Drone Records

G*PARK - Gour

Format: LP

Label & Cat.Number: Tochnit Aleph TA119

Release Year: 2015

Note: "crypto electro-acoustics" is the notion the label uses for this long composition by the Zürich based composer, who never fails to record & combine unusual field & object recordings... GOUR is an often quite fast moving collage made of all kinds of field recordings with rough moments, great creaking sounds, mysterious voice delusions, raw ether atmospheres... GOUR appears in an edition of 350 copies

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €18.50

More Info

"New works by Swiss musique concrete composer and visual artist Marc Zeier / G*Park. Active since the early 80's Zeier was a founding member of the Schimpfluch-Gruppe. He lives and works in Zürich as a composer, installation- and video-artist and plankton fisherman. Gour presents one long composition of his highly fascinating and unique crypto electro-acoustics based solely of micro field-recordings and natural phenomena. 'Musique concrete seems eternally old-fashioned and eternally modern. Marc Zeier makes you fall in love with the form all over again'. Thanks Are Due To: The Etang of Gour and its Creatures, A Singing and Cracking Chimney, Wild Bees and Wasps from Piemonte, Limnodromus griseus, Unidentified Voices from the Gemauge House, The Uwaga Squad, The Flies (Sarcophagidae), The Crows and Pigs of Chants, The People of Tiananmen, The Frozen Lakes, The Wolves. Edition of 350 copies." [label info]

www.tochnit-aleph.com

"The Swiss aktionist collective Schimpfluch has been active since the mid-'80s, with its various members seeking out the transgressive, the ultra-violent, and the transcendent all at once, via a dystopian hybrid of noise, punk theatrics, and / or musique concrete. In doing so, these provocateurs follow what their Viennese progenitors had started in the '60s through performance, sculpture, and painting. It can't go unnoticed how much of the iconography that Sudden Infant of Schimpfluch incorporates from Gunter Brus, and how much the hellish comedies of Otto Muehl filter through the modern day work of Rudolf Eb.Er. G*Park (aka Marc Zeier) is the most enigmatic of all the Schimpfluch artists, with no obvious parallels to anyone before him, as he trades in the modern day techniques of musique concrete, although his work acquires a tension, a dynamism, and an existential blight that were never achieved by the likes of Xenakis, Schaefer, Ferrari, or Chion.
G*Park's epic double cd Sub from two years ago still proves to be an exhausting and exhilarating document into the denatured field recordings, cryptic collage, and subcutaneous electro-acoustics from Zeier, with Gour standing a continuation of those themes. Like on Sub, Zeier states the origins of his sound material - crows, pigs, flesh flies, wasps, wolves, frozen lakes, and some less obvious sounds from the Uwaga Squad and the Etang of Gour. Zeier locates mechanized bursts against a backdrop of very distant blackened noise, with all sorts of whipcrack slashes, wooden creaks, watery plops, corvid calls, and porcine squeals constructing a strange and hostile narrative of ritualized violence against an unknown subject. The genius of G*Park lies not in the sounds themselves (even as they are immaculately presented) but in the psychological voids left where Zeier eradicated everything through deathray, sterilizing cauterization, or fastidious vacuuming. A brilliantly done record from one of the very best technicians of the cruel theater of musique concrete." [Aquarius Records]