A strangely mesmeric, avant-garde and analogue-ambient, field recording-based experimental release by the last surviving founding member of experimental ‘krautrock’ band CAN, who, approaching the age of 89, has also written over 40 TV and film scores. At just two tracks, around 23 and 17 minutes apiece, Part 1 beginning with birdsong, particularly the nightingale, frogs and later sheep, recorded near his home in southern France, before the occasional haunting death-knell of a disturbing piano arpeggio, with echoes Stockhausen with a dash of John Cage, before morphing into the sound of churning of hospital washing machines, to the relaxing sounds of a stream, or Japanese water garden and gentle wooden gongs, with further birdsong bookending. The darker Part 2 opens with a similar piano motif, now expanded, the heavily splashing rain gutter, before the rainfall gets steadily heavier, accompanied by a steady single note piano pulse, then dissolving into sprawling abstraction, crash-bangs and arrhythmic percussion across a steady tick of a grandfather clock, then more heavy rain, gradually fading. Is this death approaching, washed away through time and mutability, disturbance and then peace? That is of course open to interpretation, but it’s a fascinating work to take the imagination into all kinds of realms. Out on Future Days Music / Mute.
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