Mort Aux Vaches: Random Dilettants - Reviews

Cover Random Dilettanta Mort Aux Vaches/ Staalplaat - !SEE THIS RECORD!
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""Random" as the suggested CD playing, "Dilettantes" because no one is playing his own real instrument here. Zeitkratzer's philosophy is a hybrid of XXI century chamber music and total improvisation - more about textural landscapes than melody, counterpoint or technique (which certainly they have no shortage of...). Recently they've been highly praised, getting eligible for the upper echelon of contemporary avantgarde; eclecticism is their forte, as this record shows: their movements are decise and economic, looking for an object or a point to observe rather than an energy dispersion. The ensemble pays no lip service to artistic trends - they look to create their own way to freedom of expression. This music occurs right before your ears: it could sound shrinking at times, then it expandes in sudden outbursts, invading your space with calcolous lumps and mercurial provocations." (Massimo Ricci, Touching Extreme, 12/2003)
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"For the Staalplaat-label Mort Aux Vaches Zeitkratzer realized a special project: Random Dilettants, now out on CD: as a tribute to the label-name, every musician only melked the instruments of the other musicians in the group, instruments he does not know to play correctly. What came out, is a collection of 50 really differentiated sounds, to get hooked on.They are arranged as a piece, but can also be played and understood as a home-sound-installation, playing the CD with random or shuffle-funktion. So Zeitkratzer comes here with its best quality: the sound-fetishism. 'Zeitkratzer's sound is sensational!' as the German newspaper 'Tageszeitung' wrote, ... and respect to the used media: a CD that will provide the listeners their own sound-installation. This CD should be played with random or shuffle function." (forcedexposure)
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