Ein Anachronismus ist eine chronologische Inkonsistenz in einer Anordnung, im besonderen eine Gegenüberstellung von Personen, Ereignissen, Gegenständen oder Gewohnheiten aus unterschiedlichen Zeitabschnitten.

± Lars Ennsen
Die Klänge des in Berlin ansässigen Nicht Musikers Lars Ennsen (aka Growth, 1/2 des Improv Duos Nada und 1/3 der Black Metall Gruppe Sun Worship) sind ein Wald voller Zweideutigkeiten. An einem gegebenem Zeitpunkt erreicht er einen Zustand der Bewegung und Entwicklung, der zu langsam und zu subtil sein mag um bewusst wahrgenommen zu werden. Ein anderes mal erschließt sich der zufällig erscheinende organische Prozess und die Zusammenhänge die zu diesem Zustand führen. Ein weiteres mal könnte es schwer sein den Unterschied zu erkennen. Es ist ein flüchtiger Blick ins Innere, ein Zustand des seins und eine größtenteils improvisierte Darbietung, die sich in Begriffen wie minimal, ambient und drone mit einem Hang zur noisiegen Seite der Dinge klassifizieren lassen könnte.

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± Felix-Florian Tödtloff
Auf der unerbitterlichen Suche nach ernsthafter Schönheit im Klang, geht der in Berlin wohnende Musiker und Produzent Felix-Florian Tödtloff vielfache Wege. Ob Solo unter dem Spitznamen Sferics, wo er üppige Ambient Blöcke auf der E Gitarre kreiert oder in der Black Metal Gruppe Sun Worship wo er eine Wand aus atmosphärischem Lärm aufbaut, seine Musik zielt immer darauf ab die Zuhörer in einen meditativen Status zu versetzen. Seit kurzem tritt Tödtloff unter seinem richtigem Namen auf, experimentiert mit Tonband Collagen, Modularer Synthese und interaktiver Visualisierung um seinen musikalischen Ausdruck zu erweitern, während er den minimaoistischen Ansatz in seinem Aufbau beibehält.

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± Difficult Music
Unter vielen bekannt für die konsequent wandlungsfähige und erforschende Radio Sendung "Difficult Music for Difficult People”, gesendet auf dem offenen Radio Sender FSK aus Hamburg, teilt Difficult Music hier sein unglaubliches Wissen und extrem breites Interesse an Musik mit.

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______________________________________________ An anachronism is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of person(s), events, objects, or customs from different periods of time. ± Lars Ennsen The sounds of berlin based non-musician Lars Ennsen (aka Growth, 1/2 of the improv duo Nada, and 1/3 of the black metal group Sun Worship) are a forest of ambiguities. On a given occasion, he approaches a condition of movement and development which may be too slow and too subtle to consciously experience. On another given occasion, the seemingly random organic processes and relations which result in that condition are being explored. On a third given occasion it may be quite hard to tell the difference. It is an inward gaze, a state of being, and a largely improvised performance which may be classified in terms of minimal, ambient, and drone, with a leaning towards the noisier side of things. https://growthgrowth.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0kkrhF8cS0 ± Felix-Florian Tödtloff In a relentless quest for solemn beauty in sound, Berlin based musician and producer Felix-Florian Tödtloff takes multiple paths. Whether performing solo under the moniker Sferics, where he creates lush ambient pads on the electric guitar or in the black metal group Sun Worship, building a wall of atmospheric noise, his music always aims to push the listener towards a meditative state. Recently Tödtloff has started performing under his real name, experimenting with tape collages, modular synthesis, and interactive visuals to expand his musical expression, while maintaining a minimalist approach in his setup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcQXqplaT28 https://sferics.bandcamp.com/ ± Difficult Music Known amongst much for the consistently versatile and exploring radio show "Difficult Music for Difficult People" sent from Hambur open radio station, FSK (http://www.fsk-hh.org/). Difficult Music shares his incredible knowledge and extremely broad interests in music with us. door2000_ sounds2100_5 €

