great starting groove, brooding and spacious.

space, and peace and wonderful things for my ears

Everything I have heard here is utterly marvelous.

This is absolutely mesmerizing-I love it!

Takes me to places where I have never been.

my favorite sounds in a playlist..with no special order..newest additions at the end.
a new volume every 101 songs. this is the second volume.

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♫ Laboratorium is a second profile of a well-known German experimental band (showing their group improvised music, working under a different flag)

This site is mainly about film music & improvised music.

B Vector (live / Kunsthaus Rhenania)

Live @ Blue Note, Amsterdam, 2013



Nic TVG avoids the Drum & Bass clichés and unearths a barrage of unheard breaks for the rhythmic template on this, his debut album. He demonstrates a delicate touch in his manipulations of this material on the intro track “A Mouse Among Monsters” and also a maniacal tendency in the insanely chopped nature of “Friday Nights With Heather” at the death of proceedings. In between, there are many facets of Nic's repertoire to explore.

There is an unmistakable free-jazz theme running throughout this album and so, it is no surprise to see Nic pay tribute to the great Charles Gayle and his on-stage alter ego “Streets” on “The Clown”. The track encapsulates the sad nature of Gayle's existence as a homeless person in New York in the 70's and 80's but also his devious musical nature, evident in the way the rhythm steps in and out of its regular meter and switches between a number of different percussive palettes at a moments notice.

The free-jazz influence is to the fore again on “Playing Drums As Pads” where the most unlikely and unwieldy drum-kit patterns are pushed together and somehow made coherent and compelling. “Lose The World On An Excuse” promises to remain a little more regular initially but the pulsing kicks of the intro soon give way to a whirlwind of drums, pitching bass notes and off-key violins for maybe the zaniest tune on the album!

“I'm Sorry I Puked On Your Dress” sounds like Jazz and Drum & Bass meeting Tchaikovsky's “Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy”. You could be listening to the future of ballet right here.

Moving on, the title track “Then I Disappear” is all intense drums, flitting bass plucks and looping horns. The reversed keys introduced as the track progresses develop a more reflective air which leads nicely into “Out Of No More” - probably the most introspective track on the album.

Perking things up is “Sitting In The Crosswalk” which forsakes the jazz overtones to flex a more recognisable Drum & Bass influence amid an uplifting autumnal ambience. The D&B strains are also much in evidence on “Let Yourself Be Unknown”. Crunchy amens cart-wheel among stark, sustained atmospherics but eventually gave way to a wistful synth riff before the beats and bass broodily return.

“She Looks Like Marisa Tomei” is interesting for its title but also for the way the rhythms are occasionally ratcheted up a notch from the steady kick and hi-hat interchanges by the injection of some rowdy funk drums. The low-end bass and stretched wind instruments work particularly well together in this beautiful blend of breakbeat and blues.

“My Life As A Hairless Aardvark” might just beat the stiff competition for best track title on the album. It also might just feature the most obtuse rhythm, which is saying something!

And so to the maniacal chopping of “Friday Nights With Heather”... talk about going out with a bang ! ... and then, I disappear.

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Nic TVG, “Then I Disappear” :: SUBTLE005CD - Tracklisting

1. A Mouse Among Monsters
2. The Clown
3. Playing Drums As Pads
4. Lose The World On An Excuse
5. I'm Sorry I Puked On Your Dress (Album Version)
6. Then I Disappear
7. Out Of No More
8. Sitting In The Crosswalk
9. Let Yourself Be Unknown (Alternate Mix)
10. She Looks Like Marisa Tomei
11. My Life As A Hairless Aardvark
12. Friday Nights With Heather


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Nic TVG - Out Of No More :: SUBTLE005CD

The Sunken Hum Broadcast 253 - The Soulful Chicken Singers - 10 September 2013

Robert Frost:
„The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep
and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep“


7 To Keep

MICRONIE IV
The temple bell stops 
But the sound keeps coming
Out of the flowers.
Matusa Bashō

Haiku

music by Giovanni Sarani (http://micronie.net)
more info about Piano Day here: http://www.pianoday.org

Danza

I found Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Jesters just a bit to lacking in levity ... more like a march than a dance. So I felt I needed to play with it to make it more fitting for jesters. My jesters may be just a bit tipsy as they dance....

The High Off Key Orchestra - Jesting Drunk Dancers

Cosmische Verirrung

This piece starts with Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" (itself inspired by Mallarme's poem "The Afternoon of a Faun"). I distorted this in various ways and added forest sounds and vocalizations of various sorts (including laughter), also distorted in various ways. Here is the result.

