Moebius +
Tietchens – S/T (Bureau
B)
2012 sees the release of this collaborative work
between Dieter Moebius and Asmus Tietchens, which was suggested as a parting
gesture following Moebius’ 1976 Liliental project (which included Conny Plank,
Okko Becker and Helmut and released in 1978). Considering Moebius’
prolific output and well earned reputation as a serial collaborator it’s quite
surprising that their paths have not crossed in 35 years.
Since the early ‘70s and Kluster, Cluster and
Harmonia, Moebius’ appetite for electronic experimentation has not waned and
Tietchens, since 1976, has been an avid recorder of electronic music, musique
concrete and more recently abstract music. The 13 tracks are quite wide ranging
stylistically and move freely between the space-age landscape of “Vincent”, to
the angelic “Fontenay”, the quirky epic “Lange Reihe”, the sampled water works
of “Raboisen”, the Industrial “Im Windkanal”, the heavy metallic-phased “Grimm”,
the glitch opera of “Plan” and the wavering “Mach Auf!”
The lengthy “Kattrepel” is slightly nostalgic with
its driven, repetitive groove and the dentist’s drill-like piercings would no
doubt rid you of unwanted felines (sorry, couldn’t resist…).
As you can see pretty diverse but a couple of tracks
of note are “Thorax” which seems to compress a New York taxi horn into its
hip-hop motif and “Yes, Yes” which muddles Congotronics with bubbling squelches
and electro-fluid.
Willsk
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