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Polwechsel: Traces Of Wood
by Glenn Astarita
Since the late '90s, the European outfit known as Polwhechsel has brandished a strikingly unique sound campaign. Other than the dual-drummer percussionists' attack consisting of polytonal cymbals swashes and soft timbres, the music predominately emanates from the lower register schematic via double bassist Werner Daffeldecker and cellist Michael Moser's earthen-toned string implementations. Nonetheless, the quartet depicts a rather surreal paragon with subtle surprises, as an element of the unknown remains a constant throughout its repertoire. It's interesting how ...
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by Nic Jones
The process of making music can sustain only so much discussion, and the essay that accompanies Archives Of The North more than adequately covers this abstract material. In any case, Polwechsel's sound world, as with any manifestation of experimental music, is better experienced than analysed.
One pertinent reference point is Morton Feldman's singularly reduced minimalism. All of the pieces here certainly echo Feldman's penchant for unconventional development, and the results, as on Michael Moser's Datum Cut" and the group's Magnetic ...
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by Kurt Gottschalk
In a world based largely on solo and duo work and chance collaborations, Polwechsel and poire_z were supergroups. The quiet flutters of electronics and acoustic instruments can be hard enough to keep fresh and engaging for two performers, but often times larger groups just blur the whole creation--becoming more like a mud puddle than a cloud. If AMM are the forebears of the quiet improv scene (and they are), Polwechsel and poire_z were the proudest sons. By ...
read morePolwechsel & John Tilbury: "Field" on Hatology 672
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All About Jazz
Along the Polwechsel path towards a reflected reintegration of the once
Excluded musical parameters, the two composers for this CD, Michael Moser and Werner Dafeldecker, have gone one step further while also reflecting.
Polwechsel’s own history: traditional parameters are reintroduced into the original Polwechsel idiom as disturbances, refractions or inclusions.
The invitation extended to guest soloist John Tilbury is also part of the reflected reintegration of traditional elements and the extension of Polwechsel's concept, which they develop in their cautious ...
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Polwechsel Releases "Archives of the North" on hatOLOGY
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All About Jazz
Burkhard Beins, Martin Brandlmayr, John Butcher, Werner Dafeldecker & Michael Moser. Barcode 752156063322 Our 3rd release of Polwechsel. Also available: Polwechsel on hat(now)ART 112 & Polwechsel 2 on hat(now)ART 119. The Polwechsel project has been exponential in defining new approaches to the composition/ improvisation paradigm and in doing so have created a music that defined, examined and radically reassessed its own genre. Each phase of Polwechsel has been marked by a defining document and the releases of their recordings have ...
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Polwechsel: "Archives Of The North" on hatOLOGY 633
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All About Jazz
Polwechsel Archives Of The North hatOLOGY 633 Total time 51:35
Burkhard Beins, Martin Brandlmayr, John Butcher, Werner Dafeldecker & Michael Moser. The Polwechsel project has been exponential in defining new approaches to the composition/improvisation paradigm and in doing so have created a music that defined, examined and radically reassessed its own genre. Each phase of Polwechsel has been marked by a defining document and the releases of their recordings have frequently book-ended trends and ...
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