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Title:  Boom_Box Artist:  Mueller_Moeslang Label:  Grob Format:  CD Price:  € 13.80   Mp3 samples:   1   2

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Boom Box is one of the first recordings of Norbert Mšslang after the break up of Voice Crack, his legendary Duo with Andi GŸhl which lasted a good 30 years. It was performed in October 2001 in Cologneâs Loft with GŸnter MŸller.
Back then Voice Crack still existed, and Mšslangâs gig with MŸller would seem to be something frivolous. Would it work? To perform in another duo? Without the trusty colleague? Obviously Norbert Mšslang and GŸnter MŸller didnât care much about these questions. boom-box is not about how much or how little it sounds like Voice Crack. Not only, because GŸnter MŸller ö drummer, percussionist and live electronics performer in the last ten years ö brought along a complete instrumentarium (with this in mind, one could just as easily ask how much or little this recordings has from MŸllerâs other recordings?). The focus has shifted ö with Voice Crack we did not only hear improvisation, but rather the sound of manipulated, half-kaput, destroyed or decoded electronic devises from everyday life. On boom-box, Mšslang also plays his cracked everyday-electronics, but their tonal surroundings is a different one. It is a wide, ethereal tonal ambience, the structures are lucid, the music is transparent. Again and again there are foregrounds and backgrounds, individual tonal configurations stand out clearly and distinctly, specific sounds are repeated, thus creating a scaffold through which other sounds are elegantly woven.
Since the early 90âs, MŸller and Mšslang have played with all the greats of electro-acoustic improvisation: with Otomo Yoshihide, Jim OâRourke, Borbetomagus, JŽrome Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti, Keith Rowe, Erik M., Toshimaru Nakemura. The two count as (voluntary/non-voluntary) co-founder of this scene. In the presence of these impressive musical biographies, boom_box is not a summary, itâs not a ãconcentration on the essential,ä but rather something new, a next step and a very elegant one at that."

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