a r t i s t : Enders Room
t i t l e : Random Guru
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : tuition
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : Apr/2008
t r a c k s : 10
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 64,8 MB
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Everything flows. Lots goes. And nevertheless only a little
runs. So we humans search. For experience, fulfillment,
enlightenment. And ask ourselves question after question.
Johannes Enders is well aware that the answers are often in
the details. "You can find your guru in lots of small things",
replies the forty-year-old giant, a self-described 'searcher
for meaning', when asked about the title of his fourth Enders
Room album: Random Guru.
ENDERS ROOM: RANDOM GURU
"After all, globalization is taking place on a spiritual level
as well. And in times of omnipresent hype, you just have to
wake up and start to appreciate things that superficially seem
small. Watching a frog catch a fly is much more fun for me
than trying the latest coffee blend in one of the many cities
that have been forced into conformity." It is clear that, for
all their love of detail, the eloquent musician and his
analogous electronic ensemble are concerned to offer a
critique in sound. But: "This album is above all a matter of
stocking stock, an indicator," he says. "Since such a
production is always a process of suffering as well, I
definitely did not want to make a record that just complains.
Enders Room was always wide open to the future. And versatile.
I just happen to be the kind of guy who can quickly change his
mind."
In the instrument and equipment den of 'Enders room' in
Weilheim, this family man - who has recently recorded an album
of church music, with Nils-Petter Molvaer, among others, who
just did another tour of the United States with Billy Hart,
and who is taking over a professorship in Leipzig in October -
has also created this new miracle in sound. Working alone
every night or together with musician friends such as the
sensational Ghanian singer Joy Frempong, the trumpeter and
flügelhorn player Micha Acher from the Notwist and his brother
Markus Acher on percussion, the prizewinning composer of film
music Gerd Baumann on guitar, or Flip Philipp on vibraphone,
with John Hollenbeck or Bastian Jütte on percussion and
Roberto Di Gioia at the piano. What happens in Enders Room is
difficult to grasp stylistically and musically unimaginable in
any case. In its unique way, it touches on indie rock and old
school hip-hop, jazz, church music, pop, punk, and Kraftwerk
but always remains impeccably impressive and as original as it
is expressive. No matter whether the words are choppy in the
somber 'Ana Vrin', which is Nirvana spelled backward, or in
the floatingly elegiac 'Sister Peace'. Whether the team is
barking at the enchanting 'Full Moon at Noon' in all its
choral splendor, or whether they are calling on us to wake up
in the wonderful pop ballad 'This Is Your Day' or sounding
like a mixture of Bird, the Animals, and Moondog in the
dramatic dance monster 'The Age of the Locusts'. It always
happens in a musical preview, in the successful experiment,
more faithful to the details and authentic than anything else.
The grooves are clearly more polished, perhaps more playful as
well, but without losing their drive or grime. "One important
criterion for me is always that I have be able to listen to
the record afterward," admits Johannes Enders. "The pieces
should develop, have as many dimensions as possible, and yet
still work in detail as well." Last but not least, the whole
thing, mixed and master by Guido Hieronymus in Munich, has to
sound good as well. Very good, in fact. But that too, as
Johannes Enders knows, is not just a question of taste but
also a matter of opinion. "Billy Hart once said: "Who cares
what it sounds like. The important thing is that the music is
good." I've always stuck to that." The best examples of that
are now on Random Guru, the new album by Enders Room. And when
the sextet goes on tour, starting in March 2008. Then a lot
goes. And a lot more runs.
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01-Ana Urin [05:08]
02-Sister Peace [03:48]
03-Random Guru [06:19]
04-Wankunku [07:12]
05-This Is Your Day [04:21]
06-Sattelite Babies [04:27]
07-Like Full Moon At Noon [05:00]
08-Jabali [06:52]
09-The Age Of The Locusts [04:19]
10-Sister Peace Reprise [03:10]
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50:36 min