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previous artist: wire		there are 2 titles featuring paul wirkus in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: bruce wise

$14.96

new to stock as of
june 22nd, 2007

threads:
minimalism-drones
electro-acoustic-composition

quecksilber (germany) #qs 04 cd

paul wirkus “inteletto d’amore” compact disc

wlot (5:36)
blask (4:11)
physikerin (7:11)
inteletto d'amore (4:31)
fascism (5:04)
aldrin (4:19)
breakfast dance (7:03)
wylot (3:49)

quecksilber press release...

artist: paul wirkus
title: inteletto d'amore
format: cd
cat. #: quecksilber 4
release date: 12.01.04

paul wirkus is a drummer from poland who has been playing jazz and improvised music for quite some time. during the '80s he played in the well-known polish punk band karcer, by the end of the '90s he participated in a post-rock project by the name of mapa (you might remember the article about them in the wire magazine).

all this information paul wirkus does not judge as important, and indeed, to approach the music on his new solo album, it really isn't. what is important is the fact that this cd – the music on which could broadly be described as "minimal electronica" – is paul's third release under his own name. the first was a cassette by the title of "echo" on gusstaff records (which also saw a release on cd-r, albeit limited to 50 copies). this first solo-outing was followed by the cd "mimikry" on the same label.

this time, he didn't want to be too experimental and just rely on the powers of combination of the work itself. the music on this release was created live with several minidisc-players hooked up to effects instead of, as one might think, by editing processes done with computers. thus the tracks have a warmer, more organic character than most other electro-acoustic music. accidents, coincidences, minute shifts and "aural snap shots" characterise this music. in contrast to earlier solo-outings, not only samples of strings and piano and white noise are to be heard, but also generated analogue sounds, fragmentary melodies and even vocals. one of the tracks on which he sings is called 'blask' which roughly translates to 'shimmer', a word that characterises his music very well. paul is primarily concerned with the sound of the voice itself, his lyrics are more or less "open". searching and finding. sometimes, he says, it takes some time to realise that you've already got what you want.

$14.96

back in stock as of
october 1st, 2007

first in stock on
august 9th, 2007

threads:
contemporary-classical
electro-acoustic-composition

staubgold (germany) #staub 071 cd

paul wirkus “déformation professionnelle” compact disc

view finder (6:16)
kocham (4:47)
valore energetico (5:55)
dog after flight (4:20)
nie kocham (3:05)
exoten (2:19)
déformation professionnelle (3:41)
1964 (4:18)
erineru (3:27)
terres fortes (7:38)

staubgold press release...

staubgold 71 - paul wirkus - "déformation professionnelle" cd

when paul wirkus' previous album "inteletto d'amore" came out on the quecksilber label two years ago, for the wire magazine it was the most engaging and fully formed work in the field of glitchology to that date.

"what makes wirkus such a master is his ability to show enough of the source material to allow the listener to follow the narrative journey of its processing, and to fit the digital shards and splinters which result into the music's total perspective", keith moliné wrote. "he never once falls into the trap of believing that it's only in this digi-scree that the art happens."

all this can also easily be said about the polish musician's and cologne resident's new work "déformation professionnelle". but that's just half the truth. wirkus has gone a big step further. the glitch still forms the basis, but the result is much more song-structured than before, further emphasizing this sound artist's unique narrative qualities. there's hardly any programming here, with most of the tracks directly recorded live onto dat without overdubs. melody has become the main focus.

wirkus' background as an improvising percussionist still informs the pointillist perfection of his output, developed through a series of solo albums and extremely varied collaborations with barbara morgenstern and stefan schneider (mapstation) as september collective and the free jazz trio with kammerflimmer kollektief's johannes frisch and mikolaj trzaska. his previous musical history includes performances with polish punk group karcer and late '90s post-rock group mapa, which may account for his favouring a live, lo-fi approach to recording.

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