Artist : Matthias Thurow
Album : Melancholia
Year : 1988
Genre : Electronic
Source : CD
Label : Erdenklang
Catalog : 971168
Rls.Date : 2011-03-13
Bitrate : VBRkbps
Size : 79.72MB
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1. Take Your Shoes Off 7:25
2. A Little Bit of Something 7:06
3. May Be 10:52
4. World is a Stage 7:51
5. The Violinist 8:15
6. Sprinkle 5:45
7. Behind the Curtain 9:03
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56:17
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"I was primarily interested in the musical representation of the polarisation
which also determines the nature of melancholy. On the one hand sadness and
grief, on the other power and ecstacy. Both sides linked by an indescribable
beauty within the meaning of the phrase."
MELANCONIA MIA.
The musical elements which THUROW employs are just as diverse as his theme.
With his first LP "Cornucopia" (Erdenklang 942.162) he was still comparing
the music computer to a paint box which produced ideals that had to be
realised. Now, however, Thurow is already creating independent forms of
artistic syntheses. Using the music computer innovatively, but with
restraint, as the wish generator of new composition media, Thurow precisely
accords with the philosophy of the Erdenklang label.
To describe him as the representative of a "popular avantgarde" of electronic
instrumental music is just as correct as the realisation that descriptions of
this kind can be only mere approximations. In a different way this also
applies to a record which can, of course, capture only a part of that
artistic work. But back to the musical content of Thurow's new album.
It reflects his inward search, in which he discovers more than from looking
around him. And what he found rests in every one of us, whether recognised or
still hidden. Drawing attention to this point is the merit of this album.
Matthias Thurow: keyboards, computer- and soundprogramming, composition,
arrangement, production