I gather this is getting a lot of Pitchfuck/blog love at the moment, but I couldn't care less about that. All I know is that a link to this Soundcloud page came up in my Twitter feed yesterday, and I've listened to nothing else today. I don't know what it is about music with a smacked-out kind of vibe and acres of space and air that's appealing to me right now, but this is definitely hitting the same sweet spot that late 70s Eno, Talk Talk, PCO and noodly Kraut stuff like Klaus Sch??lze, Tangerine Dream or Ash Ra Tempel/G??ttsching usually reach.
The gestation of it is kind of interesting - from the press release;
The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial B??sendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination.
Apparently the last time the word "ingemination" appeared in any dictionary was in the 1913 edition of Webster's. I got your "back to mono" right here, bitches.
This video is interesting, too, if only for the shots of the (now closed) DDR Radio Studios. Such a shame that there are fewer and fewer of these beautiful big rooms where people can record things like this.
[media]http://player.vimeo.com/video/27776579?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0[/media]
These guys are playing the Volksb??hne in Berlin next month. I'm there.
The gestation of it is kind of interesting - from the press release;
The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial B??sendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination.
Apparently the last time the word "ingemination" appeared in any dictionary was in the 1913 edition of Webster's. I got your "back to mono" right here, bitches.
This video is interesting, too, if only for the shots of the (now closed) DDR Radio Studios. Such a shame that there are fewer and fewer of these beautiful big rooms where people can record things like this.
[media]http://player.vimeo.com/video/27776579?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0[/media]
These guys are playing the Volksb??hne in Berlin next month. I'm there.
