a r t i s t : Black To Comm
t i t l e : Alphabet 1968
d a t e : 2009
l a b e l : Type
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Nov/2009
t r a c k s : 10
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 61,8 MB
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Marc Richter (aka Black to Comm) is no newcomer to the
experimental music scene. As the figurehead of the
Hamburg-based Dekorder label, the musician and designer has
brought countless oddities to the attention of rabid music
fans in the last few years, but it is with his own
compositions that he has made the biggest splash. Releasing
for a plethora of labels including Digitalis, Trensmat and of
course his own imprint, he has pioneered a new, organic drone
sub-genre using tape loops, vintage organs and an
inexhaustible swamp of found sounds. With this latest album
however, it was RichterÆs intention to move away from the epic
drones he had made his own and into something more æclassicÆ.
The mission statement for æAlphabet 1968Æ was to write an
album of æsongsÆ for want of a better word. Short tracks which
represented genre points, the milestones which stuck in
RichterÆs mind when he thought back to his favourite records.
What we arrive at is an breathtaking ten track album which,
over the course of forty-five minutes, explores world music,
techno, noise, avant-garde, ambient music and even exotica.
Each track is linked with a loose thread of radio static or
environmental sound, dragging you through the album as if
tuning in to a stray broadcast or a particularly adventurous
mix.
Richter has pieced the album together from hours of recordings
made at his studio with home made gamelan, small instruments
and loops gathered from a collection of ancient vinyl and 78
records. The scope of the album is admirable but ignoring this
it is simply a shockingly arresting collection of experimental
oddities, with references ranging from Moondog to Basic
Channel by way of the Bernard Herrmann. ItÆs not hard to fall
in love with æAlphabet 1968Æ, far harder would be to place
exactly where the record should fit into your collection.
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01-Jonathan [06:43]
02-Forst [10:19]
03-Trapez [02:36]
04-Rauschen [02:22]
05-Musik fuer Alle [03:48]
06-Amateur [01:49]
07-Traum GmbH [01:45]
08-Houdini Rites [05:28]
09-Void [03:36]
10-Hotel Freund [04:30]
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42:56 min