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| | | ultra eczema (belgium) #ue 49 lp eric thielemans “a snare is a bell” long playing record - a snare is a bell (21:25)
| first new ultra eczema lp of 2008 ; a drum-roll-into-drone-into-noise concept piece from eric thielemans (comparable, in a way, to stockhausen’s revelation(s) upon speeding up polyrhythms to find harmonically related tones...) - played in one continuous take by the composer on solo snare drum “accompanied” by reverb & sound-elongation techniques ...
quite engaging, actually - one of those pieces that seems static until you needle-drop around a bit & hear the subtle gradation-changes ... i like it a lot (curious what will follow in this new “solo percussion” sub-series). dennis is kind of on auto-pilot regarding the design of this one; but the eye-straining insert is quite nice ... |
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ultra eczema 49 ••••• sts01 - eric thielemans; a snare is a bell lp
this is the first in a series of solo percussion lp's on ultra eczema, titled sts!
a meditative psychedelic experience is what i would like to call this, though i realise i make it sound like a silly zen blowout, and that's not what it feels like at all! when i first saw it live in a giant church in mechelen/belgium, i was yelling "this is the best show of the year". i thought there wouldn't be an end to it and didn't even feel a buildup to a more tense sound or a drone. there was a difference in resonating sound and it definately changed, but as with more constructive minimalists such as steve reich or maybe even terry riley, you can't tell when things change.
that experience got enlarged as well by the scenography he played in, a splendid eyetorturing construction, built especially for this piece by antwerp based sculputurist filip metten. on record it feels different of course, as you can skip the needle up and down to the end and back, you can hear an enormous tension and sound difference. though this piece is written for only a snare drum and a tiny bit of vocals (resonating with the snare drum) it sounds like either 20 people on a snaredrum, like if glen branca would invite 567 people playing the exact same snare roll, or like a choir, and by the end definately like the sound of a whitehouse lp; building up strongly to the point of abolute silence, which feels like a relief! this piece is based on a snare roll which changes 3 times.
live, this piece can go up to an hour or longer, on this record, it is one full side. the b side is a psychedelic etch!
eric thielemans is based in antwerp/belgium and has made percussive pieces for theatre, has played psychedelic guitar music with mauro pawlowski, spaced freemusc with sickboy and cassisini division and a ton load of great freejazz with andre goudbeek and peter jacquemyn.
this record is limited to 500 copies, has an insert and comes in a duo coloured psychic design by dennis tyfus. |
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