MAEROR TRI — Ambient Dreams
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Wiederveröffentlichung des zweiten "offiziellen" Tapes von M.T. von 1990, welches damals auf dem Cassetten-Label von Andreaz Vogel (aka MOHR) erschien, - und zwar in einer winzigen Auflage von 50 Stück, alle mit individuellem Foto-Cover. Die Stücke auf "Ambient dreams" basieren ausschliesslich auf effektierten Feldaufnahmen, roh und doch schon atmosphärisch as hell! Neues, edles Cover und liner-notes von Andreaz Vogel!
"Black Series 34 - Ed. of 500 numbered copies. Oh, the roaring silence! Maëror Tri has knack for gathering simple sonic ingredients, simmering them in a jabberwocky with special electro-sauces, and serving up an ear smacking meal that tastes great even as leftovers. So, let’s get to the meat of the matter... “Ambient Dreams” is, surprise!,.. an ambient recording. By ambient I mean "like the hazy wails of windswept souls as seen under failing fluorescent lighting." Please turn your books to the chapter entitled "Nurse With Wound-Homotopy To Marie" for related reading. MT's jittery electronic torpedoes are juxtaposed by silent wakes and expatriated metallic swirls. Pregnant and cavernous (see also Lustmord) sounds wander back and forth leaving trails of lingering, tonal machine noise. It's like that great and variable symphony provided by the refrigerator when conversing with the radiator late at night. Robotic whales calling to each other in a pool of motor oil. Music to grease the chasse of your dreams! Please file in experimental or rock but NOT NEW AGE because Kenny G wouldn't like it!" [label info]
" 1988
ZNS TAPES had finished its first year of existence, with two compilation-tapes as the result of a very exciting journey through the experimental tape-scene of these days. I contacted hundreds of bands and projects, I tried each and every address I got from somewhere, I wrote (by hand, in this uncomputerized times) excessive letters to people which I didn’t know, neither the persons nor their music. I was drunk by recognizing that there are so many fellow music-enthusiastics who are bored and disgusted by mainstream music, the horror soundscape of the 80s disco-trash and bombastic rock-operas. Everyone could do some music, everyone could publish music, and everyone was able to perform live. Not in public, not in a semi-democratic attitude as punkrock-bands; there was a certain spirit of elite and enlightment in this circle; strange enough to divide yourself from the mainstream, tolerant enough to build up a friendly community.
One of the addresses I got in this year was the one of Stefan Knappe. This Latin band-name and the hope to find again a very special sort of sound encouraged me to write again; to write about my label, to ask for their band, for their sound, for their backround. And I met a highly motivated person who sent me a tape with an exciting track, called ‘ecstatic singing’, later used on my third compilation as final track, as the perfect end.
I met him and his two musical comrades, I loved their music and I decided to love them too, instead of their neo-punk-hippie understatement. It was quite interesting to get to know these guys; their wild party habits and their absolute serious relation with their own music. We liked each other personally, I liked their sound, they liked my politics of releasing tapes without any commercial aspect, and so we came together with the plan of publishing a tape of MAEROR TRI on ZNS.
1989
They sent me the master-tape of ‘ambient dreams’, together with 50 different photographs as the artwork for this limited edition. The flickering sound with its strong mystical, but never artificial, mental appeal made me really glad. Its stunning and relaxed drones were far out, still today.
2001
Stefan asked me to remaster the ‘ambient dreams’- tape for a re-release on CD.
And here we are.
Andreaz Vogel, Bochum, Germany. November 2002.
