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...according to our Clinton on Fri 08 Apr, 2011.
I was about to go over to the CD player and switch this album on in order to provide you with the insightful review you need and have just realised the bloody thing has been playing for 10 minutes. As I succeed on a diet of malaise and pure hatred its no suprise that I've failed to be wooed by its presumably subtle depths. This is different in mood to what I've previously heard by Hauschka in that it's less of your 'chocolate box romanticism' (copyright: some idiot) and more Philip Glass-inspired ivory twinkling ad infitum. Problem is, it washes straight over me. I have absolutely zero interest in the music being produced. It's clever but soulless. Piano twinklings fed into a laptop and emerging completely indistinct, I'm having a hard time connecting with it. In the interests of fairness then I'll describe it a bit further. Each track is based on a looped piano, on which other pianos and assorted machinery and percussion are added, this is augemented by melodica and other flotsam and jetstam. The effect is jittery, jaunty, restless.
• Brand new album centred around Hauschka’s sublimely unique take on techno and house music for prepared piano.
• 1200 word Sunday Times feature published in January.
• Series of specially selected live dates booked with multiple musicians, including some dates with Calexico, múm and Modest Mouse drummers.
• Hauschka will perform at the Barbican for the Steve Reich Reverberations weekend festival in May.
• A Brighton performance showcasing FatCat’s 130701 artists (Max Richter, Hauschka and Dustin O’Halloran) has been confirmed for the Brighton Festival / The Great Escape in May.
• Hauschka also scored three tracks on Frightened Rabbit’s acclaimed album ‘The Winter of Mixed Drinks’.
• This album will appeal to fans of Max Richter, Johann Johannsson, Dustin O’Halloran, the Kompakt and Basic Channel labels.
• “Electronic music from an acoustic instrument... Nothing short of astonishing” - MOJO; “Clacking, scraping and hammering amid chilly piano and forlorn strings [that] creates, as if by magic, a factory of percussion” - NME; “Deconstructs most preconceived notions of music yet manages to create something astounding and accessible in the process. Brilliant” - The Fly.
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