KRAUSE, ANDRES — Move Ground

Format: LP
Label & Cat.Number: Streamline 1024
Release Year: 2010
Note: based on a soundtrack for an audio-visual installation; a sound-journey using field recordings from Cologne; co-produced by CHRISTOPH HEEMANN, KRAUSE is also known as AFRI STUDIOS and with his label SOFTL MUSIC
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"The development and reproduction of new sound spaces, Move Ground is based on the soundtrack of an audio-visual installation of the same title that was premiered at the third Horkunst Festival in Erlangen, Germany in 2005. Field recordings from locations with inspiring acoustic qualities in Cologne were edited and mixed with select electronic sounds to create a sonic journey exploring varying external and internal spaces, providing an experience of the atmosphere and the spatial dimensions of the different locations. Move Ground was recorded and mixed by Andrs Krause in 2004-2006."
"From the top you can make out the wonderful and awesome sight of the plains that lie below, worn out at the foot of the city. On the horizon tall brick chimneys, round and square, vomit billows of soot into the clouds, while little further down, barely passing over the flat roofs of workshops covered in bituminized felt and sheet metal, whistling jets of white steam escape from thin aluminum flue pipes. A great silence descends over the plain as the rumble of the city dies out little by little and the noise from distant factories reaches you but falteringly. Sometimes, however, like a horrible complaint, you can hear the dull, raucous whistle of trains from the station as they pass, hidden by an embankment planted with acacias and ash trees. Finally, in the distance, in the far distance, a large white road climbs a hill and loses itself in the sky, its summit crowned by a billow of dust, like a cloud stirred up by an invisible horse drawn cart, hidden by the curve of the earth." [label info]

"Der Klner Knstler Andrs Krause wirkt im Verborgenen. Groe zeitliche Abstnde liegen zwischen seinen Releases und auch die Musik selbst ist von einer gewissen Flchtigkeit und strahlt etwas von dunklen Geheimnissen aus. Move Ground erstreckt sich in vier Parts ber zwei LP-Suiten und ist wieder eine kraftvolle und intensive Arbeit geworden. Aber auch hier wird der Hrer nicht durch augenscheinliche Dynamik ins Geschehen hineingezogen, sondern muss sich den Zugang gewissermaen erlauschen. Ein Aufkleber auf der Hlle verweist als Sourcings auf Klnge des Klner Auenraums kaum zu glauben, lassen die bassig-schabenden, irgendwie noch vorne drckenden Klnge doch eher an Unterwasserlandschaft oder schattige Hhlen denken. Lediglich im Part 4 von Move Ground treten konkrete Klnge aus den tiefen Frequenzschichten hervor: ein pochender Rhythmus wie von Fustapfen mischt sich in die Textur, auch meint man, Stimmen zu hren. Ein Release, dem man Zeit geben mu, um auf as Gemt zu wirken." [Zipo / Auf Abwegen]