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01. Fuchs - Fuchs 1
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ARTIST
FUCHS
TITLE
Fuchs
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ALIEN TRANSISTOR
CATALOG #
N 079LP
N 079LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
8/12/2022
Fuchs
is a band that never was. It vanished as quickly as it appeared in the picture. In 2005,
Kante
singer and guitarist
Peter Thiessen
travelled to Weilheim to visit
Markus
and
Micha Acher
in their studio, where they were joined, among others, by
Notwist
-affiliated musicians like
Cico Beck
,
Robert Klinger
,
Carl Oesterhelt
, and
Stefan Schreiber
. Spirits were high, but schedules were full: after a week of improvised sessions, everyone went their own way. The recordings gathered dust until Markus Acher found them again in 2021 while cleaning out his studio. After carefully re-evaluating the rough mixes, the musicians decided to finally release them. The resulting album comprises six tracks that musically draw on jazz, aesthetically lean on dub techniques and ideologically pick up on krautrock: there's no solos to be heard on this record, just a few equally skilled and open-minded musicians listening to each other carefully, providing each other with space in which to unfold.
Fuchs
is a document of egos dissolving in a collective spirit. Thiessen and the Acher brothers met in the 1990s and bonded not only over their shared background in hardcore music and the DIY ethos in which it was rooted, but also over their love for jazz. Thiessen invited Micha Acher to join his band
Kante
on flügelhorn in 2004 for a tour that saw the expanded group play unusual encores after the official concert was over. The Acher brothers didn't have to ask twice when they invited him for a visit in Weilheim to further explore their mutual interests in a studio setting. Between immersing themselves in books by the photographer
Leonore Mau
, cooking together and drinking the occasional fruit schnapps, the trio went into the studio. Thiessen considers the resulting recording sessions to be a kind of attempt at musically translating their conversations during those days. They discussed different approaches to jazz, whether sampling and musical mis-citations can unlock ecstatic potentials and the possible parallels between syncretistic religions and pop music. The six pieces on
Fuchs
are chock-full of exactly these moments. When at one instant, the players seem to disperse and improvise freely, they always meet again on common ground a short time later, continuing on their way together. There are no conventions or even previous agreements that guide them, just a shared will to explore a vast range of curious sounds and unusual rhythms together as a truly unified constellation of very different musicians. Silk-screen artwork; includes download code; edition of 500.
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