Roedelius

Saw the Cincinnati date last night. Very mellow show (save for the opener) in an enormous converted warehouse/brewery space that was pretty fantastic. Crappy weather, pretty small crowd. I dug Xambuca, though I wasn't into it as much when he started bringing in electronic beats. I like my drone beat-less, thank you. Roedelius played probably a 45/50-minute set (kinda tranced out for half of it) that was a nice mix of pretty quiet, ambient, oscillating clicks & synths; and pretty untreated piano. Last 15 minutes was unadorned piano. I dug it. Came away with two (signed!) LPs (Self Portrait VI re-issue; Wasser im Wind o.o.p. edition), and a nice conversation with the man himself afterwards during which he was amazed we'd driven 2 hours to see him play, and were still working in the morning. Then we bid him goodnight before taking up too much time, and to our surprise, my girlfriend and I both got the (customarily European?) hug-and-cheek-kiss goodnight. Definitely a great night for restoring yer faith in artists...I blame playing so much rock-and-roll for feeling jaded/burnt-out 90% of the time.

Anyways...go see the tour. Buy a bunch of records (they take cards via smartphone scanner).

You guys are insane! The synthesizers on Zuckerzeit, Selbstportraits 1 & 2, etc, totally make the records... It's the piano stuff I find harder to get into.

^^^ Exactly.

I've just been completely obsessed with him since this show -- the Selbsportraits in particular. I wonder if it's worth doing a poll of them. BTW, would I be right to think that Flieg Vogel Fleige is the fifth volume?

Yes. wenn is vol 4, flieg is vol 5

Clarke - I agree on Zuckerzeit, haven't heard SP2 yet. I just think that in general I prefer solo piano over solo synth stuff. Even better when he's alternating between synths and piano like in Sowiesoso.

The venue tonight is two blocks from the site of Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, where police have just used tear gas and sound cannons on three to five thousand protesters.

Must remind one of the years immediately preceeding Baader-Meinhof.

the last time there were riot cops in Oakland, Malcolm Mooney was playing a few blocks away from the action.

Shit just follows the dude like a big black cloud.

Went to the protest 9pm-ish, about an hour after the tear gas.

Had quieted down a great deal, still roughly about a thousand people milling around. Took some shots of people sitting crosslegged staring down about fifty policemen behind their barricade of Frank Ogawa Park.

Went to wonderful show.

Listened to music while friend read whispered aloud twitter reports of the police's second round of tear gas around 11:15pm, over incredibly quiet duet by Xambuca & Roedelius.

Could not hear the helicopters from inside

i'm going tonight, are you?

how could you even ask that

apparently it's his birthday

saw him last night in l.a. @ the echo. good enough show, but the echo is such a bullshit, unprofessionally run venue. at the echoplex downstairs they had a bass-heavy electro band who started about halfway through his set and basically ruined it. he played on in reasonably good spirits for another twenty minutes before he was done, but it pretty much sucked.

At the DC show, my friend commented that he thought they could have done a better job booking him at better clubs. Sounds like you agree.

yeah the echo was a bad choice. the crowd was great and cool for the most part, but between the bass interrupting his set (he stopped and said "what is zis? fuck! i don't even want to play!" - albeit in a very charming fashion) and the sound of the hand dryers in the women's bathroom right next to the stage intruding on his music periodically, it was kind of disrespectful to his aesthetic. like i said, the joint is run poorly ime, but this was sort of a last straw for me.

really enjoying this

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just got into the "Offene Turen" album. does he do anymore like this? it reminds me of the goofier parts of Jardin Au Fou and occassionally goes into darker territory. probably one of the best I've heard from him.

http://www.bureau-b.com/coleroedelius.php

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sounds pretty good so far!
http://soundcloud.com/lloydcole/sets/cole-roedelius-pre-release/

Wtf

Not that surprising, considering Cole's Plastic Wood ambient-ish record from a few years back.

What next, Pat Kane & Mani Neumeier?

Is there ever a bad time to listen on repeat to 'Jardin au Fou'? I think not

good idea

Let's revive this just because.

Offene Türen is my latest discovery. Offbeat would be a suitable description.

