2013年3月10日日曜日

[649] Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Lloyd Cole - Selected Studies Vol. 1


Label: Bureau B
Catalog#: BB124
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 2013
DISCOGS  AMAZON

A1 Pastoral 4:23

A2 Selbstportrait-Reich 4:25
A3 Wandelbar 5:49
A4 Still Life With Kannyu 7:18
A5 TangoLargo 5:33
B1 Orschel 4:04
B2 HIQS 6:14
B3 Fehmarn F/O 2:36
B4 Virginie L 5:00
B5 Lullerby 3:5

ネオアコースティックの名作「Rattlesnakes」で1984年にデビュー、以降も際立ったソングライティングで良作をリリースするLloyd Cole(ロイド・コール)と、70年代より電子アンビエント作を生み、テクノ史ではゴットファーザーの一人とされるHans-Joachim Roedelius(ハンス・ヨアヒム・ローデリウス)の共作。交流のきっかけとなったLloyd Coleの2001年アンビエント器楽小品集「Plastic Wood」、Roedeliusのソロとも相似するあたたかな波長をもつエレクトロニカ作品。ジャーマン・ニューウェイヴ/クラウト・ロックの好リイシューが続くBureau Bより。


What a collaboration! The British singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole has always been a Cluster fan, especially of the 1976 LP "Sowiesoso". Cole released his own heavily Cluster-influenced album "Plastic Wood" in 2001. Roedelius liked it and, over the next decade, Cole and Roedelius considered working together from time to time, but never actually got around to it. It was not until 2011 when they finally met in Vienna that they could finally begin in earnest. The album reveals mature, carefully composed music, as if Cole and Roedelius had been working together for years already. Both artists focus on electronic sounds in a selection of succinct, direct pieces, free of musical garrulousness. Cole neither sings nor plays guitar and Roedelius rarely touches the keys of his grand piano. Instead, both musicians have developed a subtle soundscape which only drifts towards pure noise on one track. All of the other "studies" on the album move within a vast spectrum of harmonic wonder and rhythmic stepping stones.

from bureau b