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Irmin Schmidt

Nocturne (Live At The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival)

    Live album from legendary founder of CAN.

    Nocturne (live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) comprises three pieces performed live on a partly prepared piano, along additional pre-recorded soundscapes.

    The live performance of ‘Klavierstück II’ is a pensive improvisation using essential elements of the original piece.

    ‘Nocturne’ starts with the ambient sounds whilst the piano seemingly melts into the soundscape and eventually grows into a long meditative piano solo.

    ‘Yonder’ is a much more dramatic piece, dominated by the overwhelming sounds of church bells, a sort of “dies irai”, radical, emotional and fiercely poetic.

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    Klavierstück II
    Nocturne
    Yonder

    Irmin Schmidt

    Villa Wunderbar

      Can founder's retrospective compilation album updated to include music from 5 Klavierstüke and released on vinyl for the first time. The compilation includes tracks such as Villa Wunderbar, Kick On The Floods and Bohemian Step, alongside remixes by Schmidt of two Can tracks, Alice and Last Night Sleep, as well extracts from his extensive soundtrack work. 


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      A1 Dreambite
      A2 Le Weekend
      A3 Rapido De Noir
      A4 Love
      B1 Villa Wunderbar
      B2 Time The Dreamkiller
      B3 Fledermenschen
      C1 Burning Straw In Sky
      C2 Kick On The Floods
      D1 Fuchsia's Song - Rainbow Party
      D2 Ensemble: Joy
      D3 Klavierstuck V
      E1 Flavia Theme
      E2 Quattrocanti (Dream Theme IV)
      E3 Fresco & Finale (Flavia Theme III & IV)
      E4 Zicke Zick
      E5 Schneeland
      E6 Dangerous
      F1 Rote Erde (Titel Musik)
      F2 Es Geht Ein Schnitter
      F3 Bohemian Step
      F4 Roll On Euphrates
      G1 Solo
      G2 Aller Tage Abend Walzer
      G3 Morning In Berlin
      G4 Geisterlied
      H1 Verdi Prati Valse
      H2 Messer Im Kopf
      H3 Lied Vom Verschwinden
      H4 Alice (artist Can, Remix By Irmin Schmidt)
      H5 Last Night Sleep (artist Can, Remix By Irmin Schmidt) 

      Irmin Schmidt

      5 Klavierstücke

        Irmin Schmidt has announced 5 Klavierstücke, an album of five piano pieces recorded last year by the influential composer, musician and founder of Can. 
        Irmin Schmidt explains, “The tracks are spontaneous meditations, only played once and recorded simultaneously - no edits or corrections. They are formed from an emotional memory in which Schubert, Cage, Japan (Gagaku) and Can are equally present.”

        5 Klavierstücke, was recorded and produced by Gareth Jones in the South of France on Irmin Schmidt's two grand pianos. Schmidt partly prepared his Pleyel piano, in the way he was taught by John Cage himself, and the other piano - Irmin Schmidt’s 100-year-old Steinway - remained unprepared. Several pieces were recorded in one session on the prepared piano only, others contain recordings from both pianos. All ambient sounds were recorded on site - around Irmin Schmidt's studio - and there are no other instruments or electronics of any kind.

        TRACK LISTING

        1 Klavierstück I
        2 Klavierstück II
        3 Klavierstück III
        4 Klavierstück IV
        5 Klavierstück V


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