Label: Creel Pone - CREELP106

1946年オースラリア出身の音楽家Klaus Agerが70年代半ばに残したLPのCD-R。ストックホルムEMSスタジオで録音された70年代作品が中心で、特にハードコアな催眠電子ドローンを特徴とする作風は聴きもの。



... creel-pro of this mid-70’s aulos lp, with klaus ager’s three-part “sondern die sterne sinds” (recorded in the “computer music” studio at ems stockholm from 1974-1976, as well as the electronic studio at salzburg’s “hochschule mozarteum”) slowly unfolding over the a-side & two shorter chamber pieces, “i remember a bird” (for clarinet, trombone, guitar, piano, percussion, and tape) & “metaboles i” (for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano) on the other ...

... rising from a whisper, the first movement of “sondern die stern sinds” slowly builds from a sustained bell-sound (with cymbal harmonics interjected into the electronically-created syntax) into fairly head-compressing mid-range drone ... this recedes & the gorgeous second movement kicks in, rife with more enharmonic relationships between the tones beating slowly in & out of phase before a slightly crispy wave of analogue tones ushers in & brings a subtle, bubbling rhythm (listen to the sound-sample for a taste of that section) ... finally, sparse, feedback-oriented “ringing” synthesized birdsong takes a few minutes to clear the air before a big, pulsating wall of screaming high-res filter smear & augmented pulse-wave stasis bring in a big ‘ol miasma of electronic drone ...

this whole piece has the energy of gunner møller pedersen & roland kayn’s extended work, albeit edited down for a more palatable, session-able length ; it’s a great slab of electronic drone-sound that seems to have slipped through the cracks un-checked ; kudos to mr. p.c. c.p. for the un-earth ...