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STAUB 043CD
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"'Not a rocker. Not an electronic artist. A sensual, a feeling person. No copy-art. In these times of senseless struggles for sovereignty at the musicians' regular table, Suchy is the cowboy with the Indian's face.' This is what one of Germany's biggest daily newspapers recently wrote about Joseph Suchy, 'Cologne's very own professor of guitar research'. They got it spot on. In the global improv & avant garde community, the born Franconian is no unknown person. He collaborated with artists like David Grubbs, Ekkehard Ehlers, Niobe and FX Randomiz; he is a permanent member of Burnt Friedmann's Nub Dub Players; and he was one of the founders of Cologne-based cult-improv-label Grob. The musical sensitivity of this slightly odd artist in his mid-forties is hard to match. calabi.yau is Suchy's new solo-outing. It's a music of delicate sounds, in which acoustic guitars and electro-acoustic signals are woven into non-linear, fragile sound sculptures. At times, this music borders on sensory deception (what is this sound? Electric or acoustic?); it is an illustrated broadsheet of a strange, yet familiar reality. Suchy cunningly and imperturbably evades the categorizations of contemporary modern music: What he does is giving his listeners a carte blanche to dream. Or, as the artist himself puts it: 'Music in search of the freakwave'."
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STAUB 043LP
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EMMLP 005CD
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"Entskidoo is the fourth solo album of the Cologne-based guitarist, producer and label owner (Gefriem) Joseph Suchy, an album which will no doubt soon be regarded as his 'magnum opus'. Suchys' ability to transcend borders is manifested in his numerous diverse collaborations, be they with Kato Hideki, Kevin Drumm and Jean-Marc Montera or Jan St.Werner, F.X.Randomiz and Ekkehard Ehlers. The fact that Entskidoo evokes at times a putative orchestra from everyone involved, is more to do with Joseph Suchy's use of the whole gamut of his know-how as producer and studio musician, both technically and compositionally, as well as his creation of a brilliantly resonant network of playing styles and overlaps. The result is something resembling a rhizomatous adaptation of an imaginary archive of 'avant garde' music, be it electronic music, musique concrète, improvised music or noise. One is only seemingly enticed down the well-trodden path by the wealth of allusions, before ultimately succumbing in the sound labyrinth of unexpected sequences, tonal palimpsests and non-linear crossovers; and yet one cannot escape the conclusion that there are simply more ideas here per track than on many an 'experimental' album. Entskidoo ought to delight fans of both Kaffee Matthews and Rafel Toral alike. And for those individuals, who are not only at home with Fennesz's guitar sound, but also with Loren Mazzacane-Connors, or those who are fascinated by the analogies between, say, Oval and AMM, well, this album ought to be like a dream come true."
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EMMLP 005LP
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TONS 005
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"Already on his first 7" from the early 90s the Cologne-based guitar-maniac Joseph Suchy explored the possibilities of the coalition between guitar and electronics, then together with Jan St. Werner and F.X. Randomiz on the long o/p first release of their Gefriem-label. Some years have passed since and Suchy is now working with guitar plus electronics on his own -- the first results of these works were released on Grob which he is also co-running; this is his second release of his heavily reworked, bombastic walls of sounds -- which let you know how Hendrix would have sounded in the 00s. Or Ron Asheton in the age of glitch. Or whatever."
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