Label: Sublime Retreat

赤ラベルをあしらった抽象的アートワークという一貫したジャケイメージにて大量の音源を発表している、オランダの大ベテラン作家Frans de Waardの2014年始動の変名Modelbau。ポーランドSublime Retreatより2023年に出版した約1時間の濃密持続音大作[Extricate]。カセット、ディクタフォン、ウォークマン、短波ラジオから採取したくぐもったノイズ音のみで構成、分厚い霧の様な情景を抽出したネットリとした重々しいアブストラクト・ドローン。美しいスリーヴデザインはRutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek)が担当。



The first ten years of Modelbau ended with the publication of 'X', a book and CD by Korm Plastics, documenting all there is to know (and see) about Modelbau. It also marked a substantial change in working as Modelbau. Almost everything was recorded 'live' in the studio in the first nine years. Everything was recorded and archived, and the best pieces ended up on a release. In 2021, it was time for a change, which meant working with multi-track recording and, to the end, many hours of processed sound were recorded and then meticulously edited and layered in the final piece on the CD. One piece in (almost) fourteen parts, with no individual markers, so as not to interrupt the flow - listen from beginning to end. Atmospheric, dark with an urgency, always moving and never waiting.

Modelbau is one of the many musical projects by Frans de Waard (also of Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen, Goem, Zebra, Freiband, Shifts, and many others), and the music he creates as such is quite lo0fi, using cassettes Dictaphones, walkmans, shortwave radio but also iPads. Modelbau has released over 70 releases, mostly on cassette but also on CD and LP, by such labels as Moving Furniture Records, Des Astres d'Or, Zhelezobeton, Econore, Grisaille, Cloudchamber and many others. Modelbau has worked with MvK, Scanner, Vertonen, PBK, Pool pervert, and Oprhax, among others. Modelbau played over thirty concerts in the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Finland, and the Baltic States in the past ten years.