Last Christmas

kerosene

Where Have You Been?

Live @ Sonology ShowLab (Café de Vinger, The Hague) 23.03.15

http://sonologyshowlab.tumblr.com/

Live @ Sonology ShowLab

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 - What's Going On

Produced by Soap&Skin
original written by Omar Souleyman
mastered by Patrick Pulsinger

SOAP&SKIN - MAWAL JAMAR

Dropp - Patterns
Out for White Forest Records on 8th March 2016

www.droppsound.com
www.whiteforestrecords.com

No Induction

Fragment taken from live performance in Rotterdam. 

Gobi Masala

I. 2c 
II. Flutter
III. Moments in Love

out 04.28.17 https://boomkat.com/products/grafts

GRAFTS

Find the record here: https://sovnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/maison

Maison is the recording of a concert held by Andrea Bruera, one of SØVN founders, in Marseille, France at the very beginning of 2018. 

Andrea Bruera's 'Lost, Found' was the first release by SØVN Records, 3 years ago. During these 3 years, the Italian musician has been playing live at a constant pace, taking with him his laptop and his electric mandola. These two instruments have been his own movable home: the only things which could never be left behind when relocating from one place to another. From Barcelona to Turin, to Marseille, then back to the Italian Alps, but this time on the eastern side. 

And around this movable home, for each of these shifts, Andrea's past and present music were intertwining in the most surprising ways. 'Maison' captures this unpredictable run of a single red thread, which connects moments far away in time (Ausfahrt) with points far away in space (Warszawa Zachodnia), which sails across seas to reach unexplored, exotic coasts (So We Ain't Alone Anymore) only after having stolen golden treasures along the way (Stolen Music For Lute). 

All of this, just to find oneself at home anywhere. 

'Maison' is a celebration of the third anniversary of SØVN.
credits
releases May 6, 2018 

Original artwork photo: Angelica Vanni

Hemingway (from Maison - SVN017)

Casa è aver cura del proprio giardino

broken bones, strings stretched and bowed over pickups, and digital devilry. 

My home is SØVN. @s-vn

Hemingway (from Maison - SVN017)

Andrea Bruera

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