That Roedelius Schneider album from last year was very good. There was another collaboration, also from last year, with Morgan Fisher, which I was less enthusiastic about.

ppl dissing the selbsportrait series on the aphex twin thread = thumbs down.

2nd Roedelius Schneider record 'Tiden' is fairly good. not much in the way of chords & memorable tunes but nice to hear Roedelius piano & riffs & noodles over some good rhythms again

the really truly fantastic new one out of the 5 or 10 he put out last year was the fourth Qluster CD 'Lauschen'. the first three had some good textures & sounds but were maybe a bit tentative, but 'Lauschen' adds a third member and they really focus & turn a lot of corners. still kind of wish the group were not called Qluster but it's my favorite from him in many years.

ppl dissing the selbsportrait series on the aphex twin thread = thumbs down.

I would have thought that 'Diary of the Unforgotten' had mined the last of the usable 73-78 tapes, as a lot of what's on that was fairly minimal but oh man this new box has treasures

http://exclaim.ca/News/roedelius_celebrates_80th_birthday_with_tape_archive_box_set_electronic_music_comp

Which one? Seems like they are releasing two...

talking about the archival box, which is all unreleased (apart from the 'Watussi + ludicrous guitar solo' fragment which he used for a moment in the 'Homage du Forst' suite on 'Diary of the Unforgotten'. the single disc Tim Gane comp looks like a pretty good listen but I already own all of these albums twice over.

on the archive: some of these sketches never got a final melodic layer, but I'm far gone enough that a track with just the drum machine + farfisa percolating chords going for 3-8 minutes is already wonderful listening. all the selbstportrait albums pridefully kept in the occasional off-note, but the tracks on the more tentative side here still have some beautiful tunes. some of it is even more minimal than the last two tracks on 'Selbstportrait III', and some of it is more noisy / chaotic / abstract than 'Durch Die Wuste'

shamefully expensive box and probably only for the real diehards, but if you're one of them, you will not be let down by the content

Yikes, $160 for 3 discs is pretty rough.

That said, I am enjoying these records all over again.

I'm guessing it'll all be on Spotify. They have the Tim Gane Sky Records compilation up already, and it really works as an album despite skewing towards many of the deeper weirder cuts. Somehow all you have to do is put 'The Belldog' in the middle of the sequence and even the 'Curosium' and Beerbohm album cuts end up seeming like pop. This music never ever wears out.

hopefully it'll be on leonardo music journal too

Happy Birthday! <3

5 days old and already a fan ;)

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Well done, on both counts! The new Lloyd Cole curated career overview ("Kollektion 02") is excellent as well.

selfiespotrait

rip

whoops i had too many tabs open - rip on the wrong one :(

Don't do that!!!

u dick

Two new albums in the last couple of months.

Qluster: Tasten (Spotify) - minimal piano stuff. The press materials position this as "don't forget who was doing this sort of stuff long before Nils Frahm!!!" and it sorta sounds that way too.

Roedelius Muraglia: Ubi Bene (Spotify) - Like Qluster and Roedelius Schneider, he's once again collaborating with another younger guy. I appreciate that Roedelius sees the value in staying connected to the newer generation of artists. I much prefer this to the Qluster album. It's more varied, moving between electro, ambient, and piano pieces. It sounds somewhat like people Roedelius has influenced rather than the man himself - kinda Mouse on Mars-y in spots, which I'm pretty OK with.

thanks for letting me know about Ubi Bene. it's pleasant. I like how easily Achim has taken to iOS apps. favorite ones of the recent crop are Lauschen and Lazy Arc with Tim. the last two tracks on the latter are really something.

I don't love all of Ubi Bene - first few tracks are great but some of the latter, quieter stuff is pleasant at best, maybe a little hokey. But - "Summer Breeze, Turning" is a gorgeous guitar number.

This man is a treasure - and one of the sweetest personally influential artists I've had the pleasure to meet and talk with. I'm glad he's not tinkering away in some sort of obscurity. Look forward to listening to these new ones!

@dark_shark: Brian Eno: For Achim, September 3-6, 2015, Berlin #HansJoachimRoedelius https://t.co/be3fgR5P2f http://t.co/BL2ni2uMCf