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TIETCHENS, ASMUS - Abraum Zwo

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Universal Exports UE3 Release Year: 2021 Note: the phantastic follower to "Abraum" (2010), based on the same source recodings from the harbour in Hamburg, but re-processed with different approach.. "...On this new release, everything that reverts to musique concrète is removed, and shimmering sounds is what remains. At times quite droney, but in the world of Asmus Tietchens, nothing is static. Much like the water in the harbour, everything is fluid. Tietchens traces the contour of sound without touching too much upon the sound itself." - ed. of 300 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info “In English, Abraum Zwo means Rubble Two. Twelve years ago I made field recordings in the Hamburg harbour. The most exciting recording was actually sensational: rubble being transported from a distant building site in a very long steel pipe (diameter approximately 80 cm.) flushed with water. I’ve never heard such sounds before. I derived four pieces (Abraum 1–4) from that material which were released in 2010. The new series (Abraum 6-10) is composed from the same basic field recordings but with a totally different approach. Due to the fact that the area where I’d recorded the original sounds has changed radically in the last twelve years, I tried to recall this bygone locale, hence the pieces’ highly atmospheric sound, as opposed to the first four which were pure musique concrète“. [Asmus Tietchens, Hamburg, April 2021] "On the day this new Asmus Tietchens CD arrived, I went to see the new James Bond movie, 'No Time To Die' (not bad, a bit long), so seeing the label being Universal Exports made me smile. Let's hope the good relatives of Chubby Broccoli didn't trademark the name. The front cover here doesn't depict where a Bond baddie hides, but the harbour of Hamburg. This is the location where Tietchens goes for the field recordings on 'Abraum Zwo'; that stands for 'Rubble Two'. You can find the first instalment of this series in Vital Weekly 775. Tietchens didn't return to the harbour to record new field recordings. That could have been an idea, as he says that the area changed quite a bit over the past twelve years, so that would have been interesting. He returned to the original field recordings of 'Abraum' and used (his words) "a totally different approach". This time around, it is all about the atmosphere of the place. Or perhaps one could say the residue left of the area. The music as the fading memory of location now re-shaped. Some of this sounds very mysterious and vague, but I mean this is in the most positive sense of the word. The first 'Abraum' was full of sound (relatively, of course; this is post-2000 Tietchens), created with the most refined and most delicate musique concrète techniques. On this new release, everything that reverts to musique concrète is removed, and shimmering sounds is what remains. At times quite droney, but in the world of Asmus Tietchens, nothing is static. Much like the water in the harbour, everything is fluid. Tietchens traces the contour of sound without touching too much upon the sound itself. I am biased when it comes to the work of Tietchens. I know you know. I think 'Abraum Zwo' is outstandingly good work. That may not come as a surprise. In the last few days, this has been the album that was on rotation a lot. Maybe that says it all?" [FdW/Vital Weekly] https://universal-exports.bandcamp.com