Jens-Uwe Beyer (aka Popnoname) releases his Debut Album with Drums off Chaos (Jaki Liebezeit, Reiner Linke, Maf Retter). It will be the first full lenght on Magazine. Buy it here at Kompakt.
Release date is 28 February 2011 // in UK 07 March 2011.
MAGAZINE 3 – DRUMS OFF CHAOS & JENS-UWE BEYER
Founded in Cologne the early 1980s, the anarchistic formation Drums Off Chaos
has continued uninterrupted to the present day. The collective of Jaki Liebezeit,
Reiner Linke, Maf Retter, Manos Tsangaris and others make music centered on
dynamic but still very precise rhythmic codes using carefully selected sounds and
patterns on self-constructed drums.
Previously, the group considered the shared and nonrecurring experience of
playing live more important than getting the music recorded. The latest release
however is the result of a collaboration with Cologne-based musician Jens-Uwe
Beyer. Thus, the Drums Off Chaos sound is available on record for the first time
after almost 30 years! (aside from a experimental singer collaboration available as a very limited
CD mail order release)
Beyer – from a generation that grew up with Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas project rather
than with Can – opens the record with the beat of a gong adding irradiant
sounds and elements of soft rhythms, which over time interweave seamlessly
with the energetic drum sound. The slowly floating melodies and punctuated
bass of Beyer convey an almost monasterial intensity which underpins and
reinforces the exacting rhythm of the drums.
This uncommon and multi-generational clash of musicians results in peerless
music that defies classification and comparison, as effects never before heard on
record materialize for the first time.
Line-Up:
Drums Off Chaos – Jaki Liebezeit, Maf Retter, Reiner Linke, Manos Tsangaris
Jens-Uwe Beyer
Tracks:
First Half
4 Of 7
Second Half
Even S
Total Playtime:
44:50 min
Links:
Resident Advisor, Kompakt, The Milk Factory // UK, Blog Critics, Boomkat, Groove, Was ist Das? // UK, The Drone // FR
Spex // GER, Westzeit // GER, Clubberia // JP, Livemusic.fm // UK, Impose Magazine // US, Exclaim // CA,
Radio:
Byte.fm // GER, Exotic Pylon // UK, Uncut // UK, WNYU // US
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