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Artist:	ZEITKRATZER
Title:	Zeitkratzer Plays PRES
Label:	BOLT RECORDS (POLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	DUX 811CD

2010 release. "Instrumental versions of the pieces from Polish Radio Experimental Studio arranged by one of the most unusual ensembles of contemporary music -- Zeitkratzer. International virtuoso group is specialized in this kind of provocative approach to electronic music. Recognizing that instrumental techniques are indebted in electronic music, Zeitkratzer demonstrates what was once possible only in recording studios can now be played live on violins and pianos. This is exactly what happened in Sejny's White Synagogue, where the premiere of the repertoire took place. After listening to hours of compositions from the Studio, musicians have selected six of them to be reinterpreted for the concert. They represent different stages of Studio's history and were prepared for instrumental covers by Zeitkratzer during its members stay in Residential Arts Centre in Wigry. Now the selected six compositions are presented as this album."

Artist:	ZEITKRATZER
Title:	Volksmusik
Label:	ZEITKRATZER (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ZKR 002CD

The Zeitkratzer international soloists ensemble does their own take on Volksmusik: literally, the "people's music" of the Alpine regions of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, etc. However, Zeitkratzer comes up with their own sound, and their own interpretation, immersing themselves into folk music as still existing today, not some leftover phantom of older days and older traditions. To prepare for this material, they focused their research on the music of the Danube abutters and used every kind of found material that proposed itself for further use: waltz-reminiscences were inescapable, zither and dulcimer were tested for their capability to produce pure noise, and the trumpet sings the pure and naive overtones of mountain solitude. Influences from the lower Danube valley are felt within the pieces' rhythmical eruptions, with everything leading to a wonderful, free uprooting. Listen, be wild, enjoy! Der Standard newspaper in Vienna has high praise for the first performance at the Donaufestival: "It tested folk music from the Danube region by means of classical modernity and for its capacity for moments of humor." All music by Reinhold Friedl and Maurice De Martin.

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