Solenopsis (album) by Zuckermann
My 2nd album "Solenopsis" in a nutshell:
To 'go where no one has gone before' and hence, back to that point in time (roughly early Warp) where everything seemed possible and ‚genres‘ were not yet clearly defined in electronic music. Use that as a starting point, and then explore where electronic music could have arrived at also.
In this case: 5 to the floor, dry Dub, the (not so) unexpected use of composition techniques from baroque music, adaptive aleatoric complexity, silence, improvisational sprees inspired by Miles Davis' Fusion/ Experimental Jazz of the early 70ies, or finally, some sleepy boredom. More generally, a deconstruction and a disruption of 'functionality' as we know it (now).
All this is less about a ‚going back‘ or a ‚nostalgia‘ but about "(that) it is not important where you take things from, but where you take them to“ (Godard).
In other words, exploring white spots on the electronic music landscape that hopefully are rather interesting, crazy, or weird, in a way which gets under the skin - or crawls on your skin (Solenopsis)…
Tracklist
| 1. | Dark Star (Dog's Collar) | 4:11 |
| 2. | Passacaglia | 4:56 |
| 3. | Take Five | 9:34 |
| 4. | Distant Memories (Hackney 1994) | 1:57 |
| 5. | Tirez sur le Pianiste (pour Magali) | 9:51 |
| 6. | Le Feu Follet (for Anna) | 1:44 |
| 7. | Tannhaeuser Gate (309 re-edit) | 7:36 |
| 8. | Waking Sleep (Studio Kreuzberg) | 8:31 |
| 9. | Disco Irae | 5:41 |
Credits
cover by Lucas Gutierrez
