KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF - DESARROI (CD)

"The art of Kammerflimmer Kollektief is deception. It is a persuasive and seductive art, resulting in incorrect assessments and doubtful perceptions. It is an art of disorientation and misdirection. In the Kollektief's current production Desarroi (disorientation), their 10th and wildest album, they do it again: Welcome to the Kammerflimmery! Right from first track, the Kollektief leaves its referential indicators. Heike Aumüller's free, unsentimental Harmonium played with a Sehnsucht (like a Free Jazz counterpart to Reggae producer and Melodica master Augustus Pablo), followed by Johannes Frisch's magic double-bass, creaking and free-wheeling. Shortly after a dash of Swedish Biker-Rock passion, that makes you forget the benedictions of modernity - for a moment at least - until we come to the end of Desarroi, where we are brought back into the blessings of concrete-solid realities. On Desarroi, in a fashion perhaps even more pronounced than on previous works, the Kollektief is working with a delicate, tender sensibility (And particularly delicate and disorienting is the singing of Heike Aumüller, which has never been heard like this on record before). If tenderness becomes maximally tender, it is also a maximality of radical tenderness. And because of this, Desarroi is possibly the Kollektief's most radical album to date." (label info)