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ARTIST
KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF
TITLE
Schemen
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
KARLRECORDS
CATALOG #
KR 101CD
KR 101CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
6/23/2023
11th album by the one-of-a-kind collective: psychedelia and free form jazz (not jazz) trigger a sophisticated excursion into weird textures with drastic turns. Dislocated dense music full of secret connections.
"... On
Schemen
, familiar fragments float gently around their core -- a Fender Rhodes tone, a bass figure, a guitar motif, a masterful drum shuffle, a moment of icy stasis borrowed from the harmonium playing of
Christa "Nico" Päffgen
. Triggering brief associations, they slowly rush off in other directions through free jazz-informed editing work, whereupon such zones can also arise in which perception has a few tricks ready and earlier experience suddenly breaks into the now in a completely different way. Half suspected, half seen. Half-music like
Can
from Cologne -- also masters of improvised editing -- sometimes produced a few decades ago in their in-between moments. The first minutes of 'Future Days' for example, which fade in gently, sketch a barely graspable figure emerging from all directions of the room.
Kammerflimmer Kollektief
also engages in similarly open moments of development. Loosely, it eludes the first formative impressions, keeping itself ready for moments that do not follow any logic of appointment. This looseness in handling makes Kammerflimmer Kollektief so fluidly audible, even when dissonant peaks and free playing arise. What Karlheinz Stockhausen is to Can's understanding of composition, the recordings of
The Cocoon
are to Kammerflimmer Kollektief. The Cocoon, a meeting of garage psychedelics from the Hannover area with free jazzers from the
Galaxie Dream Band
, whose album
While The Recording Engineer Sleeps
, recorded in 1985 in unguarded moments, operates in a very similar way with decentralized perceptual ambivalences and only appeared more or less secretly four years later on
Wilhelm Reich Schallspeicher
. Other traces of
Schemen
lead to the debut album of
Quicksilver Messenger Service
. The guitars of
Gary Duncan
and
John Cipollina
, which refer to themselves in an unforced manner, are instructions to let go. They don't want to be traced in every note as a solo, but they give their music a sense that the essential takes place off center, in the mutual and intuitive gift of loving attentions..." --
Werner Ahrensfeld
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