ZNS memorial site: http://zns.gewalt-am-objekt.org" [liner-notes]
"If there is one band from the 80s and 90s that released their work on cassettes that is now truly famous it's no doubt Maeror Tri. I was amongst their first fans collecting from almost day one. While not playing cassettes as much as I did or should, I never got rid of the old Maeror Tri tapes. They are perhaps the only band in the world that have all of their tapes released as CDs - not CDRs. To be very honest, I don't recall 'Ambient Dreams' that well, but the fact that it had a real picture stuck onto it, sticked in my mind. All of the sounds 'originated from natural ambient sources' it says on the cover. It will remain a mystery how Maeror Tri conceived their music, even when I saw them play live a couple of times. An accordion, some junk for percussion and lots of sound effects - things were always that simple, but the proof is in the pudding, not the ingredients. Maeror Tri, certainly in 1988, didn't have access to a studio or refined recording techniques, but 'Ambient Dreams', almost twenty years later sounds still as fresh as it did. Mysterious clouds of sound pass by the listener and they create outer-worldly atmospheres. Ambient music but with a healthy doses of experimentalism - and all quite dark. We can only assume that it's this quality that appeals to some many latter day fans of Maeror Tri and its successor Troum. A great work, still after all these years. And finally the tape can go to Ebay (anyone?)" [FdW / Vital Weekly]
"Black Series 34 - Ed. of 500 numbered copies. Oh, the roaring silence! Maëror Tri has knack for gathering simple sonic ingredients, simmering them in a jabberwocky with special electro-sauces, and serving up an ear smacking meal that tastes great even as leftovers. So, let’s get to the meat of the matter... “Ambient Dreams” is, surprise!,.. an ambient recording. By ambient I mean "like the hazy wails of windswept souls as seen under failing fluorescent lighting." Please turn your books to the chapter entitled "Nurse With Wound-Homotopy To Marie" for related reading. MT's jittery electronic torpedoes are juxtaposed by silent wakes and expatriated metallic swirls. Pregnant and cavernous (see also Lustmord) sounds wander back and forth leaving trails of lingering, tonal machine noise. It's like that great and variable symphony provided by the refrigerator when conversing with the radiator late at night. Robotic whales calling to each other in a pool of motor oil. Music to grease the chasse of your dreams! Please file in experimental or rock but NOT NEW AGE because Kenny G wouldn't like it!" [label info]
" 1988
ZNS TAPES had finished its first year of existence, with two compilation-tapes as the result of a very exciting journey through the experimental tape-scene of these days. I contacted hundreds of bands and projects, I tried each and every address I got from somewhere, I wrote (by hand, in this uncomputerized times) excessive letters to people which I didn’t know, neither the persons nor their music. I was drunk by recognizing that there are so many fellow music-enthusiastics who are bored and disgusted by mainstream music, the horror soundscape of the 80s disco-trash and bombastic rock-operas. Everyone could do some music, everyone could publish music, and everyone was able to perform live. Not in public, not in a semi-democratic attitude as punkrock-bands; there was a certain spirit of elite and enlightment in this circle; strange enough to divide yourself from the mainstream, tolerant enough to build up a friendly community.
One of the addresses I got in this year was the one of Stefan Knappe. This Latin band-name and the hope to find again a very special sort of sound encouraged me to write again; to write about my label, to ask for their band, for their sound, for their backround. And I met a highly motivated person who sent me a tape with an exciting track, called ‘ecstatic singing’, later used on my third compilation as final track, as the perfect end.
I met him and his two musical comrades, I loved their music and I decided to love them too, instead of their neo-punk-hippie understatement. It was quite interesting to get to know these guys; their wild party habits and their absolute serious relation with their own music. We liked each other personally, I liked their sound, they liked my politics of releasing tapes without any commercial aspect, and so we came together with the plan of publishing a tape of MAEROR TRI on ZNS.
1989
They sent me the master-tape of ‘ambient dreams’, together with 50 different photographs as the artwork for this limited edition. The flickering sound with its strong mystical, but never artificial, mental appeal made me really glad. Its stunning and relaxed drones were far out, still today.
2001
Stefan asked me to remaster the ‘ambient dreams’- tape for a re-release on CD.
And here we are.
Andreaz Vogel, Bochum, Germany. November 2002.
ZNS memorial site: http://zns.gewalt-am-objekt.org" [liner-notes]
"If there is one band from the 80s and 90s that released their work on cassettes that is now truly famous it's no doubt Maeror Tri. I was amongst their first fans collecting from almost day one. While not playing cassettes as much as I did or should, I never got rid of the old Maeror Tri tapes. They are perhaps the only band in the world that have all of their tapes released as CDs - not CDRs. To be very honest, I don't recall 'Ambient Dreams' that well, but the fact that it had a real picture stuck onto it, sticked in my mind. All of the sounds 'originated from natural ambient sources' it says on the cover. It will remain a mystery how Maeror Tri conceived their music, even when I saw them play live a couple of times. An accordion, some junk for percussion and lots of sound effects - things were always that simple, but the proof is in the pudding, not the ingredients. Maeror Tri, certainly in 1988, didn't have access to a studio or refined recording techniques, but 'Ambient Dreams', almost twenty years later sounds still as fresh as it did. Mysterious clouds of sound pass by the listener and they create outer-worldly atmospheres. Ambient music but with a healthy doses of experimentalism - and all quite dark. We can only assume that it's this quality that appeals to some many latter day fans of Maeror Tri and its successor Troum. A great work, still after all these years. And finally the tape can go to Ebay (anyone?)" [FdW / Vital Weekly]