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ZEITKRATZER - Zeitkratzer play Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music

Format: do-LP
Label & Cat.Number: Karlrecords KR016
Release Year: 2014
Note: new "acoustic" interpretation of LOU REEDs avantgarde / pre-industrial & noise classic (1975) by the famous German new music ensemble - for the first time all four parts - radical contemporary chamber noise music..."the brain starts to implode, or explode, or dissolve Zen-like into the controlled chaos of the performance!" Lim. 500 copies
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"About 10 years after their first, critically acclaimed performances of Lou Reed’s adventurous album, zeitkratzer presents an audacious new interpretation of this 20th century avantgarde classic. Here, for the first time ever, all four parts of Metal Machine Music played by zeitkratzer on one recording! Seriously “clangorous”!

This new version of Metal Machine Musicis even more transparent, instrumentally pure and radical than the shortened 2007 release; live recordings from concerts in Rome and Reggio Emilia, Italy, mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker. A real sound experience!

After their first performances in 2002 (documented on the 2007 CD release on Asphodel) zeitkratzer gave Reed’s album a new thorough listen and transcribed the sounds to create an acoustic score for the ensemble to play live. Those familiar with the oft-criticized two-disc album might wonder how they pulled this off, but they did and their interpretation of the work brought it to the attention of a wider audience. It is therefore partly thanks to the zeitkratzer version that Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Musichas been rediscovered as a classic of the Twentieth Century. It was at the live performance with zeitkratzer in Berlin, that Lou Reed spoke for the first time in public about the musical details of his composition, in an interview with Diedrich Diedrichsen.

zeitkratzer was clearly ready for the challenges of performing Metal Machine Musiclive, and drew packed houses for their presentation of the work. This confirmed their assertion that rock’n’roll as serious contemporary music has been ignored for too long, in too arrogant a way. The relentless sound forces the mind to put aside its preconceptions about what music is supposed to sound like, or feel like, or look like. The brain starts to implode, or explode, or dissolve Zen-like into the controlled chaos of the performance, discovering a strange exhilaration, accepting an invitation to explore the outer reaches of texture and timbre, to experience a sonic freedom that’s rare in any art form. These recordings from the
Metal Machine Music has become even more intense and worked out during the ten years of zeitkratzer playing it live at numerous international festivals – contemporary music festivals, noise festivals, improvisation festivals, – it’s impossible to limit this music to one genre. Metal Machine Music has gained a new quality of clarity, sound transparence and musical intensity. Real radical contemporary chamber noise music! These recordings from the Festival Romaeuropa in Rome and the Festival Aperto in Reggio Emilia (2012) present zeitkratzer not only at their very best, the splendid mix by Rashad Becker also reveals new aspects of this 20th century avant-garde classic!

[GER] 10 Jahre nach ihren ersten, von der Kritik umjubelten Aufführungen von Lou Reeds epochalem Album präsentieren zeitkratzer eine fulminante neue Interpretation dieses Klassikers der Avantgarde. Erstmal überhaupt alle vier Teile komplett auf einer Doppel-LP! Oft kritisiert und lange Zeit umstritten, ist "Metal Machine Musik" nicht zuletzt dank zeitkratzer, die 2002 Lou Reeds Album erstmals für ihr Ensemble transkribierten und in gefeierten Aufführungen auf internationalen Festivals präsentierten, inzwischen fester Bestandteil des Avantgarde-Kanons und ein Klassiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Gute zehn Jahre nach seiner ersten Einspielung (dokumentiert auf der 2007 auf Asphodel erschienenen CD) unterzog das für sein außergewöhnliches Repertoire, das von Komponisten wie Stockhausen, Cage oder Schönberg über Elektronik-Künstler wie Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) oder Terre Thaemlitz bis zu Noise-Vertretern wie Merzbow reicht, bekannte Ensemble "Metal Machine Music" einer neuen Betrachtung. Diese neue und erstmals komplette Aufnahme (gemixt und gemastert von Rashad Becker) von den Festivals Romaeuropa (Rom) und Aperto in Reggio Emilia präsentiert nicht nur zeitkratzer in gewohnter Bestform, sondern ist auch deutlich transparenter und zugleich intensiver, lässt die einzelnen Instrumente klarer hervortreten und gewinnt dem wegweisenden Werk ungeahnte, bislang verborgene Aspekte ab. Radikale zeitgenössische Kammer-Noise-Musik, die musikalisch wie klanglich neue Maßstäbe setzt!" [label info]


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