CD

Edition: 500

mikroton cd 2

 

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

 

 

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