Label: Edition Telemark - 31401

Wolf Vostellの[Concert Fluxus "Sara-Jevo"]をリリースした新興レーベルEdition Telemarkの第一弾作品がコレ。20年以上即興の演奏家として、また作曲家として活動をしてきたダルムシュタットの大ベテランHans Esselによる、なんと20年以上の活動でコレが初という音盤！！バイオリンとビオラによる新しい手法を試したというもので、トニーコンラッド、小杉武久ともまた違う、背筋がゾワゾワする金切り声の様な不穏な音像。これは激ヤバ。マスト。

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Highly recommended first-ever release for Darmstadt-based composer Hans Essel who has been active in improvised music and Grundlagenmusik (foundational music) for more than 20 years.

This LP showcases his project Saitensack (string-bag) in which he develops new ways of playing the violin and viola. Comparisons could be drawn to other experimental violinists like Tony Conrad and Takehisa Kosugi but Hans Essel uses a far more stripped-down approach: The instruments are neither modified nor amplified. Strings are not pressed by fingers but rather damped. Only through bowing, they are excited to complex free vibrations, sometimes harsh and noisy, at other times reminiscent of uilleann pipes with cracking and breaking like in yodeling. Saitensack focuses on the origin of tones out of the noise, zooming into the very character of string instruments. Saitensack is pure violin. The essence of violin playing.