Browse by Artist: SCHMIDT AND KUMO, IRMIN

Artist:	SCHMIDT AND KUMO, IRMIN
Title:	Masters Of Confusion
Label:	SPOON/MUTE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	SPOON 9161CD

2001 release. "Aptly titled Masters of Confusion is the first recorded fruit of the collaboration between Irmin Schmidt, founder member of the legendary German avant garde rock group Can, and Kumo, the artist name of drum programmer, sound engineer and producer Jono Podmore. For this album, Kumo spontaneously constructs, collapses and reshuffles towercards of rhythms sprayed with pointillist beats, over, under and between which Irmin's grand piano and keyboards dance with the poise of a Nuevo Tango player, the reflex of a gymnast and the wit of a joker on the run. Quite naturally the music carries traces of their combined experiences, which range over raging rock and incantatory trance improvisations, contemporary composition, techno and drum 'n bass." -- Wire

Artist:	SCHMIDT AND KUMO, IRMIN
Title:	Axolotl Eyes
Label:	SPOON/MUTE (UK)
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPOON 9391CD

"Irmin Schmidt, founding member of the legendary German avant-garde rock group Can, and breakbeat pioneer, producer and Professor Of Popular Music, Kumo (aka Jono Podmore) release a brand new album, for your listening enjoyment. Schmidt & Kumo's latest album of electronic experimentalism features Kumo's shimmering grooves, subterranean bass, Theremin and violin providing the perfect foil for Schmidt's peerless and enduringly adventurous playing. Unlike their 2001 debut -- Masters Of Confusion, largely put together by extrapolating snatches of music from Schmidt's opera Gormenghast -- Axolotl Eyes is very much a studio recording. As a bonus, the studio album is accompanied by a 5.1 surround sound DVD of the sound installation Flies, Guys, and Choirs, first conceived for London's Barbican Centre in 2001. The work combines surreally creating images from nature with subtle, quietly forceful environmental music." The DVD is PAL format, with 112 mins video and audio.

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