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Title:  Mort Aux Vaches - Random Dilettantes Artist:  Zeitkratzer Label:  Mort Aux Vaches Format:  CD Price:  € 14.80   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
composition: reinhold friedl
this cd shouldÊ be played with random or shuttle function

zeitkratzer will soon be the center of innovative music. This project promises to be endlessly fascinating, the Wire magazin wrote three years ago. Three years later, after a lot of different projects, inluding zeitkratzerÕs already legendary cooperation with Lou Reed, international critics agree: zeitkratzer is the best contemporary music ensemble in the world (entrevista Lissboa, dna Roma).

For the Staalplaat-label mort aux vaches zeitkratzer realized a special project: random dilettants, now out on CD: as a tribute to the label-name, every musician only melked the instruments of the other musicians in the group, instruments he does not know to play correctly. What came out, is a collection of 50 really differentiated sounds, to get hooked on.They are arranged as a piece, but can also be played and understood as a home-sound-installation, playing the CD with random or shuffle-funktion. So zeitkratzer comes here with its best quality: the sound-fetishism. zeitkratzerÕs sound is sensational! ans the german newspaper tageszeitung wrote, ... and respect to the used media: a CD that will provide the listeners their own sound-installation.

Vital Review:
The Berlin based Zeitkratzer ensemble is mostly known for playing acoustic
versions of electronic pieces, and mostly by non academic composers, such as
Merzbow, Francisco Lopez or Bernard Gunter. Last year's visit to Amsterdam
show them performing Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. The ensemble conists of
10 persons, playing accordion, violins, voices, saxophone and tuba. When
they set out in the VPRO studios to record a radio session, they for once
didn't play an outsider piece, but an insider one: a piece by Rainhold
Friedl, whom I believe is the founder of the Zeitkratzer Ensemble. The
ensemble set out to play ten pieces of circa one minute after which all the
members changed instruments with the guy next to his/hers and then record
the next ten pieces. Then it was repeated until they had about 100 different
music pieces. All of these pieces consisted of improvised playing, although
there were agreements, I think, on intensity. Back in Berlin Friedl selected
the fifty best pieces and placed them on the final CD release (which is, it
must be said, packed nicely: the cover is covered with lottery stuff which
you have to scratch away, before you can read any information at all -
another one to drive shopkeepers crazy) which you can play in random or
shuffle mode, or programm according to your own taste - not an entirely new
idea, Staalplaat already has Ios Smolders' 'Music For CD Player' in their
catalogue. However, keep in mind: can play in random mode, since Friedl made
his selection too and that is, for the lazy listener like me, to be played
as a composition. It's a very condensed and layered recording of improvising
instruments, with in most pieces some repeating elements, which add a
minimalist character to the pieces. It makes this more than just another
work of improvisation, more like a crossover between composition and
improvisation, and therefore should appeal to more than just the lovers of
improvisation. (FdW)