a r t i s t : Fennesz-Brandlmayr-Dafeldecker
t i t l e : Till the Old World's Blown Up and a New One Is Created
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Mosz (mosz 016)
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : 11/2008
t r a c k s : 04
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 62,5 MB
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*Ripper's note: This is ripped from the Japanese version. The
project (i.e. the 'band') appears to be called Till The Old
World's Blown Up And A New One Is Created but I tagged the
artist as the individual musicians involved to make things
cleaner. The images included aren't the best but the covers
are made of tracing paper so were difficult to scan. Still,
great music - enjoy!
The process: several improvisations are reworked into three
brief tracks, one edited by each member of the trio. Then
these pieces are mined for a few very short fragments. These,
in turn, form the core of a much longer piece, painstakingly
assembled around repeated motifs salvaged from the wreckage.
Very slowly - over four years of intermittent activity - a
long piece comes into being. As it gets longer more space and
silence enters the music. The trio's working method on "till
the old world's blown up ..." is one of sudden flash and
meltdown, followed by a gradual process of cellular division.
This inexorable metastatic activity builds a new organism with
a peculiar life of its own, far removed from its sources.
Ghostly twangs of Americana, Ligeti-esque glissandi, hesitant
electronic sputters, luminous vibraphone - all these and more
combine and recombine, separated by stretches of nothing at
all and driven by an urge to become ever more abstract. By the
end of the process the old world has gone for good.
Will Montgomery
http://www.mosz.org/
Till The Old World's Blown Up And A New One Is Created is the
name of the new group project created by Austrian musicians
Christian Fennesz, Martin Brandlmayr and Werner Dafeldecker.
These three are certainly no strangers to one another's work,
having all collaborated together under various improvisational
formats, most notably as Polwechsel. This album began life
with each member of the trio composing their own short piece
of music, edited from a number of improvised sessions. Once
these individual tracks had been completed, they in turn were
dissected - each one being stripped down to a few key
fragments which were then used as the building blocks for a
single long composition. This thirty-five minute work took the
group some four years of what they call "intermittent
activity", ultimately resulting in the incredibly abstract
final product, which constitutes the entirety of the first
volume on this double-disc release. Far from being a case of
tacking together the three constituent parts, this long-form
piece is littered with gaps, fissures and dismantled
interludes populated by only the slightest glimmers of
instrumentation, or at certain points, seemingly nothing at
all. Time seems to have a heaviness here, and it's easy to
become disorientated by the infinitesimally subtle,
labyrinthine network of fragments that seem to rise up and
fade from the mix. The three initial compositions are far more
readily digestible: the ghostly, disembodied jazz of 'Tau' is
sculpted with remarkable subtlety, with cymbal flourishes
rising and falling like tides against faintly melodic swells
of electronic tones. Taking on a slightly harsher, more drone
-based form is 'Jets', full of airy distortion and effulgent
ambience. The most overtly rhythmic work is 'Mi Son', which
unusually features a full backbone of drums and comparatively
unaffected guitar riffs. It's strange hearing guitar on a
Fennesz-related project that's been so laid so bare - it's
very out of character, but perhaps because of that it's all
the more intriguing. This album should help keep your interest
kindled for the forthcoming new Fennesz album on Touch,
representing a very different side to the musician's work -
one where he's not always in full editorial control of his own
performances. An engrossing collaborative experiment - highly
recommended.
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=141077
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Disc 1
01-Till the Old World's Blown Up and a New One Is Created [34:34]
Disc 2
01-Tau [04:49]
02-Jets [03:51]
03-Me Son [05:27]
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48:41 min