a r t i s t : Olaf Rupp
t i t l e : Scree
d a t e : 2002
l a b e l : grob
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Dec/2009
t r a c k s : 12
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 81,7 MB
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Scree is a record that reveals a musician at the height of his
creativity. Everything that follows will sound different, can
only sound different. Of course, Scree is the result of
radical improvisation (and also in this sense everything later
sounds different, since it is a matter of real-time
compositions that are bound up with the moment of performing
and are per se not repeatable).
Scree is also the result of years of hard work on his own
music. Born in Saarland, Germany in 1963, over 30 years a
guitarist, 15 an improviser, and 10 living in Berlin, Olaf
Rupp released his first regular solo CD, Life Science on FMP
just over two years ago. (In 1999 there was a solo CDr,
limited to 100 copies on GROB, September. A few copies have
turned up during an inventory and can be ordered via
head@churchofgob.com).
Life Science was the product of different recording sessions
and presented his playing on electric as well as acoustic
guitars. By contrast Scree, purely acoustic, is from one
mould. The path he tread with Life Science (or, if one wants,
with September) has come to an end with Scree. Seldom has one
heard guitar improvisation that is so thoroughly worked
through, so fast, so virtuous and dense and so well thought-
out-and if it's a matter of this-so withdrawn. Seldom has one
heard improvised music that is so well-rounded and thereby so
radically bound to the instant in which it is played.
(www.churchofgrob.com)
artist's website
(www.audiosemantics.de)
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01-a mass of debris, comprising [01:45]
02-loose fragments of rock that [04:00]
03-covers a steep, bare slope [06:27]
04-or is piled up in [04:13]
05-a conical or fan shaped [05:46]
06-mass at its foot. [07:06]
07-the particles are detached [09:04]
08-from the rock walls by the [07:35]
09-action of rain and frost, [04:09]
10-and they fall or slide downslope [06:58]
11-until they interlock with [02:29]
12-other fragments. [03:59]
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63:31 min