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Review on Split-LP with Gunter Adler
By Vital Weekly
Another record from that nice, incestious Hamburg music movement, a fine split LP between Gunter Adler and Klangkrieg. Adler is the alter ego of Jurgen Hall who is together with Reznicek a member of Groenland Orchester. That orchestra is up many electronic pop alleys but in his solo work Adler goes out to the world of experimentalism. He plays around with analogue synths and concrete sounds in a partly serious and partly funny way. Quite academic on one hand, but always with a twist. On the other side you'll find Klangkrieg, which is Tim Buhre and Felix Knoth, the latter being in another life also Felix Kubin. They exist since god knows how long. For their various musical projects, Klangkrieg is also the vehicle for the more experimental side. Unlike Adler, they bring in much more dynamics in their work. Musicwise it ranges from sheer ambient silence to quite noisy bits. Another difference is that Klangkrieg seems to be using more treated acoustical sound elements. It's been awhile since I heard Klangkrieg, but I must say I very much like this record, and especially their side of it. Both artists poke fun in a serious way with the serious avant-garde and luckily they found the right designer to do a cover that is appropiate.
Frans de Waard