Artist : Machinefabriek and Nils Frahm
Title : Perform 'Dauw'
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 01/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 02
Label : Dekorder
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 10:57 min
Size : 15,2 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Original Version by Machinefabriek 05:26
02.Piano Adaptation by Nils Frahm 05:31
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10:57 min
Side A recorded in Rotterdam, April 2008
Side B Recorded at Grunewaldkirche,
Berlin, April 2009
Original version taken from the album
Dauw (Dekorder 029)
Limited Edition : 300 ex.
From Boomkat:
*STRICTLY LIMITED TO 300 COPIES ONLY FOR
THE WORLD* My word we've been waiting
for this, in fact - for anything off
Machinefabriek's amazing 'Dauw' album to
appear on vinyl - and boy we're in luck
here. Not only does this gorgeous 7"
come with the title track of the album
(for our money the best track from by
far the best Machinefabriek release
ever) - it also features a sublime re-
work from man of the moment Nils Frahm!*
Machinefabriek joins forces with up-
and-coming pianist (and Peter Broderick
cohort) Nils Frahm for this latest
enterprise: a most welcome 7" release
for the title track from Rutger
Zuydervelt's outstanding Dauw album. On
the original recording, the prolific
Dutchman sets out a lulling network of
spindling acoustic guitar plucks and
minuscule electronic textures all
encapsulated within the gentlest of
computer processed arrangements. This
actually feels like one of the few
electronically aided guitar compositions
to really break free of the enduringly
familiar Fennesz model - there are
certainly references to the influential
Austrian's six-string treatments, but
the dominant feel here is far more
minimal and reclined. Early on, piano
chords bolster the meandering guitar
parts, imposing a more formal,
structural presence to the piece before
wiry electronics start to fizz and drone
in the background and a grand old Arvo
PΣrt-style choir arises out of nowhere.
From all of Machinefriek's hundreds of
tracks 'Dauw; really is the one of his
most jawdropping and atmospheric
recordings ever, it really is that good.
The Nils Frahm reinterpretation housed
on the B-side only reinforces 'Dauw's
contemplative beauty. All instruments
are configured for the piano, leaving an
especially effective coda in which Frahm
takes on the heavy melancholy of that
choral sequence, and renders it in a
manner redolent of the stately piano
solos on Zbigniew Preisner's soundtrack
to Kieslowski's The Double Life Of
VΘronique. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
(12k, Kning Disk, HΣpna) and limited to
just 300 copies - we cant tell you how
much we love this record. Machinefabriek
joins forces with up-and-coming pianist
(and Peter Broderick cohort) Nils Frahm
for this latest enterprise: a most
welcome 7" release for the title track
from Rutger Zuydervelt's outstanding
Dauw album. On the original recording,
the prolific Dutchman sets out a lulling
network of spindling acoustic guitar
plucks and minuscule electronic textures
all encapsulated within the gentlest of
computer processed arrangements. This
actually feels like one of the few
electronically aided guitar compositions
to really break free of the enduringly
familiar Fennesz model - there are
certainly references to the influential
Austrian's six-string treatments, but
the dominant feel here is far more
minimal and reclined. Early on, piano
chords bolster the meandering guitar
parts, imposing a more formal,
structural presence to the piece before
wiry electronics start to fizz and drone
in the background and a grand old Arvo
PΣrt-style choir arises out of nowhere.
This has to rank as one of Zuydervelt's
most compositionally successful and
atmospheric recordings to date, and the
Nils Frahm reinterpretation housed on
the B-side only reinforces 'Dauw's
contemplative beauty. All instruments
are configured for the piano, leaving an
especially effective coda in which Frahm
takes on the heavy melancholy of that
choral sequence, and renders it in a
manner redolent of the stately piano
solos on Zbigniew Preisner's soundtrack
to Kieslowski's The Double Life Of
VΘronique. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
(12k, Kning Disk, Haepna) and limited to
just 300 copies.
http://www.dekorder.com/