Sabisha Friedberg & Moritz Müllenbach live in Paris

Sabisha Firedberg and Moritz Müllenbach will be performing live in Paris, at the Centre Culturel Suisse — 38, rue de Francs-Bourgeois. Sabisha and Moritz have collaborated in the creation of an original sound piece inspired by the novel “Etidorpha”, an esoteric fable from the late 19th century.

“Praxis” reviewed by aufabwegen

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Es ist schon erstaunlich, woher ein knapp über 30-jähriger eine solche kompositorische Reife hernimmt. Praxis geht von etwas verschwurbelten Yoga-Fragestellungen aus und verfolgt die Suche nach der ultimativen Herkunft von Sound. Verschiedene Orte werden imaginär aufgesucht, als Möglichkeiten beleuchtet und dann doch zumeist wieder verworfen. Praxis sucht diese Orte auf mit knisternder Brillanz, mit knacksenden Digitalrülpsern und einer dem Jazz verwandten Experessivität. Tolles Album! (Zipo)

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“Praxis” reviewed by The Wire

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This debut album by a producer and multi-instrumentalist from Izmir comes replete with an impressively elaborate self-description. It talks of “Phonetics themes”, using phonemes rather than words to tell stories, with digressions into “Nada Yoga” and the claim that the producer is “beholden to the harmoniousness of two essential properties that maintains the forcefulness of a cognition space.” Even after several readings, soundtracked by the aural results, it remains opaque what the actual links are between the theory and Praxis.
What we have here is a record that is consistently sophisticated, sometimes almost beautiful, but remarkably standard. The palette here — a collage of field recordings, laptop distortion, minimal instrumentation and subterranean hums — is remarkably familiar from any number of iBook creations released in the last decade or so. Praxis is a particular serene version of this idiom. The ideas seem to be confined to the jerky cut-ups of the opening “A Phonetics These”, whose spliced syllables evoke something between Stockhausen’s Stimmung and Goodiepal. After this, tracks are left to drift along prettily, in a by now predictable international laptop style.
The rather misnamed “Visceral (In A Figurative Sense)” for instance, elegantly features doleful organ chords, a punctuating synth, and some background clutter and scrape, as if to give the impression that the piece is far less structured than it is. “Behold Now Bikkus, The Sounds of Nada Yoga” promises something slightly more outré, with its chants hovering in the background — but there are no major departures.
Owen Hatherley

“Ification” reviewed by Boomkat

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Known for pulverising works on the Mego label like Noonbugs and The End Of Vinyl, Austrian sound sculptor and former member of the notorious Ilsa Gold, Peter Votava returns to his noisy oeuvre via the excellent Cronica label, this time toting dark ambience, digitally remodelled guitars (sampled from the fretboard of Digital Hardcore survivor Christoph De Babalon) and plenty of ear-melting microsonic experimentation. This one gives KTL a run for their money in the experimental metal stakes. Powerful stuff. “Ification presents a collection of seven highly diverse tracks that revolve around dense, filmic and eerie atmospheres, without ever drifting into obvious or simple harmonies. As in his previous work, Pure takes from music history whatever serves his narrative needs and appropriates it through his very own sound-mangling strategies. Complementing this approach, here, and for the first time in his work, there is a very tight integration of various instrumentalists, whose recordings – produced for this CD – are often the compositional base of the tracks.” Highly recommended.

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