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WINDEREN, JANA - Heated: Live in Japan

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Touch Tone 36 Release Year: 2009 Note: recording of a performance (Tokyo Oct. 2008) with underwater / ocean recordings. 2 tracks, 27+ minutes playtime Price (incl. 19% VAT): €10.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Jana Winderen beweist laut Ausführungen des beiliegenden Promotextes hohes Geschick im Abnehmen submariner Klänge und Gletschergeräuschen. Der vorliegende kurzweilige Mitschnitt eines ihrer Konzerte ähnelt dennoch stark der Vorführung der rollenden, schmatzenden und leisen Töne ihrer bevorzugten Klanggebiete als einem Livekonzert mit dekonstruktiver Bearbeitung des Quellmaterials. Ähnlich einem DJ mischt Winderen Aufnahme über Aufnahme übereinander, gleicht die Frequenz an und setzt leise Fades zwischen den jeweiligen Bestandteilen. Der ebbende Fluss droniger Delayfrequenzen mag da noch via DSP umgesetzt worden sein, der Rest wirkt wie der bereinigte Wahnnehmungsklang eines Menschen, der seinen Kopf in eiskaltes Gletscherwasser steckt und dabei das Wasserrauschen der endlosen Unterwasserweiten ins Ohr gebrüllt bekommt. Der Effekt gleicht dabei durchaus dem einer recht großen Stereoweite, ähnlich dem Wassertropfen in der Regentonne, akustisch betrachtet. Jana Winderen greift dabei so kristallin in die reiche Klangfauna der sonst verborgenen Orte ein, als hätte sie die Aufnahmen nicht via Unterwassermikrophon aufgenommen sondern ein Audiomikroskop in den Fjord gehalten. Essentiell, spannend, ohne Frage." [Thorsten Soltau, AEMAG] "Limited edition CD - 2 tracks. Live performance at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 24th October 2008. Source material recorded with 2 x 8011 DPA hydrophones, 2 x DolphinEAR-PRO hydrophones and 2 x 4060 DPA microphones on a Sound Devices 744T recorder in Greenland, Iceland and Norway. Following Tetsuro Yasunaga's spoken word introduction, here unfolds Jana Winderen's blistering live set from her recent trip to Japan as part of 'Norwegian Music Today'. Her first CD, 'Heated' follows her only other release to date, a 7' vinyl limited edition, 'Surface Runoff', on Autofact [USA, 2008]. Improvising from recordings taken on field research trips, she forces the power of the hidden to the surface, making the unheard audible. Its a strange world down there; a world of which we know little, replete with its own instrumentation and orchestras. Tapping into these, Jana's vision encourages us to explore the fertility of the oceans..." [label info] "Following Nana April Jun in last week's Vital Weekly, Touch offers another release by someone we never heard of. Jana Winderen only released a 7" so far on Autofact, although she worked with Hauswolff's Freq_out and saw her field recordings used by Sigur Ros on their film 'Heima'. 'Heated' is a live recording made at Super Deluxe in Tokyo on 24th October 2008, containing field recordings made in Greenland, Iceland and Norway. Details of the equipment used are on the cover, and is perhaps of interest for specialists only, but it includes Hydrophones to record the world below the sea waves. I assume she uses various CDs with various field recordings, which she combines in an improvised way to create a piece of music, which in this case lasts twenty-six minutes (and on a separate track a spoken into by one Tetsuro Yasunaga). I must say the field recordings are absolute great. No doubt about that. Also the composition as such is very good. But what bothers me a bit is that this doesn't seem to stand out from much else that is done in this field. This could have been on And/Oar for instance or Alluvial. With a label like Touch one would assume an extra component, a conceptual angle or something like that, but its not the case. A great, gorgeous work no doubt, and certainly someone to look out for in the future." [FdW / Vital Weekly] www.touchmusic.org.uk