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From: Thomas Morr <info@morrmusic.com>
To: info morr #1 <info@morrmusic.com>
Sent: November 14, 2000 3:38:11 PM GMT
Subject: >>> two new releases on morr music
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artist: tied & tickled trio
titel: ea1 ea2 rmx
cat.no.: morr music 014
format: lp/cd
date: 06.11.2000
? tracklisting:
1 - opiate 2 - christof kurzmann 3 - max ernst 4 - console 5 - wechsel
garland 6 - max ernst 7 - kandis 8 - gustavo lamas
? tied & tickled trio:
since the mid-90s more and more boundaries between rock, electronica, and
jazz have been broken down. the tied + tickled trio is known for pushing
genre mix-ups even a bit further. combining sampling and editing techniques
with traditional (collective) improvising, this band works like a strong but
sophisticated machine. several layers of soundscapes and (programmed as well
as drum stick driven) beat patterns are created for elaborate jazz saxophone
tunes to surf on top of them. the tenor sax provides an edgy element that
typical post-rock outfits lack in their featureless instrumental crawl
through wide spread sound textures.
the tied & tickled "trio" consists of more than three musicians. there are
six permanent members. apart from the acclaimed jazz saxophonist johannes
enders, who comes from a rather academical background, those people can be
seen as the core group of a weilheim/germany based music scene, which in the
course of the last decade has established a rich and promising
diy-avantgarde. bands like the notwist, village of savoonga, potawatomi,
console or loopspool, to name but a few, worked out very individual
approaches to indie-rock, noise, jazz and electronics.
when the tied & tickled trio's first album appeared on kollaps/payola three
years ago, it coincided with a general atmosphere of open-mindedness. back
then, more and more people had started to be interested in all kinds of
musical styles and genres and their ears tended to cope with all sorts of
strange and abstract noises.
? ea1 ea2 rmx
usually a remix results from rather extended editing sessions, but in the
end it can be compared with an improvised version of an "original" track,
whose elements, structures and textures it re-works and re-uses more or less
detailedly.
as the tied & tickled trio is very much involved in jazz aesthetics and
improvising techniques, a remix compilation seems to fit extremely well in
the band's discography.
"ea1 ea2" was released in 1999. now several producers were asked for a
reinterpretation of the material. confronted with the density of the
original tracks, they had no choice but either translating the complexities
of the collective powers of concentration into complexities of loop layers,
or simply concentrating on and pointing out single elements.
? the remixing artists and their remixes
1 - opiate
(a project of thomas knak, who releases on april records (copenhagen) and
also runs his own label, hobby industries)
a couple of broken beats and one or two piano chords are enough to make
oscillating track abstractions and pop qualities look like the most leisure
occupation.
2 - christof kurzmann
(improviser and laptop musician from vienna, member of orchester 33 1/3,
runs the charhizma label, ...)
hypnotical loop layers of expressive saxophones, percussions, sax escapades,
clavinets, sax outbursts, piano runs .... repetitive structures are urging
ahead.
3 - max.ernst
(thomas brinkmann is known for mixing his techno with theoretical
discourse.)
the tied + tickled trio and minimal techno. a straight groove cuts
vibraphone slices and wind player fragments for motorised organisms. hooting
ears. pupils give little piano concerts.
4 - console
martin "14 zero zero" gretschmann puts the tied + tickled trio in a train on
electroid tracks. dazed, half opended eyes. the landscape behind the window
purrs rhythmically, crackles, chirps and hums.
5 - wechsel garland
(j?rg follert releases on karaoke kalk label (cologne) under names as
wunder, saucer,...)
just listen to those vibraphone melodies somewhere in the middle of the
track to get overwhelmed....
6 - max.ernst
the straight bass drum again. buttery grooves with spasmic sample
interferences.
7 - kandis
(jens massel a.k.a. senking a.k.a. fumble releases on karaoke kalk and
raster noton)
club-life as a shade of memory. the tied + tickled trio material is covered
by a melancholic haze. as if the music was filmed with soft-focusing lenses.
8 - gustavo lamas
(artist from buenos aires. released a 12" and a cd on traum records
(cologne), which belongs to the kompakt label family)
discreet allusions of exquisitely blurred sample left-overs. slumberland
grooves.
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artist: wechsel garland
titel: s/t
cat.no.: morr music 016
format: lp/cd
date: 04.12.2000
? tracklisting
1 Falter 2 Komm? 3 Der Vorwand 4 Gro?e Erwartungen 5 Wie Insekten 6 Staub im
Licht 7 Wirklicher 8 Wie Also? 9 Ohne Stern 10 Viertel des Wegs
? info
J?rg Follert was Wunder, now he is Wechsel Garland. Great expectations?
("Gro?e Erwartungen") One can easily trace the atmospheric relationship
between the two projects ? the synthesis of lightness and deep melancholy.
A combination that is nearly impossible. How then? ("Wie Also?") Like an
aeroplane a butterfly ("Falter") glides through the valley of deep sounds in
the beginning, only to take a rest between melodic-percussive patterns made
of minor scales later on. In a more accelerated and abstract way Steve Reich
achieved that before, but here the music is much slower and far more
intimate. It says: Come! ("Komm") There! ? softly pointing at YOU with its
forefinger, deep inside your body there?s a resonance. That?s the place
where the floating and ringing sounds of the marimba, the Fender Rhodes
piano or the xylophone can vibrate. Their echos will remain. Like insects
("Wie Insekten") bass sounds buzz, like dust in the light (?Staub im Licht")
flutes, Hammond B3 and melotrone cover a soundscape that can be overlooked
from any perspective. A peculiar idyll. With no star ("Ohne Stern") in the
sky, nameless, removing, but even more real ("Wirklicher"): At least Wechsel
Garland?s music isn?t based on samples anymore as with Wunder. There?s no
driving beats, but it?s all rhythmic. Can you dance to it? Originally the
music was composed due to an order from choreographer Gabrielle Staiger and
had its premi?re under the title "This Very Moment" with the Arazzo dance
ballet at the Brotfabrik, Bonn, in February 2000. By later extending the
tracks, adding important details and inventing ingenious songtitles the
debut of Wechsel Garland was finally born. It?s music you?ll find between
the shelves in record stores; music that yet has to create its listeners ?
and that is only a small step along the way ("Viertel des Weges")?
O.K., lo spazio inverso, Cologne, 2000
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morr music
c/o thomas morr
prenzlauer allee 216
10405 berlin
fon 0049-30-44052699
fax 0049-30-44044791
mobil 0049-177-8510461
info@morrmusic.com
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