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erstwhile (usa) #erstwhile 025 cd

burkhard stangl / dieb13 “eh” compact disc

  • eeeh   (7:17)
  • eehe   (9:11)
  • eehh   (3:15)
  • ehee   (6:59)
  • eheh   (4:37)
  • ehhe   (4:15)
  • ehhh   (8:34)
  • heee   (2:10)
  • heeh   (3:27)
  • hehe   (15:56)
erstwhile press release...
burkhard stangl: acoustic & electric guitars, electronic devices
dieb13: turntables, portable computer, portable gramophone

burkhard stangl and dieb13 are both integral members of the increasingly prominent viennese improvised music scene, coalescing around the activities of the durian and charhizma labels.

stangl explores the full range of the guitar, from quiet, melodic plucking to atonal walls of noisy drones. this range and adaptability has allowed him to become a ubiquitous presence on record over the past few years, in the collective projects polwechsel (recordings on erstwhile, durian and hat art), efzeg (grob, durian), and sssd (grob), in duos and trio with christof kurzmann and taku sugimoto (erstwhile, slub, musica genera), and solo (durian, future release on charhizma).

dieb13, who uses a range of names for performing including his real one, dieter kovacic, is a immensely skilled turntablist, as demonstrated by his solo disc (charhizma), and his recorded work with martin siewert, boris hauf, günter müller, jason kahn, werner dafeldecker, and uli fussenegger (durian, grob, for 4 ears).

stangl and dieb first met at a living room concert of efzeg in vienna in 1999. since then they have been continously collaborating in various groups, as well as both participating in billy roisz's videos with soundtrack works. eh documents stangl and dieb's initial work as a duo, and will be complemented by billy roisz's visuals in live situations.

eh was recorded by christoph amann in his studio in vienna (his third project for erstwhile, after schnee and wrapped islands) in december 2001. eh explores a constantly shifting tableau of guitar and electro-acoustic sound, utilizing a kaleidoscopic range of approaches, framed by lulling intro and outro pieces in which stangl's melodies both battle and meld with dieb's noisescapes. the instruments used, from viennese contraguitar and portable gramophone to electric guitar, electronics and computer, encompass over a century of musical history. the source material for the design comes from viennese artist billy roisz, utilizing extreme closeups of old shellac records to create the proper gritty ambience.

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erstwhile (usa) #erstwhile 023 cd

polwechsel / fennesz “wrapped islands” compact disc

  • framing 1   (12:22)
  • framing 2   (4:59)
  • framing 3   (7:51)
  • framing 4   (4:46)
  • framing 5   (8:94)
  • framing 6   (4:41)
  • framing 7   (7:22)
  • framing 8   (2:30)
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john butcher: tenor & soprano saxophone, feedback tenor on #2 and #6
werner dafeldecker: double bass, computer, acoustic guitar
christian fennesz:computer, acoustic guitar, synthesizer
michael moser: cello, computer
burkhard stangl: acoustic & electric guitar, electronics

the predominantly viennese quartet polwechsel have exhaustively explored the grey areas between composition and improvisation, electronic and acoustic, jazz and classical for much of the past decade. austrian christian fennesz, while initially a guitarist, is primarily known for his abrasive yet melodic laptop explorations on labels such as mego and touch. wrapped islands documents the much-anticipated first meeting of these two driving forces of contemporary music.

bassist werner dafeldecker and cellist michael moser co-founded polwechsel in 1993, joined by guitarist burkhard stangl and trombonist radu malfatti. the microscopic textures they explored were quite unusual at the time, and proved to be very influential on later waves of 'lower-case' and 'microsound' musicians. they released their self-titled debut disc on georg gräwe's influential random acoustics label in 1995 (later reissued on hat art). radu malfatti left the band in 1997 to concentrate exclusively on his own musical ideas, and was replaced by saxophonist john butcher, who has been a crucial part of the band ever since, on polwechsel 2 (hat art), polwechsel 3 (durian), and wrapped islands.

