Dirac - Emphasis

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 29 Oct, 2009.

We got a bunch of tasty stuff in on Spekk this week. Three whole brand new releases! They all come in those lovely oversized cardy sleeve things and I reckon if you had the lot they'd look lovely stacked up all side by side smiling all experimentally at you. Dirac is one of these 3 and they're a name new to me! They're a trio from Austria who make some lovely sounding atmospherics on Emphasis. Field recordings, percussion, guitars and some electronics all combine to make a delicately sparse yet full sound. There's plenty going on in between the sparseness so there's lots to latch on to here. I love the delicateness of it.... It all sounds like it spiders web that could just break at any minute but it's held together by some sort of clever musical jam. Mmmm.... Jam. Plenty of drones and tones to keep you droneheads happy and there's ample things going on elsewhere to keep the more experimental lot happy. Easy on the ear and easy on the eye which is the way I like it these days.

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Dirac consists of Peter Kutin, Daniel Lercher and Florian Kindlinger based in Vienna, Austria. Their music is minimal yet containing variety of imaginitive sounds from drums, guitar to field recordings. Silent emotional music.

Text by Peter Kutin (Dirac):

Our way to create a record is based on the simple principle of direct-recording – which means the shape and form of our music is basically created within one moment. It is not only about meeting in a studio to do the recordings, but to stay together at one place with a focus on creating music and concentrated listening each day.The isolation from other musical inputs and the reduced input in general, being far off from bigger cities, far off an everyday-live takes you to the point when you don’t want to sound like something you know, you just want to search, experiment and play.
John Cage said, that experimental music is where the outcome can’t be foreseen. These things happen through passion and not ambition.

For ‘emphasis’, we again went to Salzburg, where we could set up our gear in the basement of Florian’s parents house for one week – the same place we recorded our first album ‘dirac’.We recorded about 4 hours everyday , experimenting with different materials and instruments. We later listened to the results at the studio garnison7 in Vienna and did more editing work in a small hut up in the snowy austrian mountains in February 2008 – it was cold, electricity was short, but it was silent.

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