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DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND - L'Opus CH

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Le Souffleur Release Year: 2009 Note: lim. 300, with poster; finally a more consumer-friendly priced release by the Dutch artist (once a member of INDRA KARMUKA!) who invented a unique musical style of his own! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €16.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Endlich eine erschwingliche LP vom Niederländer, der weiter an seinem ureigensten "Strangest Music of the World"-Projekt feilt, wieder verbinden sich fragmentierte Instrumentalklänge (diesmal mit Tuba und Zither-artigen Sounds) auf wundersame Weise, kurze Band-Echos geben ein nostalgisch-diffuses Flair, das klingt irgendwie schroff & total unwirklich, disharmonisch, kurios und fast schon witzig, und ist trotzdem von einer Art inneren Logik durchzogen... die B-Seite ist insgesamt flächiger & droniger... DIJKSTRA hat eine ganz eigene Klangästhetik erschaffen, die einmalig ist ! "Since 2003 Dutch painter, musician and sculptor Raymond Dijkstra has put out more than 40 releases on his Le Souffleur label, in a range of formats (LP, 10", 7", 5", and 3" vinyl), under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms (Ki Sync Pulse, Razoul Üzlü, Dadaphon). All are very limited art editions, whose sleeves feature his drawing and painting, and are priced accordingly. Dijkstra's lack of profile and insistence on working in isolation make it tempting to classify his work as a form of outsider art. He has certainly evolved an unusual and relatively unique approach. The few of his albums I've been able to hear sound like nothing else around - organ loops, metal scrapings and string scratchings are crafted through insistent repetition and crude manipulations into totally self-contained and obsessively insular soundworlds. L'opus Ch and De Fazant are his two most recent releases. The more substantial L'opus Ch serves up two sidelong tracks, both primitive improvisational collages, at times indistinguishable from each other. A small range of sounds is repeatedly distressed, forced into meandering, circular patterns, with little in the way of development or progression - unidentifiable tinny scrapings are filtered through echo and delay effects while what sound like a pump organ creakily chunters away in the background. Like much of Dijkstra's music, it's at once futile and profound." [Nick Cain / The Wire] "Perhaps a lengthy introduction, but please bear with me. On Friday 27 March 2009 Extrapool Nijmegen staged another one of their "Audiotoop" evenings. The idea of Audiotoop is that artists from various disciplines create a radio play especially composed for the evening of the performance. This Audiotoop saw a performance of Edward Ka-spel and Silverman (of the Legendary Pink Dots) who staged spoken word pieces with added soundscapes created by Silverman. Quite wonderful. After their performance ASRA was next; a collaboration between Timo van Luijk and Raymond Dijkstra. I was really looking forward to their performance as I hold both musicians in high esteem. The stage was scattered with a lot of small acoustic instruments, a piano and a tuba. Together they performed the best live set I have heard in a long time. Beautiful, spacious music with respect for all individual sounds and both performers. The reason for this introduction is the fact that that night I bought the new Raymond Dijkstra LP L'opus CH. Another reason is that when I came home and played the record the following day, something of the magic of that performance appeared to be also etched in the grooves of this record. I have all Raymond Dijkstra LP's so I know his music well. For un-initiated ears his records might sound "all the same", but that is not the case. His music carefully and gradually develops and Dijkstra documents this process in his records. Interestingly enough this works well. L'opus CH (attractively packed in a handmade cover; made of old newspaper fragments stuck to the cover) is a new step in Dijkstra's development. The instruments used on this album include piano and tuba amongst his more regular set up. More relaxed, more open than ever this is one of my favourite records from the past few months. Not just a record for those "in the know", but certainly one for everyone who appreciates beautiful music." [Freek Kinkelaar / Vital Weekly] www.le-souffleur.nl, www.myspace.com/raymonddijkstra2