The Breath of the Hydra
by TIBETAN RED - THE OVAL LANGUAGE - DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE
A three way collaboration between the Germany based THE OVAL LANGUAGE, the Catalan TIBETAN RED and DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE living in Rennes, France. In an on and off exchange since end of 2016, a continuous exchange of audio material, ideas and suggestions. Salvador Francesch and Guido Hübner meet again after long years at
the occasion of a concert of the latter one at the LEM festival in Barcelona. Since then working together became evident as was the choice of including Klaus-Peter John with whom several collaborations had already seen the light of day through the years, most notably the homage to the late Carlfriedrich Claus ‘sprechzimmern’ with RLW as well as a 2x CD collection of collaborations on the notorious Monochrome Vison label in Moscow.
The association of their different sound worlds and even more specifically their extremely particular fashions of creating them was meant to merge and melt in a whole able to blur clear distinctions with only an occasional sneaking out of a head and a hissing tongue amongst many that takes the scent and direction respectively in the brooding heat that forges shape and carves direction.
TIBETAN RED Salvador Francesch is a catalan-canadian painter, sculptor and sound explorer who lives in La Garrotxa, Girona. He has released 5 CDs in his Tibetan Red project. His work pursues experimentation with sounds that seek to convey some aspects of his interest in Eastern rituals and ceremonial art.
THE OVAL LANGUAGE Klaus-Peter John is from Leipzig, the project started as a trio in the early 80’s working to turn into his solo project with sound, noise works in open spaces, photography, installations and land-art informed projects in which mainly the voice is put center stage.
DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE started in the early 80’s in Berlin with cassette production and performative concerts, exhibitions and installations to which a D.I.Y. approach of a lot of customized equipment became inherent accompanying an interest in several areas of science and technology. Moved to Barcelona then France, producing many recordings and performance works.
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Review
LOOP
German Attenuation Circuit label run by Sascha aka EMERGE, has released a new album in which three sound artists of electronic experimental music collaborate: German artist The Oval Language, Catalan Tibetan Red and Das Synthetische Mischgewebe who lives in Rennes, France.
"The Breath of the Hydra" is the result of exchanging audio files since the end of 2016.
Salvador Francesch is a Catalan-Canadian painter, sculptor and sound explorer who lives in La Garrotxa, Girona. He has published five CD's with his Tibetan Red project.
Klaus-Peter John aka The Oval Language is from Leipzig and works in noise, open space, photography, installations and informed land-art projects where the voice takes center stage. Guido Hübner aka Das Synthetische Mischgewebe started in the early 80's in Berlin with the production of cassettes and performance concerts, exhibitions and installations.
This album consists of a single track of almost 52 minutes long which unfurls two faces. One, the sound is almost imperceptible and silence plays a relevant role. In the other, drones and noises are the background of a proposal with a strong organic character and consequently, gasping and buried voices are barely heard and spit out an indecipherable language. The clicks near the middle of the track look like whips that are followed by screams which are in the distance. All this takes place in a dark ambience that well represents the history of the Hydra.
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Review
Review
VITAL WEEKLY
This is a three-way collaboration between old friends. Klaus Peter-John, the man behind The Oval Language and Guido Hübner, Das Synthestische Mischgewebe, have an ongoing collaboration for many years; I think I saw them in concert in the late 90s. There was also a double CD by them for Monochrome Vision; not sure if that was reviewed here. Hübner and Salvador Francesch, also known as Tibetan Red, met years ago and recently again, and then decided t work on a collaboration. The great thing is that the cover doesn't give any clues as to who did the final mix; if at all one was responsible for that. The voices we hear, both processed and unprocessed, are courtesy of John, as he's known for that in his work. Whatever else is going is not as easy to trace to individual contributions. Some of the more drone-based, processed field recordings, I would think are by Tibetan Red, which, again so I assume, means that the more collage-like approach to the sound material is by Hübner. The final sixteen or so minutes would be exemplary of this collaboration; the voice of Peter processed Francesch style and slowly getting chopped up, Hübner area of expertise. All of this with the usual disclaimer: I might be all wrong. Another approach could have been that there are various sections here and that each worked on a section, which was later, stuck together into this one-hour long piece of music. The section that starts around ten minutes would be a perfect Hübner concept: cutting in and out sounds, processed voices, and drones/feedback to provide a backbone. All three composers here share a love for the methods of musique concrète; cutting and pasting with sound to tell a story and that is what they do best here. Regardless of who did what, they go for the result and that is something that is a top product. They work their way through all the material at a careful pace, not fast, not slow. There is very little that overstays its welcome or feels rushed. There is some great flair used in creating this music and altogether a great collaboration, free of ego! (FdW)
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