Metal Machine Music, by zeitkratzer

Metal Machine Music

by zeitkratzer

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Nick Saunders Absolutely incredible. When MMM is played with acoustic instruments the beautiful textures and tones shine through creating something very exciting, natural and raw. Favorite track: Part 03.

George Graphy I like the feeling this album provides me. Noise music is best felt.

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	1.	Part 01 16:13
	2.	Part 02 16:01
	3.	Part 03 16:18
	4.	Part 04 16:36

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About 10 years after their first, critically acclaimed performances of Lou Reed’s adventurous album, zeitkratzer presents an audacious new interpretation of this 20th century avant-garde classic. Here, for the first time ever, all four parts of Metal Machine Music played by zeitkratzer on one recording! Seriously "clangorous"!

This new version of Metal Machine Music is even more transparent, instrumentally pure and radical than the shortened 2007 release; Live recordings from concerts in Rome and Reggio Emilia, Italy, mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker. A real sound experience!

After their first performances in 2002 (documented on the 2007 CD release on Asphodel) zeitkratzer gave Reed’s album a new thorough listen and transcribed the sounds to create an acoustic score for the ensemble to play live. Those familiar with the oft-criticized two-disc album might wonder how they pulled this off, but they did and their interpretation of the work brought it to the attention of a wider audience. It is therefore partly thanks to the zeitkratzer version that Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music has been rediscovered as a classic of the Twentieth Century. It was at the live performance with zeitkratzer in Berlin, that Lou Reed spoke for the first time in public about the musical details of his composition, in an interview with Diedrich Diedrichsen.

zeitkratzer was clearly ready for the challenges of performing Metal Machine Music live, and drew packed houses for their presentation of the work. This confirmed their assertion that rock’n’roll as serious contemporary music has been ignored for too long, in too arrogant a way. The relentless sound forces the mind to put aside its preconceptions about what music is supposed to sound like, or feel like, or look like. The brain starts to implode, or explode, or dissolve Zen-like into the controlled chaos of the performance, discovering a strange exhilaration, accepting an invitation to explore the outer reaches of texture and timbre, to experience a sonic freedom that’s rare in any art form. These recordings from the

Metal Machine Music has become even more intense and worked out during the ten years of zeitkratzer playing it live at numerous international festivals – contemporary music festivals, noise festivals, improvisation festivals, - it’s impossible to limit this music to one genre. Metal Machine Music has gained a new quality of clarity, sound transparence and musical intensity. Real radical contemporary chamber noise music! These recordings from the Festival Romaeuropa in Rome and the Festival Aperto in Reggio Emilia (2012) present zeitkratzer not only at their very best, the splendid mix by Rashad Becker also reveals new aspects of this 20th century avant-garde classic!

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directed by Reinhold Friedl

Frank Gratkowski / clarinets
Matt Davis / trumpet
Hilary Jeffery / trombone
Reinhold Friedl / piano
Marc Weiser / guitar
Maurice de Martin / percussion
Burkhard Schlothauer / violin
Anton Lukoszevieze / violoncello
Uli Phillipp / double bass

recorded live by Klaus Dobbrick at Festival Romaeuropa, Palladium, Rome and at Festival Aperto, Teatro Cavallerizza, Reggio Emilia, Italy

mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker

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released August 8, 2014

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