zeitkratzer – zeitkratzer performs songs from „Kraftwerk 2“ and „Kraftwerk“
Format: 180gr LP incl. insert
Release date: july 19th 2019
2nd volume of „modern composition supergroup“ (The Wire)
ZEITKRATZER’s re-interpretations of early compositions by electronic
pioneers KRAFTWERK.
In more than two decades
ZEITKRATZER has created an astonishing broad catalogue from the
obligatory (20th century avant-garde composers like CAGE or
STOCKHAUSEN) to the unexpected (electronic artists such as CARSTEN
NICOLAI, TERRE THAEMLITZ or underground experimentalists like THROBBING
GRISTLE and KEIJI HAINO) – but hardly anyone was prepared for the
ensemble’s choice of early KRAFTWERK pieces! When volume 1 was released
in 2017, ZEITKRATZER founder and director REINHOLD FRIEDL announced
that there’ll be a volume 2 of course – and here it is::
from the
opening drony horns of „Harmonika“ to the subtle guitar of the album
closer „Wellenlänge“, the 4 tracks own all the interpretatory and
aesthetic acerbity the ensemble is known and praised for.
The first album made it immediately into “The Wire office ambience” playlist and to the
“Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical Releases”: “ZEITKRATZER’s
interpretations are bouncy, horn-driven motorik grooves, static
explorations of pointillistic overtones, breathy Zen-like meditations,
and rollicking rhythms.” The Spanish Rockdelux concluded: “Keep close
and be happy to get more!” Sonic Seducer attested ZEITKRATZER to
“uncover unexpected potential. It’s a blessing that the next KRAFTWERK
is already announced!”
And here it is! Now you can listen to
all the music of the first two KRAFTWERK albums “as gloriously played
as one could ever desire” (Vital Weekly).
Recorded live at
HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, Dresden in january 2019,
„zeitkratzer performs songs from the albums „Kraftwerk 2“ and
„Kraftwerk“ “ delivers the compositions that were still missing to
complete zeitkratzer’s stunning take on the early, hybrid kraut-esque
electronic avantgarde albums “Kraftwerk” and “Kraftwerk 2”. Mission
accomplished! A must-have. As German radio SWR agreed: “ZEITKRATZER is
serious music turned from stiff to joy!”