Mikroton Recordings is extremely proud to present two releases:
Günter Müller - cym_bowl (Mikroton CD 1)Born in München in 1954, living in Switzerland since 1966, percussionist Günter Müller has been playing a unique drum set with a mobile pick-up and microphone system of his own invention since 1981. The system allows hand-generated sounds on drums and percussion to be modulated electronically.
Müller continues to distance himself from his roots as a more traditional percussionist, currently incorporating such electronic devices as minidiscs (since 1998) and an iPod (since 2002). He's been involved with innumerable projects and other musicians over the past thirty years, including long-term musical relationships with Jim O'Rourke, Lawrence D. Butch Morris, Voice Crack, eRikM, Ralph Steinbrüchel, Jason Kahn, Tomas Korber, Philip Samartzis, Otomo Yoshihide, Norbert Möslang, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, Lê Quan Ninh, Keith Rowe, Carlos Zingaro, Sachiko M, Urs Leimgruber, Christian Wolfarth, Mark O’Leary and Michel Doneda. Müller has released more than thirty records on his own For 4 Ears label, as well as others on Grob, Rossbin, Cut, Charhizma, Creative Sources, Audiosphere, Amoebic and List.
Günter Müller was a founding member of Nachtluft with Andres Bosshard and Jacques Widmer who have been creating sound installations and sound architecture and of the electronic quartet poire_z with eRikm and Voice Crack. He is a part of mkm_trio with Jason Kahn and Norbert Möslang and Signal Quintet with Jason Kahn, Norbert Möslang, Tomas Korber and Christian Weber.
cym_bowl is his first project for Mikroton, following the aesthetic of his previous work Reframed released on Cut in 2006, exploring sound possibilities of cymbals and bowls. cym_bowl comprises four distinct pieces, warm and comfortable, yet still challenging the listener at every turn. cym_bowl is Günter Müller’s fourth solo CD. On cym_bowl he follows even more consequently the idea he already realized on his last album reframed; focused on the sound of one cymbal and one singing bowl; he feeded his iPods with dozens of variations of processed sounds. Afterwards he conceived with recorded material from sessions he improvised with processed cymbal and bowl sounds only the 4 pieces for his new album. cym_bowl could easily go as a symbol of getting lost in time.
information:
Cymbals and a singing bowl were recorded and processed during 2007–08, mixed, compiled and mastered in autumn 2008 at remisch lupsingen. All music and artwork by Günter Müller.
Alan Courtis/Jaime Genovart/Christof Kurzmann/Pablo Reche - Palmar Zähler (Mikroton CD 2)It is now 5 years that I travel to Latin America. My home base in Buenos Aires; and from there to almost all the other countries. When I arrived there first, I did not know much about the music scene, especially about any scene committed to “New Music” or “Improvisation”, but with the time i encountered a lot of movement, a lot of interesting music (of any form or genre) and I encountered musicians, that if they had been born in the so called “civilized West” would be within the most important protagonists of their scenes. With some of these musicians I finally became friends, met their work and started to work with them myself. Palmar Zähler (the title of the album, as all the title of all tracks on it, has no further meaning — its chosen only for reasons of “sound” and of losing yourself in translation), is the first release to document my experiences in Latin America. I had the honour to meet three of the most renown players within the Argentinean experimental music scene. Alan Courtis (probably famous for being member of the metal-noise band Reynols, by now leaving the guitar in its “classical” form behind him and developing his own instruments, still strings based, but returning to much more primitive forms to advance much further), Pablo Reche (one of the few electronic musicians to be known for his quite eclectic mix of ambient sounds and field recordings even within Europe) and Jaime Genovart (the man in the background, hardly ever playing live, the more investigating for new sounds in his studio) were partners for a recording made last year, that I think should not be considered as something exotic, but more compared to all the other music that is around today (including Africa, Asia and Latin America — the so called third world countries). I hope you all enjoy!
Christof Kurzmann, March 2009, Buenos Aires / Argentina
information:
Alan Courtis: homemade violin, contact mic, mp3, tapes & processing
Jaime Genovart: recording, synth, voice
Christof Kurzmann: lloopp, clarinet, voice
Pablo Reche: minidisc, ipod, alesis nanoverb, korg MS10
Recorded may 19th 2008 at Studio INCLANG, Buenos Aires
Additional edits: Christof Kurzmann
Mastered by Jaime Genovart
Cover photo: ograma, cover design: biomedia.com.ar
more info available at:
www.mikroton.net----------------------------------------
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upcoming releases:
Mikroton CD 3: Jason Kahn/Asher
Mikroton CD 4: Alexei Borisov/Thomas Buckner/Edyta Fil/Kurt Liedwart
Mikroton DVD 1: Kenneth Kirschner
Mikroton DVD 2: Sound Canvas 1 | 2 (Compilation of sound art, minimal and improvised music)
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