 KOMMANDO RAUMSCHIFF ZITRONE
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
[Quincunx, www.quincunxsoundrecordings.com]
How do you take a tune, stretch it out and work from its simple melody to
make an album of improvised music? Simple. You put clarinet player Kai
Fagaschinski and laptop/electronics guru Christof Kurzmann in one room and
let them go wild. Their duet which goes by the name Kommando Raumschiff
Zitrone [Command Spaceship Lemon] works off quite a sweat throughout the
duration of this record. What starts off with a lovely rendition of Roberta
Flack's "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" on "Roberta", sees Fagaschinski
improvise along Flack with such honest beauty, you'd think the entire record
would head into pop music territory. [In fact, this is the finest virtual
duet since The Orb re-made "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules
From the Centre of the Ultraworld" with Minnie Ripperton almost two decades
ago.] But no, wait! Less than two minutes into the track, things change
pace and quite rapidly too. While Kurzmann switches into overdrive with
lloopp software that resembles a haunted church organ, his partner blows
extended lines into the mouthpiece. The sounds are quite lovely and the duo
rolls on to other musical territories. By the time we get to "Aisha" [all
tracks are named after women], landscape becomes quite abstract. While
Kurzmann develops a soft spot for tender-spoken drone, Fagaschinski delivers
subtle spittle into the mouthpiece, interspersed with occasional bird-call
sounds. Personal favourite is the extended "Chow", which runs for 17
minutes. During its course, the track goes from subtlety of soft-spoken
clarinet ruffles, supplemented with horse-hoof sounds emanating from
Kurzmann, to drone-induced section where both men play clarinets, finally
crashing in a static-free concoction of fervour and majestic sound. The
whole record ends on another high note with a reprise of "Roberta". As Miss
Flack sings her classic tune in the background, the foreground is occupied
with intense clarinet melodies matching the vocalist's prowess. Can pop
music and eai exist hand-in-hand? In this case, the answer is a resounding
yes!
- Tom Sekowski
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RECENZJE
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+ Pharaoh Overload - Live in Suomi Finland
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+ Unfolding - Freak Out Party: How to Blow Your Mind
+ Susan Christie - Paint a Lady
+ Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch
+ Carl Craig - The Album Formerly known As ...
+ Funkstörung - Appendix
+ Skinny Puppy - Mythmaker
+ Boogy Bytes Vol.3 - Mixer By Modeselektor
+ Adult. - Why Bother?
+ Stewart Walker - Concentricity
+ Sleep Well - Chapter III
+ Anthony Rother - Moderntronic
+ 5YR: Five Years Of Regularity - Mixed By Jaumetic
+ Dr. J present 1 Love - Neophilia
+ LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
+ International Deejay Gigolos 10 - Presented By DJ Hell
+ The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
+ Electronicat - Chez Toi
+ Dirty Doering - Saubermann
+ Matthew Dear - Deserter
+ Computer Incarnations For World Peace
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+ HAL RAMMEL - Like Water Tightly Wound
+ MARTYN BATES - Your Jewled Footsteps
+ TERMINAL SOUND SYSTEM - Compressor
+ ROBERTO OPALIO - The Last Night of the Angel of Glass, Vol. I & II
+ THE STRANGLERS - Anthology
+ DAX PIERSON / ROBERT HORTON - Pablo Feldman Sun Riley
>> KOMMANDO RAUMSCHIFF ZITRONE - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
+ ZU & NOBUKAZU TAKEMURA - Identifications with the Enemy, A Key to the Underworld
+ YELLOW 6 - Painted Sky
+ CHRIS WATSON / BJ NILSEN - Storm
+ FENNESZ - Endless Summer
+ NINE HORSES - Money For All
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+ AURAH - Etherea Borealis
+ THE STYLE COUNCIL - Live at the Full House Rock Show DVD / BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - Live E=MC2 DVD
+ DANIEL MENCHE - Animality
+ ANDREA CENTAZZO MITTELEUROPA ORCHESTRA - The Complete Recordings 1980 - 1981 - The Complete Recordings 1982 - 1983
+ DAVID TOOP - Sound Body
+ ASTRO & SUZUKI JUNZO - Cosmic Blues Experience / SUZUKI JUNZO - November.10.2001
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+ SOFTWAR - Softwar
+ THE ETERNALS - Heavy International
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WYWIADY / RELACJE
+ Writing rhythms is easy - rozmowa z Stewart'em Walker'em
+ Regularity is the secret - wywiad z Jaumetic'em [Regular label]
+ Szybsze bicie serca - rozmowa z Patrycją Hefczyńską aka DJ Patrisią [Husky]
+ My fire is burning - wywiad z Hell'em [Gigolo Records]
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