find by Digitalis Recordings
in 2011. The album was supposed to be a reissue of early 80Æs songs recorded by a a
self-taught composer who was studying oceanic science and playing some music on his
houseboat, dreaming to sell the compositions to film and TV companies. Now Jⁿrgen
comes back and this time thereÆs no romantic misterious story to tell, just some
astonishing modular ambient songs influenced by library music, kosmische, minimalism
or new age. Songs that refer to artists such as Mort Garson or contemporaries as M.
Geddes Gengras or Jonathan Fitoussi.
Jonas Reinhardt is a Brooklyn based musician with releases in labels such as Not Not
Fun, Kranky, The great pop supplement, Further or VCO records. His side is also
influenced by kosmische but in a different code, more trippy and psychedelic. Deeper
and darker atmospheres that remind to musicians such as Klaus Schulze, Steve
Hauschildt or synthetist Steve Moore. Songs full of synth arpeggios and reverbered
sound waves that create Egyptian dream visions.
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JONAS RHEINHARDT/JURGEN MULLER The Encyclopedia of Civilizations Vol.1: Egypt LP
(Abstrakce Records, Spain, 2017)
Although the idea of a split album still perhaps appears slightly awkward, as a means
of promoting work by new or relatively obscure artists it can be contended their
function is more than justified. This particular release takes matters further by
being dedicated to ancient Egypt and selecting two artists to use this as a starting
point to their own ideas, complementing a 10pp booklet also included with photos and
notes by Spanish archeologist Juan Ruiz. A worthwhile concept whereby one can
hopefully expand their knowledge whilst listening.
Given a side each, and both utilising them to proffer four respective pieces, these
two electronic artists forge an agreeable union, too. Jonas Reinhardt, the artistic
pseudonym of this Brooklyn-based composer whose work has previously found a home on
Kranky amongst others, reimagines those worlds once courted by Klaus Schulze.
Throughout the course of profuse, undulating shimmers, kosmische gestures, gentle
chord sequences and murmuring tones, itÆs easy to envisage the documentary on
Egyptology this could soundtrack. By contrast, Jurgen Muller, the alias of SeattleÆs
Norm Chambers of Panabrite, glides into gentler realms afforded by clusters of keys,
loops and a sense of space not far removed from certain early 1970s minimalists most
of us already know and cherish.
Altogether, a highly accomplished melding of minds compounded further by the type of
packaging Independent Project Records made their name with. Quite startling.
(Richard Johnson û Adverse effect magazine)
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