Description:	LP on Schoolmap, limited to 300 copies
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Schoolmap
	Price:	£15.39
	Availability:	In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day.

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...according to our Brett on 12 November 2009.

I'm told that Andrew Pekler has had stuff out on Scape and Kranky before which will probably give you an idea of the sort of realm the guy's operating in on this Schoolmap LP, limited to 300 copies in a very attractive cover which looks like someone's gone apeshit with a spirograph. Shit, I'd forgotten about those and now I kind of want one.. I might look and see if they still make them when I get home. I'll keep you informed of my progress in this matter. So, Entanglements in the Orthopedic Sensorium then; it seems these tracks are made up of fragments Pekler had laying around on various hard drives so it's totally all over the place in pretty much every immediately noticeable way (switching from Black Dice-y electro gloop beats to swooning orchestral waltzes to Moondog-style percussive interjections in the blink of an eye - then back again) but he's actually done an amazing job sticking them all together in a way that creates quite a natural flow. As far as the process goes it's almost like a more extreme, less focused version of Jim O'Rourke's job on his last LP. Good stuff.

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What their label says...

The work of the Berlin-based composer Andrew Pekler has been been documented in various releases for labels such as ~scape, Staubgold and Kranky. When asked by Giuseppe Ielasi for some material to be released on Schoolmap Records, Pekler immediately considered the possibility of taking the many unused music fragments that had been collecting cyber-dust on various hard drives and bringing them into some kind of order. Raw sketches, orphaned sounds, finished pieces for abandoned projects, music for theater and dance, even a few completed tracks that did not fit onto earlier releases - these are the component parts of “Entanglements In An Orthopedic Sensorium”. In the process of arranging the album, Pekler aimed to impart each of the four “Entanglements” (fittingly reflected in Matthew Shlian’s cover art)with a distinctive structure and dramatic arc without concealing the fragmentary nature of the utilized material. The results are playful, rhythmical and peculiarly asymmetrical. Frequently, the music is immersed in otherworldly atmospheres that evoke both vintage science fiction and the most experimental fringes of ambient music.

The album’s title was prompted by Steven Connor’s review of Michel Serre’s “Les Cinq sens”. The relevant passage reads: “Our house of experience, which includes not just each individual body but also what Serres calls the ‘orthopedic sensorium’ of our social structures must remain sufficiently open, the social ear sufficiently labyrinthine to allow capture of the unintegrated, or the disintegrative, and the rapture of the ear by what forms and deforms it.”