Black to Comm - Seven Horses For Seven Kings - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Over the course of 20 years, German artist Black To Comm (Marc Richter) has pushed the limits of / and merged the aesthetics of art, conceptual installations and music, coming in a wave of innovation alongside his peers Pita, Fennesz, and later Sarah Davachi to name a few. Through it all Richter as Black to Comm has challenged assumptions, explored identity and confronted the concept of authorship itself.At Zeenath Parallel Heavens finds Black to Comm contemplating the hybridity within each and every one of us, be it sexual, racial, cultural, or linguistic. Richter mirrors personal dualities musically with a combination of sounds he created and manipulated samples, blurring their boundaries. InchI always try to blur the line between sampling and my own recordings, also between 'real' instruments, MIDI, electronics, editing, between authenticity and theatrics/artificiality.Inch says Richter. When recording he became aware of how AI text programs processing resembles his own methods. InchI had the realization recently that the way I compose is not too dissimilar to what AI software is doing nowadays - especially when the AI is hallucinating (this is the term used when the AI is overloaded/overcharged/inundated and comes up with made-up results).Inch Human behavior reflected in a computer facsimile of human intelligence appealed to the ethos of Black to Comm, whose titles and concepts are often oblique and tongue-in-cheek.At Zeenath Parallel Heavens dazzling expanse of sounds, Richter assembles an arresting sonic narrative exploring the existence of alternative realities. It is as astounding in the scope of it's vision as it is immediately enthralling, as inviting as it is subtly unnerving.1. Then Began the Harp to Fashion2. Steep Thy Plumage in His Sweetness3. Never Heed the Tongues of Wooers4. Time Will Fly on Equal Pinions5. La société des rêves6. Musik i'm Schatten7.

The music of Black to Comm is as powerfully intoxicating as it is subtly unnerving. The solo project of shapeshifting German producer and sound artist Marc Richter, his mastery of sonic manipulation is matched only by his astounding clarity of vision. Following the acclaimed Seven Horses For Seven Kings released just a year ago, Oocyte Oil and Stolen Androgens applies Richter's wild imagination to an exploration of the human voice, standing as some of his most immediate and affecting music to date. Each of his phantasmagoric works is meticulously constructed from an omnivorous array of smudged samples and other sonic detritus, painstakingly collected by Richter from across the history of recorded music or his immediate environment and altered into beguiling new shapes. Sound sources seem tantalizingly familiar and yet often just out of reach, flickering at the edges of the subconscious.1 Gustav Metzger as Erwin Piscator, Gera, January 19152 Stolen Androgens3 Oocyte Oil4 Gepackte Zeit (für Hanne Darboven)5 Rataplan, Rataplan, Rataplan (Arms and Legs Flying in the Air)6 With Mary Mother and Bridges Four Album Tracks 1. Gustav Metzger As Erwin Piscator, Gera, January 1915 2. Stolen Androgens 3. Oocyte Oil 4. Gepackte Zeit (FÜR Hanne Darboven) 5. Rataplan, Rataplan, Rataplan (Arms & Legs Flying in the Air)

Through his output both as a sound artist and through hiseclectic Dekorder record tag, Back to Comm (Marc Richter) hasestablished himself as a singular voice of new music. His ThrillJockey debut, Seven Horses For Seven Kings is Richter's most directand visceral work to date. It is unashamedly dark and undeniablyangry. But rather than be consumed by such emotions, Richteremploys them here as ecstatic .A relentless sonic explorer, he approaches the studio as hisinstrument, using sampling, analogue production and digitalmanipulation to sculpt audio fragments into surprising new shapes.Samples from Richter's contemporaries like German composer NilsFrahm are bent and compounded with elements of early recordedmusic and medieval song, creating pieces that transcend time andgenre. Richter blurs the lines between organic instrumentation anddigital production to the extent that the two become inseparable.Asphodel MansionsA Miracle No-Mother Child at your BreastLetheTen Tons of Rain in a Plastic CupLicking the Fig TreeFly on youDouble Happiness in Temporal DecoyIf Not, NotThe Deseret AlphabetSemirechyeRameses IIAngel InvestorThe Courtesan Jigokudayū Sees Herself as a Skeleton in the Mirror of Hell