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Artist:	HAJSCH
Title:	1992
Label:	SONIG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SONIG 024CD

"About ten years ago the Cologne school of experimental electronic music was taken over by new generation of young musicians. Hajsch was not only influential in its development and differentiation, but he pioneered new recording and editing procedures and set new standards with his unconventional compositions. The combination of experimental-electronic, electro-acoustic and serious music is ideally revealed and realized in Hajsch's music. Now after a ten year period the compositions released in 1992 on his own label, 'Quiet Artworks' can be heard on CD. Originally these recording were only available as limited edition vinyl pressings. Despite this fact, the recordings quickly received distribution. Musicians such as Jim O'Rourke, John Zorn, Thurston Moore, or Masami Akita were inspired by Hajsch's music. He was offered numerous opportunities for collaborations. Despite this interest, or perhaps precisely because of it, this independently-minded artist withdrew from the scene. Hajsch is a classical, quiet perfectionist, eschewing both loudness in music and the unbridled din of the media in equal measure. He is uncompromising in both his work and his thinking and manages to gain an astounding musical power from his extreme designs through which traditional and modern musical structures can be blended anew. His works 'Nagual' and 'Akasa/Für Cleo' still sound fresh and current. Hajsch's quiet, powerful music, in which concept, experiment, concrete music and classical composition are equals, will still be attracting a host new listeners long after the hysteria surrounding speedily engendered powerbook-electronica has subsided."

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