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Title:  Life Like Artist:  Hans Joachim Irmler Label:  Staubgold Format:  CD Price:  € 15.50   Mp3 samples:   1

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"It's a highly individual, warm, glowing soundworld, and Irmler stitches it all together with a grace and organic continuity that makes you feel like you're being told a story. Or maybe even a fictional aural biography. Beautiful." (Peter Marsh, BBC Music Online).

"Whenever I talked to him over the last weeks, it seemed that wherever he was, he had a version of Lifelike running in the background - in his house, at friendsÕ houses, in his car (very often), and I suspect that once he even persuaded the owner of a pub to put it on. Why he did this? Certainly not to show off, because he is by nature a shy person. My guess is that he wanted to change the record by listening to it. He has been working for a long time on his first ever solo-outing, which also is - if IÕm not greatly mistaken - the first official solo album of any of the original FAUST members ever to be released." (Ralf Bei Der Kellen).

Vital Review:
HANS JOACHIM IRMLER - LIFELIKE (CD by Staubgold)
It's probably blasphemy, but I must admit I was never a big fan of
Faust. There it is. Whatever old or new I heard or what I saw live,
it just wasn't made for me I guess. So someone had to tell me that it
is kinda odd that none of the Faust member ever did a solo CD (maybe
because I don't think I could mention that many Faust members by
name), but here it is, at last. A CD by Faust's keyboardplayer Hans
Joachim Irmler. The thematic approach here is the day in the life of
an ordinary person. Originally composed for a museum, portraying the
life of Roman soldiers at the turn of the millenium (BC to AD that
is) in Upper Swabia (where Irmler lives), but later on extended it
into this album. Taking field recording and analogue instruments, but
distorting them via the use of equipment, thus rendering the original
beyond recognition, making things loud and aggressive - noisy but in
a percussive way. Keyboards play an important role in this work, no
wonder of course, and sometimes the album leaps back into more
regular ambient passages, especially towards the end. This makes this
album into quite a strange mixture of ambient music and banging,
percussive textures when the raindrops are processed into gunshots.
Highlight of the CD is for me 'Trevo', with it's processed bell-like
sounds and an overall spooky atmosphere. (FdW)