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01. EKKEHARD EHLERS - Ain't No Grave
02. EKKEHARD EHLERS - Frozen Absicht
03. EKKEHARD EHLERS - Strange Things
04. EKKEHARD EHLERS - A Second Fire
05. EKKEHARD EHLERS - Die Sorge Geht Über Den Fluss
06. EKKEHARD EHLERS - Nie Wieder Schnell Sagen
07. EKKEHARD EHLERS - Misorodzi
08. EKKEHARD EHLERS - Maria & Martha
09. EKKEHARD EHLERS - Meeresbeschimpfung
10. EKKEHARD EHLERS - O Death
11. EKKEHARD EHLERS - The End
ARTIST
TITLE
A Life Without Fear
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
STAUB 066CD STAUB 066CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/2/2006

This is Frankfurt-based Ekkehard Ehlers' (Autopoieses, Marz) seventh release for the Staubgold label. A frontrunner in electronic experimentation and electroacoustic composition, Ehlers has reinterpreted Schoenberg, produced an album of folktronica, and paid aural indietronic tributes to Albert Ayler and Cornelius Cardew on his acclaimed Plays series of EPs. Anomalous in the best sense of the word, A Life Without Fear is as unexpected as Jim O'Rourke's embrace of John Fahey's music a decade ago. Ekkehard Ehlers once again harnesses the genius natural resource that is Joseph Suchy's go-for-broke attitude towards the guitar, and the "electric blues" are given yet another definition. A Life Without Fear occasionally strays into Maher Shalal or 21st century Red Krayola Blues, Hollers and Hellos turf, but wait -- Franz Hautzinger's at the door. Droning, guitar-picked porch blues blend with whiskey-soaked vocals, voodoo jazz, and throbbing electronics while low hums rub up against scraped strings and a buzzed-out harmonica heard through a tin-can. This is rough-hewn experimental bluestronica mixed with graveyard dirt.