Browse by Label: SOMMERWEG (GERMANY)

Artist:	CONVERTINO, JOHN
Title:	Ragland
Label:	SOMMERWEG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SW 2008CD

"Spanning the distance between the living room and the mythic desert surrounding the Tucson barrio, between Erik Satie and Max Roach, John Convertino's home-recorded Ragland transmits an intimate immensity, a space Rainer Maria Rilke contemplated when he wrote, 'the world is large, but in us it is deep as the sea.' Indeed, the first full-length solo effort from the long-time Calexico and Giant Sand drummer/percussionist dives deep: the album maps many points of reference for Convertino's practice (spirituals and old western ballads being the obvious influences on tracks like 'Comb Your Hair With Water and Get to Church' or 'Buffalo Roam') yet wanders much further, toward horizons in minimalism and free jazz ('Bell Curve'). Sonically vast, Ragland postures solitude; it's an album made by one person that plays best when listened to alone."

Artist:	MOUNTAINEER
Title:	Sleep and Me
Label:	SOMMERWEG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SW 2007CD

"Hamburg, Germany. Henning Wandhoffs second album. Follow up to Sunny Day. Chamberworks and band sessions. Data folk tunes meets Tropicalia. 'After the sunny day, the curious night.' The Mountaineer returns with a team of allies, to tell you about his sleep. The spooky drift between conscious and unconscious that digests the measures of the day, the relics and puzzle pieces of a life, and makes dreams from them. The stories a mind tells to itself, to make sense of what it is given. This sleep is endoscopic. It is the sleep that surrounds you, looking at you. Creating a space for you to inhabit. And so we listen in a room full of echoes. Homebound and enshrined in the house that this sleep has made for us. The secret whispers of his voice, sheltered in a harvest of guitar strings, shielded by the breath that vibrates through a melodica, hemmed by the brushes on a drum. The hushed confidences told by a shaker, by a few notes from a piano, by a loop."

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