PBK:"From the moment I first heard Jeph Jerman's work I was fascinated. His trio, City Of Worms, a sample-based loop project, was the first thing that impressed me. But it was his solo project, Hands To, that really caught my imagination, especially an album titled "Mose Wreck" from 1987. Jerman taught me a lot about deep listening, he found many ways of achieving bootleg quality lo-fi sounds and used them extensively in his work. In my opinion, Hands To took the notion of sound deconstruction and subliminals to a new artistic level- there was nothing cliche about his work, it was a new way of constructing totally abstract compositions. He was also a true improvisational artist as evidenced by the skronk and free jazz recordings he did with Big Joey and Blowhole. Jeph Jerman is a prolific genius and continues to make brilliant music today.
I was interested in incorporating my own synth-based sounds with Hands To's damaged field recording drones. The tracks on Verfall, our first collaboration together, define what I refer to as "noise-field works". These are sound structures that have a basic abstract-noise background in which indefinable sounds push through, punctuate and create peaks in the structure. These environments don't stray too far from Jerman's sound source origins, but contain enough looping and swirling within the drones that the structures, at times, become sort of proto-rhythmic. It is difficult to identify the sources used to create these soundscapes, I hear orchestral samples, slowed voices, synthesizer tones, electroacoustics, etc. The result is a very good (early) example of what I now refer to simply as 'noise-ambient' music."
UPDATE: Download link is removed as of 6/3/09. I am very pleased to announce that Verfall and it's companion piece, Melachoir, from 1989 are to be released as a forthcoming double cd by Cathartic Process in 2009. This is going to be a beautiful limited edition release. I will keep the readers of this blog informed of the details.DOWNLOAD (mp3 320kbps 112 mb zip file includes covers)
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5 comments:
beautiful, thank you.
Bummer. I had requested these tapes on the blog. Forgot to check last week. That'll learn me.
I love the Verfall tape on SOP and your tape and Hands to tapes.
It´s just so beautiful - the sound is so relaxing.
Cathartic Process link is´nt working. Why?
I hope you will notify on the blogg when the relese is out.
ok have a nice time
Stefan in Stockholm
I will keep the readers of this blog informed of the forthcoming reissue. Cathartic has not formally announced the release yet, but I wanted to provide the link to their site for those who wish to have a look at their catalog:
http://www.catharticprocess.com/
For the folks who missed the download here, I apologize. Please keep checking this blog. There are many interesting things I will be posting in the coming months. It simply takes time to remaster and create covers, etc.
Thanks for all the kind words, I truly appreciate everyone's support.
This was a really good release. I have this on tape, attributed to PHBTK
Jeph is brilliant. I've seen him perform three or four times and I'm just completely blown away and humbled by what he does.
Anyway, I look forward to the re-issue.
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