Label: Zeitkratzer

凄まじい内容、漆黒の音響を得意とする二者の共作が実現!!ケージやルシエ、ジェームス・テニーといった重鎮コンポーザーの名作リアライズから、灰野敬二氏とのコラボレーション音源数種を残しているドイツの超強者集団Zeitkratzer。このグループの創設者であり凄まじいピアノ録音を残すリーダーReinhold Friedlと、スウェーデンの老舗FylkingenやFirework Editionからの出版物で知られるエレクトロ・アコースティック作家Lars Akerlundの共演作。試聴の通りピアノが爆音ノイズを生み出す奇妙な装置と化し、アナログシンセサイザーと厳選されたデジタルツールよって狂気と恍惚の音塊へと昇華される。23分と31分という硬派な長尺編成も素晴らしい傑作。





Verve / Instinkt
For many years Reinhold Friedl and Lars Åkerlund have shared musical paths, meeting at international festivals and venues, sometimes playing with the same collaborators. They finally came together to record in Berlin during February 2024.

No preparation, preconceived ideas or concept was needed. The acoustic instrument and electronics merged right away and great music appeared - intense, complex, naturally clear and simply logical. Direct, undisguised primal forces: verve and instinct!

In Verve the first piano tone appears after more than fifteen minutes, by this point one could already suppose that no piano is present, rather a strange sound machine contributing to large noise waves. The piece eventually ends in an absurd reduction: a frantic piano tone juxtaposed with an enraptured humming - both disappearing in a bird like fluttering.

Instinkt, the second piece, explores a multitude of possibilities, culminating in what sounds like a genuine symphony for agricultural machinery. Reinhold Friedl elaborates the timbral possibilities of the contemporary piano to the extreme, almost turning it into an electronic sounding instrument, while Lars Åkerlund keeps a constant instrumental quality with his electronic approach - using an analogue synthesizer enhanced by precisely chosen digital tools. A piano becomes electronic, electronics a virtuoso instrument, and through this listening becomes an aesthetic pleasure - as if the music had ultimately invented itself.