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Proper Ornaments is the project of James Hoare (Ultimate Painting, Veronica Falls) and Max Oscarnold (Toy, Pink Flames). The band germinated slowly from their friendship, which began when Max distracted James from shop-keeping, as his then girlfriend attempted to steal shoes. Max was freshly arrived in London from Buenos Aires; helped out with a plane ticket by Andrew Loog Oldham as it happens, to escape a drug-lead implosion of a previous band and a family member’s plan to have him sectioned. The chance meeting blossomed into an epicurean riot of luminous highs and cold, dismal crashes that conversely produced music that was very well ordered and faintly angelic. It was so much deeper and more refined, serious, simple and affecting than anything suggested by the bare facts - a guitar band in East London, ten years into the infancy of a millennium that had so far freighted those five words with plenty of horrendous mental associations.
They released a single on San Francisco’s Make a Mess and an early E.P. with London’s No Pain in Pop in 2011 – then a collection, ‘Waiting for the Summer‘ (LoRecordings) in 2013, which bore the influence of past UK guitar music – The Beatles, Felt, Durutti Column, Television Personalities, Teenage Fanclub – framed by West Coast psychedelia and sunshine pop. Tape recorded and unpretentious in all sorts of ways, it seemed bound to slide around the sides of a snow globe-like mainstream, into that ambivalent fate of being a bands’ band: Real Estate, Woods, Crystal Stilts, and Metromony solicited them for support slots.

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Omni - the band, not the hotel - are from the former home of the Braves: Atlanta. Playing lo-fi pop that channels the spectre of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Omni brings you back to an era where any sane person was reeling from the unfulfilled promise of the Space Age and Age of Aquarius bleeding into the looming threat of "Morning in America.” Omni distills the buzz and grit that snakes through the best of Television, Devo, and Pylon into surprisingly danceable, hook-laden slabs of raw, angular, sonic bliss. It’s still the summer of '78, and pushing the roots of rock & roll to its limits remains in vogue. "Deluxe" serves as a fresh reminder that rock music can work outside of blues rooted, formulaic progressions without playing it safe behind a wall of effects. Arty enough to impress record enthusiasts, yet melodically attractive enough to transcend to those who’ve never asked: “’Sister Midnight’ or ‘Red Money’?”

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Ganz klar verfolgte der japanische Trompeter Toshinori Kondo bislang im Verlauf seiner Karriere immer den Weg eines kompromisslosen Verfechters eines eigenen Sounds. Man denke nur an die Arbeiten mit Peter Brötzmann, Bill Laswell oder seiner eigenen Band IMA. Eine ganz besondere Spannung wurde immer dann erzeugt, wenn Kondo's kontemplatives Spiel mit den berserkerartigen Ausbrüchen seiner Partner kommunizierte.
Um Kontemplation geht es Toshinori Kondo auch in seinem seit mehreren Jahren verfolgten Projekt Blow The Earth. Hier begibt er sich mit seiner Trompete und einem kleinen elektronischen Equipment in abgelegene Gefilde unseres Erdballs, wie den peruanischen Anden, dem eisigen Alaska, der Negev Wüste oder den japanischen Alpen. Kondo's Methode ist dabei, durch Improvisation mit den ihn umgebenden Natursounds zu kommunizieren. So entsteht eine Musik, die nicht darauf ausgerichtet ist durch Konfrontation zu polarisieren, sondern eine Möglichkeit anbietet den Fokus auf unsere Welt zu hinterfragen.
Zu Toshinori Kondo's ersten Einflüssen gehören Dizzy Gillespie und Miles Davis. Mitte der 1970er Jahre ging der japanische Trompeter für einige Jahre nach New York, um mit Musikern der damaligen Downtown-Loft-Scene zu arbeiten, so mit John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Eugene Chadbourne, William Parker und Derek Bailey. 1979 trat er mit Chadbourne erstmals auf dem heute legendären Festival für Improvisation Total Music Meeting in Berlin auf. Anfang der 1980er Jahre ging Kondo nach Tokio zurück, gründete die erfolgreiche Jazz-Metal-Band IMA und nahm an Aufnahmen von Herbie Hancock, Ryuichi Sakamoto und Bill Laswell teil. Seit 1992 gehörte er zum Die-Like-A-Dog-Quartett Brötzmanns und später auch zu dessen Chicago-Tentett. Weitere Kooperationen und Plattenaufnahmen mit jungen Musikern wie DJ Krush, United Future Organization, der deutschen Jazzkantine und dem polnischen Gitarristen Barton Rage folgten. Ausserdem organisierte Kondo in Hiroshima das große Friedensfestival für den Dalai Lama.

