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Title:  Amazing Daze Artist:  Markus Schmickler and Hayden Chisholm - Various Artists Label:  Hapna Format:  CD Price:  € 13.40   Mp3 samples: none

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"By now Marcus Schmickler should be a man of high reputation - at least in my book he is. His rock work with Pluramon, improvising matters with Mimeo (as well as with various project with separate members), but also composing in his own right, such as his excellent work 'Demos' (see Vital Weekly 543) - he can do it all, with great ease. Here he works with Hayden Chisholm, who plays saxophone and who has worked with Rebecca Horn and with jazz and contemporary music. On 'Amazing Daze' he plays bagpipes and sho. The title piece is for Phil Niblock, while 'Infinity On The Shape Of A Poodle' is for Bjšrk Gudmundsdottir. The title piece is much a like a Niblock piece: a wall of sound drone of sustaining sounds. But there is a main difference: whereas Niblock cuts out the actual breathing of the player, Schmickler leaves it in, but not every time it is necessary to blow the bagpipes, but with regular intervals. What Schmickler does, credited with computer and electronics, is mainly, I guess, in the amplification of the instruments, the recording (layering the sound sources) and mixing. 'Amazing Daze' is powerful piece of music. 'Infinity On The Shape Of A Poodle' is much lighter of tone, played on the higher end of the musical scale, and probably the piece played with the sho. It sounds more like a reflective piece of music, less like a treat like the previous piece does, where the sounds get so much knitted together that it could almost be like a church organ or even, as the piece progresses, piercing feedback like sounds. It works not as well as the first piece, but throughout this is an excellent Schmickler work. FdW, Vital Weekly

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