KASSEL JAEGER — Fernweh
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Composed & performed by Kassel Jaeger in Paris & everywhere. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi in Oreno & everywhere. For Eléonore, here & now.
Numbered edition of 280 copies. Transparent vinyl (cut at SST), silver printed cover.
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" 'Fernweh' sounds like a title chosen by Asmus Tietchens, and probably indicates a longing to be somewhere else. It's a new record by Kassel Jaeger of whom I already heard some pretty interesting works. He works at the INA/GRM studios in Paris, and no doubt has a lot of the same techniques as his fellow peers working there, but he comes up with different results. No doubt, again, the input here is all about field recordings, but the outcome is not glissandi working up and down the scales, but a great, fine woven pattern of sustaining sounds. Many layers of processed field recordings work alongside each other and some of the unprocessed field recordings are woven in. That's the main thing of 'Fernweh 1'. In 'Fernweh 2' it seems that the fundament of the piece is rather electronic sounds, like those small synthesizers that you see a lot these days, which are gradually altered and changed over the course of this side of the record. It sounds perhaps a bit like the older Asmus Tietchens, but even more it reminds me of some of the work by Robert Hampson, also known as Main. This is drone like, ambient, atmospheric, isolationist even, and maybe also musique concrete, melting together in short repeating loops. A fine mix of the best of things, and while not for his unique style - nothing here that we may not have heard anywhere else - this is some excellent music. Probably the best release I heard from him so far." [FdW/Vital Weekly]
Numbered edition of 280 copies. Transparent vinyl (cut at SST), silver printed cover.
www.senufoeditions.com
" 'Fernweh' sounds like a title chosen by Asmus Tietchens, and probably indicates a longing to be somewhere else. It's a new record by Kassel Jaeger of whom I already heard some pretty interesting works. He works at the INA/GRM studios in Paris, and no doubt has a lot of the same techniques as his fellow peers working there, but he comes up with different results. No doubt, again, the input here is all about field recordings, but the outcome is not glissandi working up and down the scales, but a great, fine woven pattern of sustaining sounds. Many layers of processed field recordings work alongside each other and some of the unprocessed field recordings are woven in. That's the main thing of 'Fernweh 1'. In 'Fernweh 2' it seems that the fundament of the piece is rather electronic sounds, like those small synthesizers that you see a lot these days, which are gradually altered and changed over the course of this side of the record. It sounds perhaps a bit like the older Asmus Tietchens, but even more it reminds me of some of the work by Robert Hampson, also known as Main. This is drone like, ambient, atmospheric, isolationist even, and maybe also musique concrete, melting together in short repeating loops. A fine mix of the best of things, and while not for his unique style - nothing here that we may not have heard anywhere else - this is some excellent music. Probably the best release I heard from him so far." [FdW/Vital Weekly]