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Terra Null.

by Angel

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Naked Land 26:12
2.
Monolake 16:08
3.
Colonialists 10:03
4.
Quake 14:55

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CD available at: editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO-163

The fourth release by Angel for Editions Mego expands upon their singular combination of electronics, traditional instrumentation and extended technique.
The musical reduction & simplicity of Terra Null. is a beautiful and brooding statement on cultural darwinism. At a time when the dominance of capital and greed blanket our world in a singular destructive objective, Angel deploy a reductionist technique that opens a path towards a potential new reality. Slow moving drones peer from the cracks providing a fluid motion of dark beauty. This is Angel at their most abstract, their most static and the result is their most focussed work to date.
Exquisitely produced by the line up of Ilpo Väisänen (csg, oscillators, effects), and Dirk Dresselhaus (guitar, oscillators, effects) with guests Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello, voice) and Lucio Capece (bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, preparations) Terra Null. takes the listener on a journey from the acoustic dominant timbre's of the opening 'Naked Land' crossing into the shadowy instrumental interplay of 'Monolake' and the microtonal explorations of 'Colonialists'.
‘Quake’ concludes proceedings with an assault of drones, distortion and instrumental aggression, an expression of complete dissatisfaction that offers a means of reconsideration.
Terra Null. embraces radical long form statements of both musical and political matter.


Other (die) ANGEL albums at MWM:
mirrorworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/angel
mirrorworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/kalmukia
mirrorworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hedonism
mirrorworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/26000
mirrorworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/entropien-i
mirrorworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/y-n-magneetti-sine
mirrorworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/utopien-i

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released February 24, 2015

Written and produced by Dirk Dresselhaus and Ilpo Väisänen

Ilpo Väisänen: typewriter, oscillators, effects
Dirk Dresselhaus: guitar, oscillators, effects
Hildur Gudnadottir: cello, voice
Lucio Capece: prepared bass clarinet, saxophone

Recorded & mixed in February 2011 at ZONE, Berlin
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin

Cover concept by Ilpo Väisänen
Layout by Stephen O'Malley
Back cover picture: ”Americanska Näfwerbåtar”by Anders Chydenius, 1753

Published by La Chunga, Touch Music, Copyright Control

© 2014 Editions Mego / Angel / MWM
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This is the fourth release by Angel for Editions Mego. The line-up here is Ilpo Väisänen (oscillators, effects) Dirk Dresselhaus (guitar, oscillators, effects) with Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello, voice) and Lucio Capece (bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, ‘preparations’).

The initial signs seemed to indicate a record about 17th and 18th century emerging imperialism, with track titles such as ‘Naked Land’, ’Colonialists’, and the last cut, ‘Quake’, which gets bible-apocalyptic, roaring like Sunn O))), or Masami Akita (Merzbow, to us).

The opening cut ‘Naked Land’ betrays an almost spaghetti western sound, which seems to further underline the frontiersmanship. A guitar twangs, detuning and retuning, but the electronic side of the drones betray the time we’re in, and Angel collapse ancient into modern as Marx did when he talked about ‘primitive’ accumulation and the commodity as a kind of anthropological fetish.

Dan Latimer responded to Fredric Jameson’s stupendously influential ‘Post-Modernism’ essay, criticising Jameson for being essentially shoulder-shrugging. Here, Latimer described capitalism’s ‘beserk obsession with the bottom line.’ It was the best use of ‘beserk’ I have ever seen in print.

Because beyond its common connotation of ‘stupid’, the word relates to Viking warriors, whipped into a hallucinogenic destruction-fury to the point where they have to bite their own shields before going into battle, lest they bite off their own tongues. Somehow, this album puts us into that space, ‘Quake’ particularly, but via slow drones, cello, oscillators, guitar and scree, it also unfolds into what Latimer called:

‘…a sublime appropriate for individual subjects fixed in some vast network of international business, blinking, clicking, whirring incessantly to transmit, like transistorized Jedi Knights, the power of the Force.’
The buzzing, low tones simultaneously describe this evil landscape, at the same time as they try to open a crack in it, and of course speed is important here, temporality is crucial to capitalism.

The antique etchings on the CD sleeve may be of ‘the new world’, but they become, simultaneously, dialectically, about the new world we may be forced into, the place, as Jameson once told us, that we have no alternative but to go to. This is ‘utopia’, terra null, a no-place, at least not yet.

In summary, this is an utterly brilliant album. About as far from Sleaford Mods as you can get, formally speaking, but somehow Angel emerge from the same global fuckup, with just as much force.

Written by Steve Hanson for www.thesoundprojector.com, FEBRUARY 5, 2015
www.thesoundprojector.com/2015/02/05/drifting-towards-utopia


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MirrorWorldMusic is a label, archive, and publishing imprint for diverse idiosyncratic music projects that are linked in some way by their protagonists, involving the likes of Schneider TM, Dirk Dresselhaus, Kptmichigan, die ANGEL, Locust Fudge, and others. The diversity of the stylistic scope is unified by an overarching experimental approach and multi-minded spirit.

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