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    Picky Swedish label Blundar grip freewheeling Danish guitarist Jørgen Teller for an album of scuzzy dub experiments resonating with their offbeat roster including STL, Best Available Technology, Lowtec
    Text by: boomkat.com
    デンマークを拠点に70年代より実験音楽シーンで活動する音楽家Jørgen Tellerが、スウェーデン・マルメの地下テクノレーベルblundar @blundar.co からリリースした作品。シンクしていない3つのリズムボックスやシンセによる音素材を使って披露した即興ライブパフォーマンスをもとに制作。予想外のグルーヴも楽しめるディープな実験電子音楽作品です
    Text by: ovenuniverse.net

    In dialogue with the label, Teller has focused on extracting the recording of the rhythm boxes and timbales alone, emphasizing the tension between the rhythms. The album also features a remix by a fellow colleague of the acousmatic community; the composer Jacob Riis. On the closing track B3, Riis quietly manipulates and balances the elements of Teller’s recordings and gently releases them into a contemplative pool of static.

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Perhaps best described as a pioneer of the underground experimental scene, the signature of Jørgen Teller on the musical landscape of Denmark traces back to the late 1970’s. Sprung out of a whirlpool of post-punk and art school ideas, Teller has relentlessly been chiseling away on the constrictions of music in various bands, collaborations and solo projects ever since. Searching out its farthest outposts - be it free jazz, noise or acousmatic music - Teller has strived towards an approach to music without rules, often by way of improvisation and usually with the aid of electric guitar.

This album is based on a live performance held at the Inter Arts Center in Malmö in early 2022, where Teller performed a semi-improvised piece in homage to the poet Poul Borum, whom he had worked with in the mid-90’s closely before Borum’s death in 1996.

As a composer, Teller relies on a set of “basic choices” that becomes a “precise point of departure” - where he can then go against his “good knowing” of the science, trends and different schools of music and go straight into his own instincts as a performer. For this performance, he used pre- recorded material of three rhythm boxes (all out of sync), timbales and sessions on Erica synths.

In dialogue with the label, Teller has focused on extracting the recording of the rhythm boxes and timbales alone, emphasizing the tension between the rhythms. With minimalist drum sequences that could easily be placed in a proto-techno context, and the whooshing of what might be an ancient rhombus instrument, there is a feeling of a primitive presence to Teller’s rhythmic excursions. A throwback to the spiritual realms of a wordless society fighting the demons of chance.

Occasionally pierced by stark industrial drum crashes and rattling post-punk percussion, it also conjures echoes from the darker side of the 1980s. In citing Borum as its inspiration, Teller shares that he channels the poet’s energy and their shared love of “noisy stuff and darkness”.
But the pace can also go somewhere close to breakbeat on track B2, where a whirlwind of rhythmic elements clash into a deranged deconstructed club tune.

The album also features a remix by a fellow colleague of the acousmatic community; the composer Jacob Riis. On the closing track B3, Riis quietly manipulates and balances the elements of Teller’s recordings and gently releases them into a contemplative pool of static.

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released September 19, 2024

Music By - Jørgen Teller, incl. remix by Jakob Riis
Manufactured By - R.A.N.D. Muzik
Mastered By - Alexis Rodríguez Cancino
Photography By - mutantexture.com
Distribution By - www.rushhour.nl
Released By - blundar.co

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Since its inception, blundar has released a string of albums by artists working in the experimental field bordering techno and subgenres of dance music. From veterans of the underground scene like Lowtec, Frank Bretschneider and Sven Rieger, to younger talents like Sacred Grove and Unfinished Portraits, the label’s catalog so far is a carefully curated vision of atmospheric manipulations in sound. ... more

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