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UHLIG, MIRKO - Supper

Format: CD-R

Label & Cat.Number: AFE Records AFE112lcd

Release Year: 2008

Note: new work of ex AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPF, lim. 100 professional artwork

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"This new release by Mirko Uhlig is a sort of 'conceptual reference album', dealing with music Uhlig heard in the past. But which record it is? Hard to tell. 'Old Clouds' anyone? Uhlig has become one of the more interesting sound artists from Germany. His first main work, the self-released 'VIVMM' CDR (this year to be re-issued on LP I believe) was an exercise in drone based music, but he also dabbled with noise, and with this new album he expands his horizon a bit further. The main backbone is ambience and drones, but there is also bits of guitar music popping up from the world of folk. It seems to me that the main thing here is generated from processed guitars anyway. Uhlig creates highly atmospheric music, but avoids the pitfalls of regular drone music. He knows how to add surprise elements, interesting changes and sudden moves, and lifts his music out of ordinary and do something that is at large not a new thing, but surely is new exciting enough. Uhlig doesn't produce that many works but when he does, its a great one." [FdW / Vital Weekly]

"Mirko Uhlig (*1981 in Aachen, Germany) is a German musician and producer in the contemporary field of drone and minimal ambient music, and co-founder of Ex Ovo Records.
He first appeared with surreal sound collages and musique concrète-techniques under the moniker Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf (catching eels with a horse's head) around 2004. After releasing four albums and some EPs (on Aal, Einzeleinheit, Taâlem, Mystery Sea and Drone Records) Uhlig decided to release his now much more minimalistic and serene works under a less delusive name. Uhlig's music is inspired by pioneers of drone and minimalistic music such as La Monte Young, early Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, David Lynch, William Basinski and current Hafler Trio; echoing the blurred distance of a late Turner painting. Mirko Uhlig currently lives in Bonn, Germany. Here is a description of "Supper" according to his own words: Horizon's old clouds! This is what I call a conceptual reference album. Not that it puts up any standards in some sort or being a reference for whatever or whoever, no - it simply deals with references of my listening past/present.
"Supper" can be seen (and maybe heard) as a tribute to a wonderful album that inspired me when I was ten/eleven and still does - especially the last track. When you have a closer look at the booklet, I think the traces are obvious enough - you'll know what record I'm talking about. So it fits perfectly that Andrea releases my music on Afe Records. Without his fellow countrymen the young Mirko wouldn't have had a glimpse of a chance of doing the lover's leap at all. So a very big "Thank You!" to him and his enthusiasm.
1,2,3 and a step into the bright light of a schizophrenic night. Although this was meant to be a record-tribute, the climax/dynamics on "Supper" are a little bit different and even strange to me. But somehow it's circulating in a fine way. Closing the regular album with "Old Clouds" makes sense to me, because the used field recordings and guitar dilettantisms date back eight years ago when I started recording my very diffuse musical ideas and song catastrophies on cheap cassettes with a much cheaper equipment. The hidden track is so shy that it even hides a number and a title. Some small sheep-folk-ambient for putting down the lights and licking dew from the meadows.
P.S.: Thanks to Marcus Obst for sharing organ improvisations. Some of that original music found its way on the forthcoming Ex Ovo issue "Cosmic Tapes". A tiny miniature of these recordings is the backbone of "My Child Goes To The Surf". And yes, you're right: The vinyl crackling really was sampled from the ending grooves of my vinyl copy of CAS 1058. As sure as black eggs is black eggs. Everything's fine and weathered through when it ends with a baa!" [label info]

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