Artist.......: Von Spar
Album........: Von Spar
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: May-18-2007
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. xaxapoya 22:22
02. dead voices in the temple of error 17:27
Runtime 39:49 min
Size 49,9 MB
Release Notes:
When Von Spar made their ciritcally acclaimed
entrance in the pop circuit in 2003 (e.g.
coverstory in Spex Magazine) they were regarded as
the German answer to the
Post-Punk/No-Wave-renaissance. But their debut was
more a clever parody about
eighties-style-hipster-bands. Three years later and
wiser the supergroup (with members of Urlaub in
Polen, Oliver Twist, Aggro Cologne) returns with an
uncompromising album that gets ahead of all
expectations and will surprise their audience and
critics who will be shocked. This is not a band
following the latest trend. Detached from the usual
style issues Von Spar have exorsized the Zeitgeist
and overtaken the discourse. There is no scheme.
Anything goes. Their new musical language is
inspired by seventies Krautrock taking lines of
flight to Fluxus art, Minimal Music and early
TripHop. Apart from ringtone-compatible hits Von
Spar reanimate the classical album-format. The two
20-minute long songs combine the spirit of
exploration from Can and Kraftwerk with the
conceptual aesthetics of Steve Reich and John Cage
and techniques of dark, psychedelic multi-layering
by Neurosis and Bohren & Der Club of Gore. All
references are permantly ruptured, adopted and
newly interweaved. With two new members the
five-headed pack recorded in the legendary Electric
Avenue Studio, Hamburg, with producer Tobias Levin
(Tocotronic, Blumfeld, Kante). Their new labelbase
Tomlab offers the congenial platform for this
unusual journey. The new album of Von Spar reclaims
music as a truthful place for concentration and
collective energy from which newness enters the
world.