Audiac’s 2003 debut, Thank You For Not Discussing The Outside World (Klangbad), was produced by Hans-Joachim Irmler of Faust and continues to maintain a top-20 ranking on rateyourmusic.com’s trip-hop chart between Portishead and Massive Attack. The sound occasionally recalls the radio-ready freeze-dried chansons of Bowie or Björk, but its emotional nudity anchors it firmly in the tradition of performance art. With hooks, of course – Alexander Wiemer and Niklas David may be slaves to the self-assigned task of designing a musical universe from the inside out, but they have no intention of inhabiting it alone.

The new album – due out in September 2017 – takes the duo even farther into the realm of musical abstraction. David weaves keyboards, samples and synthesizer into landscapes of shimmering harmony, then deconstructs them with powerful gestures of dissonance. Wiemer’s dynamic, jazz-inflected vocal stylings skate across frozen lagoons of polyphony or draw on the power of interjected rhythms. Ringer Anja Füsti provides commentary in the language of classically trained percussion. The only constant is drama.

“Beats are all about getting into a zone and staying there,” David explains. “To me, melody and harmony are the interesting part.” Increasingly, he says, Audiac takes its inspiration from Romantic and classical music. But there is nothing classical about their sound. Audiac has made a clear commitment to keeping art rock firmly straddled on the cutting edge of technology. As Greg Lake so eloquently put it, “You can change the world, but if you lose control, they will take away your T-shirt.”

Audiac’s live shows are legendary. As a performer, Wiemer melts women’s hearts and makes men’s balls cramp to the size of hazelnuts, a boon to bartenders everywhere. Only the necessity of staring fixedly at a bewildering array of sound generators saves David from sharing the audience’s fate: As his wife can attest, his T-shirt never leaves his body. The last time I saw Wiemer, I think he was wearing a stiff, transparent vinyl blouson over his erect nipples. But I can’t really say because I went blind that night. That is, if you get a chance to see where Audiac’s music comes from, don’t miss it. Headphones only tell half the story.

AUDREY SUMNER

Tea-Snuggery Show #63 w/ Threeemoji (*Landau) - 23-Jul-24 | Threads

"The majority of the ordinary population does not understand what is really happening. And they don't even understand that they don't understand!"
-Noam Chomsky-

Welcome to Tea-Snuggery #63 with a psychedelic-influenced krautrock mix that will send us tumbling but tasty into the apocalypse! Listen with care! q:

Playing tracks by Jac Berrocal + David Fenech + Vincent Epplay feat Cosey Fanni Tutti and Jah Wobble, Famous Forgotten Artist, Meridian Brothers, DJ Koze, Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance, Mary Ocher, DJ Linus, Die Wilde Jagd and much more.

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Weird and wonderful is the name of the game - a musical journey out from the Tea-Snuggery - way off mainstream: impulsive, spontaneous, demanding - hopefully never boring!

:(:/:) aka ThreeEmoji, is Tom Bossert. Born in 1976, his musical journey quickly led him to electronics. From Kraut Rock and bands like Cluster, Can and Kraftwerk in his youth, to the early 90’s with the start of the techno movement and club culture in Germany. His sets have always pulled on this progression, never purely one thing or the other.
One of his major influences is DJ Marcelle from Amsterdam, and her way of breaking conventions. Music is a world phenomenon and so its output should reflect this. Just like a nervous Zen master on tenterhooks, waiting for the very last sound, impulsive but deeply circumspect, it should bring together everything in a Jackson Pollock-like manner. For Tom, spontaneity and improvisation are always more important than perfection.

The Tea-Snuggery wants to invite the listeners to discover new music and artists from all over the world – enjoy and listen with care! q:
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Kurios und lustig, vielleicht nicht das, was mancher unter großer Kunst versteht, aber wer immer nur große Dinge haben will, muss sich wohl oder übel in eine Mücke verwandeln. Das wars für heute, schönen Abend und auf Wiedersehen!

Google translated ;) ...

Étrange et drôle, peut-être pas ce que certains moyenne par grand art, mais qui veut avoir seulement de grandes choses doivent se transformer en un moustique bon gré mal gré. C'est tout pour aujourd'hui, bonne soirée et à bientôt!

Strange and funny, maybe not what some mean by great art, but who wants to have only great things must transform into a mosquito willy-nilly. That's it for today, nice evening and goodbye!

奇怪而有趣的，也许不是有些意思了伟大的艺术，但谁愿意只有伟大的事情必须转变成蚊无可奈何。这就是它的今天，美好的夜晚，再见！

sorry, i accidentally deleted my account -  so i'm having to start all over again. mx

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