HINTERZIMMER
Based in Bern, Switzerland and run by Roger Ziegler (of Herpes Ö Deluxe), Hinterzimmer Records takes care about experimental music since 2007. The roster includes Ghedalia Tazartes, Lubomyr Melnyk, Rhys Chatham and Ural Umbo.
"One of France's most idiosyncratic talents, Ghédalia Tazartès has since the mid-70's mined a sui generis universe of berserk intoning and wailing glossolalia vocalization, rough hewn tape collage and loose ethno-instrumental mulch, all elements frottaging each other ...
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"It is a stunning tour de force for his signature 2-piano work, as it takes us through a dramatic and emotional sequence in the life of an old and battered windmill - from the turning of its gears to its beautiful closing finale... It was begun in 2009 and took 3 years ...
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"The CD presents Moorefield's recent, alternately explosive and lyrical post-minimal works for his Bicontinental Pocket Orchestra, a group of luminaries from Europe and the U.S.: Vicky Chow (piano), Ian Ding (vibraphone, drums), Aleksander Gabrys (contrabass), Taylor ...
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"Ghost Time is a unique trio, fusing tastes of ambient and drone with spices of neo-folk and jazz into Dead Jazz. A true witch's stew where everything is of the moment. Recorded live and direct from the Ghost Time. The lineup is unusual too. English pocket trumpeter ...
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"PRSZR is PURE (Peter Votava) and HATI (Rafal Iwanski & Rafal Kolacki). PRSZR (pronounced pressure) combines the eerie, computer generated sound world of Austrian electronic music veteran PURE with the archaic, outer-worldly spaceyness of Polish duo HATI's percussion ...
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"Ghédalia Tazartès' music has always been a mystery. It switches from musique concrète to - existing or invented - ethnic music, from poetry to noise, or from loops and collages to sad and extremely beautiful tunes in a second, but it constantly is in flux and ...
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"Kiko C. Esseiva is a composer with Swiss and Spanish roots who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. He creates electroacoustic sound pieces that are, not unlike those of the French master of the genre Luc Ferrari, warm, non-academic and colourful, spreading a humanity and ...
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"Ghédalia Tazartès' music has always been a mystery. It switches from musique concrète to - existing or invented - ethnic music, from poetry to noise, or from loops and collages to sad and extremely beautiful tunes in a second, but it constantly is in flux and ...
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"Pendulum Nisum are Reto Mäder (Ural Umbo (with Steven Hess), Sum Of R, RM74) and Mike Reber (Herpes Ö DeLuxe) from Bern, Switzerland. The 8 pieces on their debut album are built on majestic organic drones and hypnotic, sinister melodies - a complex structured sound ...
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"Ural Umbo was formed in 2008 by Reto Mäder (Bern/Switzerland) and Steven Hess (Chicago/USA). Following their mystical, dark and haunting debut album on Utech Records, Ural Umbo return with their follow-up release, an even more dense, forward-thinking, nebulous post ...
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"First tape release for Hinterzimmer Records as well as for Herpes Ö DeLuxe, coming in time to a short tour celebrating their 15th year of existence. Ember consists of two side long tracks (both around 18 minutes). Absolument Pas is a complex, multi-part composition ...
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"In the summer of 2008 Rhys Chatham visited Bern for a Guitar Trio performance together with local musicians that the club had recruited for him. They rehearsed during the day and played a fabulous show that night. Rhys was blown away by the skills of the drummer and ...
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"The second full-length album from Rashomon (aka Guapo founding member Matt Thompson) follows 2007's The Ruined Map (Film Music Volume 1). Inspired by John Krish's scaremongering public information broadcast The Finishing Line (1977), the record is a sonic re-imagining ...
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"Kinit Her are triumvirate a realy of qliphotic vibrations. There three Wisconsinites holed up in basements and bedrooms to create an opus of eastern-European folk melodies and black metal washes emboidered with witches croons and crystalline sonic manipulation. A wide ...
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"For his new ambitious project "Mahlzeit" (german for "meal") Ralf Wehowsky teamed up with Hamburgs Transindustrial Toy Orchestra (TITO), a loose collective of people working in music and other art forms. Current members Peter Kastner, Ine Ophof and Jan Van Wissen ...
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