Caudal, Idklang
Dienstag, 15. April 2014 - 21:00 Uhr
rhiz
Live:
CAUDAL (feat. Aidan Baker)
IDKLANG
Dj Kid Rafeet
CAUDAL, a trio of Canadian guitarist Aidan Baker (of Nadja, B/B/S/, etc.), Irish bassist Gareth Sweeney (formerly of Gout), and Colombian drummer Felipe Salazar (of Muerte En Pereira), formed in 2012 in Berlin, Germany. Baker’s multi-layered, heavily affected guitar overlays Sweeney and Salazar’s driving, propulsive rhythm section creating music equally influenced by motorik krautrock, post-punk, and spacerock. The trio released their debut album, Forever In Another World, on the environmental charity label Oaken Palace Records in 2012. The follow up album, Ascension, is forthcoming spring 2014 from Belgian label Consouling Sounds.
Press Quotes:
"[L]oose instrumental flow, unwinding on the languorously present bass and swelling drums as Baker’s guitar accretes in multiple layers, some so processed as to sound like synth accompaniment. Hypnosis on the rising and falling tides the trio generate is the order of the day for “Threever,” though here the tempo shifts up a gear into post-motorik mode, the bass throbbing with the sound of New York No Wave traffic pulsations as much as it does to the autobahn’s sharply-defined, no-limits groove."
- Freq: [http://freq.org.uk/reviews/nadja-caudal-adoran/]
"[F]ocus[es] on sounds much more spaced out, psychedelic and krautrocky, and it doesn't take more than a few minutes of opener "River's Edge" to lure you in, and drag you down into their gorgeous, laid back, washed out, softly psychedelic sprawl. Thirteen minutes of tranced out motorik mesmer, the drums and bass locked into a gorgeously languid groove, which for nearly twelve minutes remains unwavering and locked tight, with Baker doing most of the textural and sonic heavy lifting, in the first half adding softly chiming spidery melodies, warm chordal swells, shimmering soft focus clouds of dreamlike FX, the vibe super drowsy and drifty, only adding some distorted heft for the last couple minutes, but even then the bass and drums don't blink, anchoring Baker's final swirling squall."
- Aquarius Records: [http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/c15.html]
IDKLANG
“His music transcends genres. When he shifts the musical scenes, he channels industrial legends Throbbing Gristle and the ever experimental Gordon Sharp of Cindytalk. His vocals range from soft, high?pitched, Thom Yorke?esque stylings to black metal worship that in some places even reminds one of Chelsea Wolfe's electronic tunes of witchcraft.”
(Anne?Marie Darok, mica)
IDKLANG is the solo set of guitarist, singer and producer Markus Steinkellner who also is and has been active in bands like Cameran, Jakuzi’s Attempt, Artists In Revolt, FA TECH, Arktis/Air, Soft Power Ensemble of Vienna. During the past years IDKLANG has been busy performing and writing music. The unique variety of his sound sees him on a lot of different stages and floors, sharing them with bands and musicians like Health, Nadja, Acid Mothers Temple, Mauro
Pawlowski (dEUS), Merzbow/Pandi, Eugene S. Robinson (Oxbow), Otto von Schirach, Fuckhead, KK Null, Zeni Geva, Ava Mendoza, Monno and Native. Since 2009 he’s been playing shows all over Europe and Asia. That includes appearances at Festivals like „Wiener Festwochen“ (Wien, AT), „Elevate“ and „H.rgerede“ (both in Graz, AT) or „Boomtown“ (Gent, BE). So far IDKLANG released an EP (“Id”, 2011) and a Split?CD (w/Cordyceps, 2012 on Wire Globe Rec.). At the moment he’s working on his first full length album.