Klangmutationen: Schwarzhagel CD – Out Now!
from jabesoud:
The latest CD from Klangmutationen, “Schwarzhagel”, is due out on the 13th of September (this Saturday) on Utech Records. Available in 750 copies.
Artwork by Stephen Kasner. Audio mastering by James Plotkin (ex-OLD!!!).
“Klangmutationen are an mystery. More could be said about what their music isn’t than what it is. Hailing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the underground experimentalists pierce the veils of Eastern and Western music. Recalling early sets on FMP as well as the Takayanagi/Abe axis of Japanese free music, Schwarzhagel is the sound of a spirit falling past its own life after death, forever.”
more: utechrecords.com
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II by Klangmutationen
II by Klangmutationen
Shit man! I love it! Plotkin’s mastering made it so HUGE! Intense! Way to go Yandsen, Ah Tham & gang!!!!!
James Plotkin is the man!!! Good going guys!!!
waaa. malaysia boleh? 🙂
found this on the norman records distro website
“Also on Utech this week is Klangmutationen’s Schwarzhagel album. This lot have definitely got a sound that’s all their own, it sounds like they’re jamming with the strings on their instruments totally slackened off while playing the tuning keys as much as the fretboards to create a slippery, serpentine effect. Tool have used that idea on a couple of tracks in a much more immediately accessible way but this takes it several hundred steps further out there. The ‘Klang’ part of the name is totally fitting, that’s for sure. This is a tough one to glean a comparison from really, I don’t think it really sounds like anyone else but if I throw a generalized comparison to Tzadik stuff in here I don’t think anyone would complain. Intriguing and highly recommended for the more adventurous among you!”