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ARTIST
VON SPAR/EIKO ISHIBASHI/JOE TALIA/TATSUHISA YAMAMOTO
TITLE
Album I/Album II
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 458CD
BB 458CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/15/2024
"The inspiration for
Album l
and
Album II
began with a performance by Japanese musician
Eiko Ishibashi
at Cologne's Week-End Fest in 2019. For this appearance, the renowned experimental musician and composer of the Oscar-winning film
Drive My Car
was joined on drums by
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto
and
Joe Talia
; both integral members of the top-level improvisational/experimental scene in Tokyo. While in town for the festival, Ishibashi met up with the members of the Cologne-Berlin based group
Von Spar
who featured Ishibashi on their then new album
Under Pressure
. It was these previous collaborations that triggered the seven friends to take part in an extended session which resulted in these two new recordings, the first of which contains a variety of short pieces while the second boasts one continuous epic, album-length track. These recordings are a development of Von Spar's collaborative ambitions, where
Sebastian Blume
,
Jan Philipp Janzen
,
Christopher Marquez
, and
Phillip Tielsch
have previously invited special guests to their home studio to help realize a vision -- a methodology exemplified on their last two releases,
Street Life
and the aforementioned
Under Pressure
, which featured contributions from
Marker Starling
,
Laetitia Sadier
,
Vivien Goldman
, and
R. Stevie Moore
. On
Album I
, the percussion and drums phase in and out in a bold and skillful manner and form the framework for delicate guitars and complex progressions on the keys, all resulting in somnambulistic city-pop pieces like the opener, grooving electro-jazz reminiscent of the early 2000s, and fusion. You can also hear elements of contemporary jazz explorations from New York, LA and London, or reach back further to the Chicago post-rock of the early '90s.
Album II
with its expansive, experimental nature goes one step further featuring Yamamoto and Janzen's jagged percussion serving as the bedrock for a menacing and otherworldly arrangement of wind instruments to float in until essential sampler work by Joe Talia brings everything to a lively conclusion. These two albums may have the same origin but they are wildly different pieces of work, both exciting in their own way and proof that daring to experiment with freedom and trust in your collaborators can lead to musical highs such as these." --
Lars Fleischmann
, 2024
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