christian fennesz is possibly the most prominent of the current onslaught of laptop musicians. he burst onto the scene in 1995, with instrument, a record of deconstructed guitar compositions, and has since explored various combinations of guitar and laptop, melody and distortion, improvisation and postproduction on projects such as hotel parai.lel, plays, and endless summer (all on mego). he’s also an integral member of the all-star electronic orchestra mimeo and the laptop trio fennoberg.

in january of 2002, the five musicians gathered in christof amann's viennese studios for three days of recordings, from which wrapped islands was assembled. while the first three polwechsel releases almost exclusively contain compositions, wrapped islands is fully improvised. the warmth and depth of the music induces an illusory simplicity, with different details and passages emerging to the surface with each listen, all of which is superbly paralleled by friederike paetzold's eye-catching design.

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erstwhile (usa) #erstlive 003 cd
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burkhard stangl / christof kurzmann “erstlive 003” compact disc

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erstwhile press release...
burkhard stangl guitars, electronic devices, backing vocals
christof kurzmann g3, electronics, vocals

erstlive 003 is from the duo of burkhard stangl and christof kurzmann, titled 'schnee_live', the final show on the last night of amplify 2004: addition. stangl and kurzmann began working as a duo in late 1999, releasing schnee in 2000, and playing numerous concerts over the past four years throughout europe, the us, and asia. schnee_live documents how much their duo has changed since the initial recording of schnee, which was the first time they ever played together as a duo.

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musica genera (poland) #mg 007 cd

robert piotrowicz / burkhard stangl / anna zaradny “can’t illumination” compact disc

  • nothing address
  • time clue
  • close load
  • can't illumination
  • integer stay
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musica genera press release...
mg 007 : piotrowicz / stangl / zaradny
"can't illumination"

robert piotrowicz - guitar, synthetizer, devices
burkhard stangl - guitar, electronics
anna zaradny - alto sax, computer

recorded on 19.04.03 and 14.06.03 by christoph amman
in amman studios, vienna.
mixed and mastered by burkhard stangl.
very special thanks to christoph amman.

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musica genera (poland) #mg 002 cd

taku sugimoto / burkhard stangl / christof kurzmann “in tokyo. first concert • second take” compact disc

  • untitled (1) (26:52)
  • untitled (2) (22:40)
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musica genera press release...
mg 002 : sugimoto / stangl / kurzmann
"in tokyo. first concert - second take"

taku sugimoto plays: electric guitar and 6-string bass guitar
burkhard stangl plays: electric and acoustic guitars
christof kurzmann plays: g3 and clarinet

date: april 10, 2001
live at: off site, tokyo
recorded by: taku sugimoto and tetuzi akiyama
compositions by: sugimoto, stangl and kurzmann

much of what has been said, has been already said in perfect form. for today's artist nothing else remains than to do what seems to be the artist's task: to repeatedly express the topoi, which cover the spiritual, mental and emotional status of mankind to represent them as well as to make them visible. and to make clear, that the development of tools, devices, or technology in total (or productive strength, as marx called it) only shows one part of the human continuation. one of the elements mankind invented to represent itself as a whole - the artistic expression - is engraved on this cd. on their cd "live in tokyo. first concert, second take" the three musicians taku sugimoto, burkhard stangl and christof kurzmann develop a fine sonic network of touching commitment, leaving enough space for interpretation. the semantics of the language they knit seemlessly unfolds into music. the restraint melancholy which is resonant at all times and the disturbed gentleness, which is inherent in all of the sounds remind us of the romanian-french writer e.m.cioran, who said: "music, this system of seperations, leaves you thinking about physics, whose starting point would not be the seperated atoms, but tears".

taku sugimoto: a guitarist, who as a dialectically turned merzbow, celebrates the beautiful strength of silence and fragility. his fine guitar-sound penetrates every musical constellation with crystalline elegance.

burkhard stangl: a guitarist, who is driven by his sound-research toward quietness and abstraction, requests and underruns the perception of improvised music with his warm guitar sound.

christof kurzmann: a laptop player, who challenges his musical partners with electronics - almost already paradoxical - to even more quietnes and precision by placing his computer-generated sounds with an exact ear into an acoustic environment. textures appear that where unheard so far; an engagement of electronics with electromechanical and acoustic instruments.

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