zeitkratzer . Carsten Nicolai / Terre Thaemlitz / Keiji Haino . electronics
CD zkr 0003: 3CD-Box including
cd zkr0004 || cd zkr0005 || cd zkr0006 || special textbook

Box Cover zkr 0003 - 3CD-Box including
cd zkr0004 || cd zkr0005 || cd zkr0006 || special textbook

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zeitkratzer records releases a 3CD-Box to document zeitkratzer’s cooperations with electronic musicians over nearly a decade. zeitkratzer has not only produced these collaborations but also played these new compositions all over Europe. The recordings were made in Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Austria.

Carsten Nicolai, Terre Thaemlitz, Keiji Haino: three heroes of electronic music. All the three are presented here for the first time ever with compositions for an instrumental ensemble. Zeitkratzer worked with Carsten Niclao now for almost an decade, the same with Terre Thaemlitz and played different concerts with Keiji Haino. Find more information on the extra release sheets for each CD.

The 3-CD-Box includes a special textbook with extensive texts in German and English: Diedrich Diederichsen about authorship; Elliott Sharp: “zeitkratzer and the Myth of the End of Instruments”; Michael Iber about zeitkratzer’s unusual way of musical notation. Three essays about the consequences of the ensemble’s radical work!

This Box has been made possible by Deutscher Musikrat

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zeitkratzer & Carsten Nicolai
zeitkratzer records zkr004
Barcode: 881390642427
Distribution MDM # 64242

This CD documents the cooperation between zeitkratzer and Carsten Nicolai, started nearly a decade ago; a cooperation between an avantgarde ensemble and a non-academic electronic musician. The electronic music of Carsten Nicolai - partly being of even aseptic clearness and quality – suddenly becomes sensual and physical through zeitkratzer’s instrumental sounds.
Inversely, zeitkratzer sounds different too: in „5 min“ the musicians play only electric sound generators: humming of plugs, the peeping of the synchronised zeitkratzer-clocks, white noise, TV cheeping at 10 kHz. „Synchron Bitwave“, the latest piece is the most sensual and warmest; no other sounds than a small third and its electric derivates, finally leading to high, dabbed string spiccati. While  „c1“ transfers electronically conceived asymmetrical loops into a  19/16th rhythm. A strange undertow results, partly because of the pieces’ grounding with merging split sounds. Here, Carsten Nicolai virtually becomes metaphysical, perhaps even romantic…

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zeitkratzer & Terre Thaemlitz
zeitkratzer records zkr005
Barcode: 881390642526
Distribution MDM # 64252

Terre Thaemlitz developed the present pieces for and with zeitkratzer. The starting points were Thaemlitz’ releases „means from an end“ and „couture cosmetique“, which present him as an electro acoustic composer with an amazing sensibility for sound and harsh cutting techniques. This is especially evident in the pieces „Sloppy 42nds“ or „Turtleneck“, and moreover, Thamlitz’ filtering techniques are transformed into a complex, nearly surrealistic instrumental sound in „Superbonus“.
Thaemlitz’ provenance as a New York underground DJ is recalled, as well as his political engagement in „Down Home Kami-Sakunobe“ and „Hobo Train“. On this CD you will probably find the most Pop oriented music - including references to dance and  house - zeitkratzer has ever released!

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zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino
zeitkratzer records zkr006
Barcode: 881390642625
Distribution MDM # 64262

The Berliner Zeitung wrote about zeitkratzer’s cooperation with Keiji Haino, one of the most renowned japanese noise artist: „the result was mind-blowing. Haino made music on the guitar and on the drums, on electronic devices, on two Theremins and with his wunderfully changeable tenor; zeitkratzer infolded him, pushed him away, embedded him in noise and carried him through the sound space like on atomising waves. Only one thing did not exist: the reconciliation between the soloist and his ensemble, which would have denied the differences in traditions and styles; The greatness of the sound, the richness of his textures was a result purely of the contrast and its dynamic.” zeitkratzer continued the cooperation with Keiji Haino and performed with him also at Donaufestival Krems. This CD contains the music from the legendary Volksbühne concert – ending in standing ovations.

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