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現在も当店人気タイトルとなっている[Short Scenes]を制作した、Machinefabriekと女性バイオリン/ヴィオラ奏者Anne Bakkerの最強コンビが新録を発表！！Anne Bakkerは本作で初めて古典的なポリフォニックを意識した歌声及びボイスの実験を披露しており、それらが流麗なバイオリン&ヴィオラ、そしてMachinefabriekのガキゴキ音響のサウンドスケープの上に乗るという、前作と比べ不協和でありながらユニークという遊び心のある仕上がり。Machinefabriekによるセルフリリース。大推薦。



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Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek needs no introduction - a hugely prolific Electronic Experimenter who has recorded for labels such as Type, Digitalis, Dekorder, Western Vinyl, and many many more, Where To Now Records are truly humbled to handle his latest collaborative work ‘Oehoe’. Produced in collaboration with viola/violinist Anne Bakker, a classically trained solo artist in her own right, and currently performing strings as part of Agnes Obel’s band, Machinefabriek here has sown a landscape of Anna’s raw violin, viola, and vocal improvisations into a stirring body of work which merges tradition, experimentation, and whimsical curiosity to create a distinctively unique album which is both deeply moving and playfully dissonant in equal measure.

Given that Anne’s improvised vocals are wordless throughout, it is to Rutger’s absolute credit that he has assembled and transcended these intonations to often devastating emotional effect. Anna’s vocal experiments exude classical polyphonic antiquity, they lushly hover above her own Reichian minimalist string arrangements, and Machinefabriek’s deeply brooding, cacophonic synthesized soundscapes. Across these 10 pieces we delve into a world which seamlessly moves between a state of harmonious contentment; or a very murky calm, to moments of lively ecstasy, and deep deep down to a vast and brooding melancholy.