a r t i s t : Guitar
t i t l e : Dealin with Signal and Noise
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Onitor
g e n r e : Lo-Fi
r l s. d a t e : May/2007
t r a c k s : 13
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 69,7 MB
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The Projetct Guitar is dedicated to the sound of the guitar.
Until now Lueckner released: ôSunkissedö (My Bloody Valentine-
Hommage on Morr Music, 2003), the Japan-only-album "Honeysky"
(Interpretation of Country guitars and Bluegrass Banjo
Hilibilly attacks, Third Ear 2004), "Saltykisses" (even more
shoegazer, Third Ear 2006) and "Tokyo" (with the sound of Koto
and Pipa guitars û a homage to Tokyo, onitor 2006).
And now "Dealin with Signal + Noise". Lueckner keeps on going
with his recently, new open working attitude. On 4 tracks of
the album he cooperates with the Japanese Singer Ayako
Akashiba (who also worked with him on all recent Guitar
albums), and on 3 tracks he worked with the American guitar
band Voyager One (Seattle). Its obvious what this means: With
his new album, Guitar is going back more in the direction of
psychdelic guitar-sound. Or better said: This is a Sea of
Sound. The Sound-Sea is wilder again, something really heavy û
but between the storm of noise and feedback you could always
hear the sirenes. But don┤t be afraid, the fishers around will
not be killed and nobody will get fixed to the boat. This
storm will end in a good way. And this message is coming from
someone who knows very well that life without storms is not
worth a penny.
But back to present. These words were sent to us directly from
the Guitar-Hauptquartier:
"This time I tried to find out what I do with Guitar. What is
possible with a project like Guitar nowadays. And the answers
I found are on the album. As a rockmusician I deal with
Signals (different impulses, chords, words and timings and
biographical feelings) and Noise (indifferentimpulses, chords,
words, nature-sounds and timings and really difficult
feelings, feelings I don┤t understand, feelings I considered
as Kitsch as I was still an unexperienced teen and twen who
was imagining his own world).
After all: You are not allowed to believe a rockdealer under
30 years, cause they produce and communicate irritating music
out of Signals (f.e. "she loves you - yeah yeah yeah") and
Noise (twΣng-zerr-distort-bingbong) - music which will bring
young people in the worst case to acts like suicide, cause
they are unable to know their own feelings and also to
dechiffre this sound. This means: Anybody who really
"understands" rockmusic is under 30 or disorientated or he/she
feels better buying sonic waves instead of flowers and gifts."
This said, Lueckner continues to say that it is impossible to
write something like that in an info. But touched from what I
heard, I have to ask: Why? Cause all the writers out there
will take it as pretentious? Cause it opens a far too deep
view into the artistical process of writing music? Cause the
people out there only care about the surface? Ah, fuck it, we
at onitor beliebe in you all, that's why we say: Lets give it
a try.
Which brings us back to Guitar and his words: "With technical
words like Signal/ Noise you are able to dechiffre the whole
rockmusic analog to Luhmanns Systemtheorie - open the view for
a new perspective, a perspective Thomas Pynchon would love.
But having this said you have to realize that from this
perspective Jimi Hendrix never made music, cause as a fresh
made Vietnam Veteran he changed his machine gun with an
electric guitar - just as half of the rockcommunity did, by
listening to Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Muse and Co at war. And
nobody is realizing. And peaceful Ex-Social-Workers like me,
Daniel Lanois and the electric Bob Dylan are still doing our
social work (instead of going to the military) and keep on
talking the people into stopping to go to the military and
touch guns."
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01-Flowers look up into the sky [03:40]
02-Sine waves [05:14]
03-Ballad of the tremoloser [07:51]
04-Just like honey [04:37]
05-Song without signal [02:25]
06-I kissed the dirt + she kissed her bobtail [03:40]
07-Watch the white bird [02:37]
08-Guitardelays [01:08]
09-Here [04:09]
10-Live at Hotel Palestine [03:28]
11-What is love? [05:17]
12-Guitardelays 2 [00:36]
13-Sign waves [02:45]
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47:27 min