Transmissions --- STS 51-D

from 'Feed The Tape' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den247
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/orsonhentschel]

Orson Hentschel is a German composer and producer based in Düsseldorf. Having started to play classical piano at an early age, he now mainly composes electronic, experimental and film music. His debut "Feed The Tape" is strongly influenced by Classical Minimal Music. Especially the compository methods of Steve Reich such as phase variations, looping and imitation enter Hentschel's work. However, these methods serve as characteristic compository elements rather than being in the focus of the pieces. The loop, which often is the starting point of one of Hentschels works, usually plays the role of a constant sound substrate on which harmonic-melodic elements can thrive.

Although Hentschel went through a classical musical education, his compositional techniques are by far not traditional. In fact he does not start with a musical idea, but with searching for suitable sound material. His interest lies in sounds and samples which had been used in a music or film music context before - film audio tracks, soundtracks, music albums, internet, sound libraries etc. He estranges this source material in order to create his own sound - hence the name of his debut album. Hentschel's interest in polyphonic vocal music from the late middle ages - especially ars nova and trecento - stems from his earlier study of musical science in Vienna and Dresden. For this reason two of his pieces (Florence, Slow-Moving) contain music from this epoch in a processed form.

Hentschel does not consider himself as a composer of contemporary music, but as a multimedia artist. He developed his own audiovisual performance, based on the interplay of light, visuals and fog. Moreover he is supported by live drummer Lukas Baumgart and together him and Hentschel create an energy which can be heard as well as felt. His aim is to take the listener on an hour-long journey which brings him to the limits of what he can bear. This is achieved by extended repetitions and long arcs of suspense rather than sheer volume. 

Feed The Tape

Orson Hentschel - Noise Of The Light

Here is another track taken from "whisper my world" ... the CD is sold out on Eilean shop, but I have a handful of copies. If you have not yet managed to buy a copy you can order it from my bandcamp:

https://xu-substance.bandcamp.com/album/whisper-my-world

Whisper my World

Old People And Young Children

Old People And Young Children - Whisper my world (Eilean Rec)

Projektions - Sea Dreamer, taken from the new album "The Shores of Valhalla"

Format: Digital and a Double CD which contains " The Arran Sessions" and "The Tempest Sessions"

Limited Edition Double Cdr / 50 copies / Handmade sleeves / Hand numbered / Black & Brown Kraft paper / High quality pro duplicated Cdr's / No repress

Order:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-shores-of-valhalla

Projektions - Sea Dreamer (Taken from "The Shores of Valhalla")

Non-album single from new ambient trio PCM. learn more at: https://n5md.com/artist/PCM

PCM - Ma

Cool Afternoon

another piece from a live session, using new techniques and letting machines show me their secrets . This one has been slightly edited and arranged but nonetheless fully represents the live session in which it was recorded. Guitar and some pedals into Ableton...

Evinya (live edit)

One of the beautiful, pastorally infused tracks off of the lovely new album from English artist, Enofa... entitled "Nerra Ninna Noak"...

Ambient.loop - Distance

ambient.loop