SCHAEFER, JANEK — In the last hour
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Prächtige Aufnahme vom November 2005 vom / für das Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Verschiedene Instrumentalquellen, found sounds von Vinylen und field-recordings ergänzen sich hier zu einer ruhigen, melancholischen Komposition...
"Probably it was noted before, but let's do it again: Janek Schaefer is a busy bee. Ever since he surfaced with his tri-phonic turntable, he expanded his work into the world of sound art, installations and more conceptual approaches to playing around with vinyl, CDs and such like. His latest album, 'In The Last Hour' is to his own saying, his favorite album, and was made after years of 'developing his approach to installation concerts'. I am not sure what an installation concert is, but in this case it was an entirely dark room, and sound coming from all around. Schaefer uses to that end a mini chord organ, grand piano, bell, music box, clarinet, vinyl manipulations, town hall organ, as well as field recordings of his own making. The work is not improvised but strictly composed. And it's a great recording! Starting out in a very dark and deep, drone like manner, this quickly evolves into a fine work of blending the organ and clarinet (at first, the opening sequence) to a rich tapestry of sounds moving in and out, the careful crackling of old vinyl, people walking about, and a serene melody in the closing piece. Rich textured sound, a form of drone music in which something more happens than in some of the other works around in that area, and yes, one could say, this is indeed his best work." [Fdw/Vital Weekly]
"Probably it was noted before, but let's do it again: Janek Schaefer is a busy bee. Ever since he surfaced with his tri-phonic turntable, he expanded his work into the world of sound art, installations and more conceptual approaches to playing around with vinyl, CDs and such like. His latest album, 'In The Last Hour' is to his own saying, his favorite album, and was made after years of 'developing his approach to installation concerts'. I am not sure what an installation concert is, but in this case it was an entirely dark room, and sound coming from all around. Schaefer uses to that end a mini chord organ, grand piano, bell, music box, clarinet, vinyl manipulations, town hall organ, as well as field recordings of his own making. The work is not improvised but strictly composed. And it's a great recording! Starting out in a very dark and deep, drone like manner, this quickly evolves into a fine work of blending the organ and clarinet (at first, the opening sequence) to a rich tapestry of sounds moving in and out, the careful crackling of old vinyl, people walking about, and a serene melody in the closing piece. Rich textured sound, a form of drone music in which something more happens than in some of the other works around in that area, and yes, one could say, this is indeed his best work." [Fdw/Vital Weekly]