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Vier Vorspiele/L'Oil Retourne
Released: Dec 7, 1999
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Released: Dec 7, 1999
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This disc is one of the more evocative musique concrète discs to appear around the turn of the century. Both pieces run in several layers, from quiet sustained high pitches to distant...
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Pullover
Released: Sep 3, 1998
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Released: Sep 3, 1998
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Pullover's starting point is four German language texts written by Wehowsky's longtime collaborator, Markus Caspers. Wehowsky sent these texts to various friends, who were instructed to express...
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Acht
Released: 1992
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Released: 1992
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This album is divided into two sections. The first, Four Compositions 1992, is a collection of abstract pieces of sound art. "Restless Occlusion" is an exploration of the insides of a piano, with...
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eaRLy W 4: Ajatollah Carter
Released: 2004
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Released: 2004
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Here, in all their glory, are 20 wondrously gnarly lo-fi archival documents by legendary German (post?) punk outfit PD -- the letters originally stood for "Progressive Disco," though "Permutative...
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14
Released: 1993
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Released: 1993
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This mysterious project known as RLW is the outlet for German composer Ralf Wehowsky to conduct his experiments in noise and silence. His music is often placed in the post-industrial scene, yet it...
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Tulpas
Released: 1997
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Released: 1997
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Tulpas is a sprawling collection of reinterpretations and transformations of RLW's work through the early 1990s by many of the major sound artists from around the world. Five CDs in length, almost...
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Revu et Corrigé
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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Bernhard Günter released his first two albums on Ralf Wehowsky's Selektion label, so when Günter started his Trente Oiseaux label, one of his first releases was to return the favor. For this...
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When Freezing Air Stings Like Ice I Shall Breathe Again
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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Appropriately for an album with this title, Freezing Air is RLW's quietest collection, composed largely of brilliant, high-pitched drones evocative of cold, clear skies and frozen earth. He has...
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