The Feral Faun Fandango Band - Afternoon Of The Orgy Of The Faun

I started this with a couple of tracks recorded from live belly dance performances, including both the music and audience response. I distorted these in various ways. I added further distorted vocalizations. Then I added a couple of tracks, deep in the background, of distorted bongo beats. Perfect for that secret beatnik experimental dance party ....

Hidden Beatnik Orgy - Belly Love

Fiasco 3

Nachtwache 19.Oktober

Hades: New piece by Versuchsanordnung (2019) 

Christoph Uhlhaas: Piano & composer of "Hades" 
Christian Barthold: Guitar & fretless bass
Martin Schubert: Drums

Cover image: Christian Barthold
https://www.behance.net/Christian-Barthold

IndieMag about Versuchsanordnung:

"VERSUCHSANORDNUNG (GERMANY)
Haunting. Cinematic. Evocative. Versuchsanordnung is more of a collective rather than a band. Forming in 2006, the group has evaded categorization with their particular brand of atmospheric improvisations. Their name itself means experimental arrangement in German and they definitely live up to their name. They have a list of goals that read like a mission statement, including ‘to create sound impressions full of atmosphere aiming to paint pictures in your head.’ Goal archieved. Whether it is a film score or a freeform song, this group lives in a land where no soundscape is ever played the same way twice. Well worth hunting down."

"Die Band um den Kölner Grafiker & Musiker Christian Barthold geht nicht den geraden Weg. Hier hört man jazziges, Progressiv-Elemente, Post-Rock-Tristesse und immer wieder ganz unerwartete Sounds, die dann, wie in PONYHOF, zu einem Moll-Surf-Instrumental führen, das sehr an die wunderbaren Atomic Swing erinnert. Gemeinsam mit Jörg Düpjohann (dr.), Markus Blatzheim (bs) und dem Pianisten Christoph Uhlhaas ist ein sehr eigenwilliges Album gelungen, das neben der Musik auch für sein Verpackungsdesign die absolute Höchstwertung bekommt."
- Gitarre&Bass / Lothar Trampert, CD-Review / Versuchsanordnung: "Urlaub am Saundstrand" (Oct 21, 2011)

Versuchsanordnung says: Please meet us on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/versuchsanordnung

Final

Hades

Synapse Pt.1

Es knistert und groovt, dröhnt und säuselt in allen Ecken, wenn das KlangDrangOrchester auf eine seiner intensiven Klangreisen ins Gefühlsleben der Musiker und des Publikums geht. 

Das Frühjahr 2013 steht für das improvisierende KlangDrangOrchester ganz im Zeichen der Erforschung musikalischer Spielräume durch Reduktion. In der 3-teiligen Konzertreihe "Basics to go" untersucht Peter Wolf mit kompositorischen Rahmenkonzepten das Spektrum klangmalerischer Möglichkeiten für das Dirigat. Der Fokus richtet sich mithilfe reduzierter Zeichengruppen auf die verstärkte Wahrnehmung für Strukturen und Phänomene in gruppenimprovisatorischen Prozessen.

Der von Wolf verwendete Basiszeichensatz geht von den über 20-jährigen Erfahrungen des London Improvisers Orchestra aus. Dessen Zeichenrepertoire, das inzwischen weite Verbreitung gefunden hat, umfasst ca. 20 Gesten, die Aspekte wie Gruppen, Rhythmus, Funktionen, Feeling sowie dynamische und tonale Parameter steuern. Dazu kommen bei Wolf individuelle Zeichen und Absprachen sowie intuitiv zu erfassende, performative Zeichen, die über Körpersprache vermittelt werden.


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Laboratorium is the 2nd profile of a well-known experimental band from Germany. 
The one you're on is about pure Improvisation.
Hope you enjoy this as much as we do!

If you want to watch Filmtrailers we did music for: please choose the links "Music for Movies 1 & 2"

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Versuchsanordnung // laboratorium players (from 2006 until today):

Christoph Uhlhaas: piano, electronics

Christian Barthold: guitar, live-looping, microkorg, bass-ukulele, fretless bass, live-electronics, theremin, kalimba, percussion, flutes

Martin Schubert: drums & percussion

Wilfried Hanrath: our new man on fretless bass & fretless bass-ukulele

Markus Blatzheim (2006-2014): fretless bass, bass-synth, selfmade flutes, synth

Jörg Düpjohann (2006-2010): electric & acoustic drums & percussion

Joe Becker (R.I.P. 2016): drums, percussion

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For concert offers, CD's or anything else:
please contact Christian Barthold (Manager)
mailto: weaverofyourdreams@gmx.de

Thank you for your open ears!

B Vector (live / Kunsthaus Rhenania)

♫ Laboratorium

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