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Y-TON-G / ASMUS TIETCHENS / KOUHEI MATSUNAGA - YAK

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Monochrome Vision (mv13) Release Year: 2007 Note: 8 tracks of mainly rather concrete silent & mysterious microsound-works from these three sound-researchers from Germany & Japan in collaboration, all have delivered basic materials and worked on stuff from the others, so it's quite a variable and out-balanced release... Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info 8 tracks of mainly rather concrete silent & mysterious microsound-works from these three sound-researchers from Germany & Japan in collaboration, all have delivered basic materials and worked on stuff from the others, so it's quite a variable and out-balanced release... "An infinite and sometimes not easy to grasp recycled process. That's what Asmus Tietchens, at least to me, is known for. Here he teams up with Kouhei Matsunaga from Japan (of whom we haven't heard much lately, but he had a couple of nice releases on his own Flying Swimming label) and an even more obscure Y-Ton-G, who hails from Hamburg (just like Tietchens) and has been around since the dawn of cassettes and still releases CDRs to this date. Each of them supplied sound material to somebody else who then composed a piece of music. Two of them have sound material by a duo (Y-Ton-G and Kouhei and Asmus and Kouhei) - see, not easy to grasp these processes. Not that it really matters when it comes to appreciating this release. The eight tracks here make quite a coherent flow of music. The starting point - say the rumble on the surface - is processed through means unknown. That is: Asmus in his studio, Y-Ton-G through tapeloops and sound effects and Kouhei through laptop, things are altered, changed, deformed and sound like anything else and the starting point as such can no longer recognized. Through whatever means each of the composer uses here it still sounds pretty coherent. It's hard to tell who does what here if one is not looking at the cover. One could argue that the composers are perhaps interchangeable, but I like to take an opposite view. Through different working methods, arriving at similar results one gets a great example of various ways in reaching goals in modern musique concrete. Both Y-Ton-G and Kouhei Matsunaga show great respect for the music of Asmus Tietchens and its an album that surely will appeal to fans of Asmus. A very refined work." [FdW / Vital Weekly] label: www.monochromevision.ru