Bei seinem Solo-Konzert mit Trompete und Electronics wird Toshinori Kondo Ausschnitte aus seinen aktuellen Soloalben und spontane Improvisationen spielen.

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The shape-shifting drone, modern classical, outrock and extreme metal collective, led by the enigmatic and visionary musician JR Robinson, came into chaotic life in 2006 with the modus operandi of performing and recording long pieces in museums, mausoleums and other impressive public spaces. Over three inimitable albums, released at a feverish pace (You’ve Always Meant So Much to Me, 2013; Then It All Came Down, 2014; Night of Your Ascension, 2015) JR proved himself to be a master collaborator - curating and orchestrating the talents of such varied underground luminaries as Jef Whitehead of Leviathan; Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten; David Yow of The Jesus Lizard; Chip King and Lee Buford of The Body; Marissa Nadler; Sanford Parker of Minsk; the free-improv cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm; Chris Brokaw of Codeine; and jazz composer Ken Vandermark.
Following the critical success of last year’s Night Of Your Ascension, which featured no less than 30 musicians, JR felt it was time to seek out new methods, processes and creative strategies. Focusing his energies on a smaller collective.
Wrekmeister Harmonies core is JR (vocals, guitar) and Esther Shaw (keyboards, piano, violin, vocals). They are joined by Godspeed You! Black Emperor musicians Thierry Amar on bass and contrabass; Sophie Trudeau on piano, violin and vocals; and Timothy Herzog on drums.

The title of the album originates from the text of If This Is A Man, Primo Levi’s meditation on the year the author spent as an inmate at Auschwitz. The Italian Jewish chemist and anti-fascist resistance fighter suggested in this seminal work that inhumanity comes about when things change slowly and people begin accepting things that they would normally find reprehensible. JR adds: “I wanted to sonically convey the idea of slow, creeping change. When I came up with the title I was thinking of how when daylight turns to night time it’s a very gradual process. You are lulled into watching this slow, peaceful sunset but then all of a sudden you look up and it’s dark.”
The album opens up with "Light Falls I: The Mantra" with JR intoning the phrases, “Stay in, go out, get sick, get well, light falls” over a swelling riff that features the albums only two guest musicians, singer songwriter Ryley Walker and Cooper Crain of Cave and Bitchin Bajas, solidifying the idea of slow change, easing the passage toward something cataclysmic - both sonically and spiritually.
The album builds inexorably towards the Muddy Waters referencing centrepiece, "Where Have You Been My Lovely Son?" which has “an incredibly personal” meaning for JR: “It is about the disintegration of a relationship that I had with my son’s mother. My son and I had a really intense, close relationship and as a result of this break up I’ve lost that connection. There has been a lot of difficulty and a lot of uncomfortable moments, so it was a personal message to my son.” And then finally, Wrekmeister Harmonies’ most focused album to date resolves in the tempestuous, apocalyptic "Some Were Saved Some Drowned."
From the striking eschatological sleeve art created by outsider artist and Rudimentary Peni founder Nick Blinko to the new and invigorating band format Wrekmeister Harmonies are ready to progress to the next stage of their journey.
John Doran, London, May 2016

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