Präsens Editionen HHV Records 9 Items

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Präsens Editionen)

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As the team behind zweikommasieben takes its latest edition to ponder the essence of longevity, they arrive at several questions which they have worked through with their featured artists and writers. On the one hand, artistic traditions might be useful to lean on, to conjure an image and an accompanying gut feeling of a recent past. On the other hand, investing in the knowledge of traditions might allow to bend and twist them to explore ones own expression. Whether that is consciously incorporating sounds from the past to evoke historical resonances, as Courtesy did for her most recent album Violence of the Moodboard, or propelling the presentation of music forward into new traditions, such as in the work of Xzavier Stone who has recently started pairing scent with sound during his live performances. In a similar manner, Lateena Plummer proposes new traditions for a dancehall scene which finally makes space for marginalized identities and voices, a purpose directly derived from her experiences in the past, which she openly speaks about in conversation with Anna Froelicher. When Beatriz de Rijke decided to work under the moniker Bea1991, she did this as a conscious anchoring in time, with the latter part of the name being a direct reference to her year of birth. One can imagine that a birthdate might be one of the only constants in life: one that will forever connect someone to a certain generation, and maybe even to a global cultural zeitgeist.

zweikommasieben #27 includes

-interviews with / portraits on Bea1991, Christian Marclay, Courtesy, Divide and Dissolve, DJ Loser, Lateena Plummer, Somatic Rituals, and Xzavier Stone -essays on “New Moon” by Children of the Light for Darkside - a column on Rike Scheffle's work - a contribution by Lou Lou Sainsbury

All content in English; 92pages; 230x305mm zweikommasieben is a magazine that has been devoted to the documentation of contemporary music and sound since the summer of 2011. The magazine features artist interviews, essays, and columns as well as photography, illustration, and graphics.

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Red On

Phantom Easy

20,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Präsens Editionen)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Where does pop start and experimental music end? Instead of drawing lines, Red On keeps on exploring the spaces in between these supposed poles with his latest album Phantom Easy, a record that offers moments of pure beauty as well as unpredictable, uncontrollable wilderness.

The spaces Red On moves in aren’t per se terra incognita, but have been explored in recent years by like-minded musicians such as How To Dress Well, Fever Ray, or Dawuna, as well as artists that are affiliated with Präsenes Editionen, where Red On’s album is published, such as Martina Lussi, Belia Winnewisser, or Magda Drozd. Yet, Phantom Easy is an exploration of its own: The melancholic album, which is informed by pop, electroacoustic music, rhythm-focused jazz, and krautrock, is carried by Red On's voice, which appears in ever-changing stages of alienation. The wistful tone of the twelve tracks is reinforced by single phrases sung by Red On that, through their repetition, develop an urgency that can hardly be escaped. The result is pop music that is brave enough to embrace the adventure; or experimental music that doesn’t shy away from offering catchy hooks and grand melodies.

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Leo Hofmann

Kapriole

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Präsens Editionen)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kapriole is the debut album by Zurich- and Hamburg-based artist Leo Hofmann after working in music theatre, sound art, and performance contexts. Central to the album, which refers in its title to a joyous jump, is the ambition to translate an ephemeral practice into recorded matter. Fixed but never static, Kapriole is informed by intimate and detailed listening situations and sound practices like Asmr or the acoustically sheltered world of noise cancelling headphones. And while it is apparent that Hofmann has a deeply rooted understanding of technology and its abundant possibilities, Kapriole is a tender and almost analogue feeling affair. The human voice occupies a central role in the musical configuration of the album: quirky repetitions, hushed fragments and poetic statements, circling topics like communication, mobility, and immersion occupy the album’s eight tracks. The result is a sonorous sensation, which, in its scarcity, paves the way for meticulously crafted and delicate soundscapes. Kapriole as a joyous jump which is technological as much as it is emotional.

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V.A.

The Ring Orchestra

39,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Ring Orchestra is an eight-person effort, a collective coming together to tackle opera and one of the genre’s controversial poster boys. 18 compositions, the artists Born in Flamez, Gil Schneider, Simonne Jones, Leo Luchini, Legion Seven, P.A. Hülsenbeck, Isa GT, and Ixa create a collaborative musical score that uses Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen as the point of departure. Originally, the music was created for a staging of Der Ring des Nibelungen at Schauspielhaus Zürich, directed by Christopher Rüping and written by Necati Öziri. Far from being an affirmative tribute, the orchestra sets out to deconstruct and break down what Wagner and his opus magnum represent: collaboration over singularity and openness instead of conservative rigidity. The resulting score doesn’t shy away from ambivalence by decentralizing authorship and encompassing everything from ambient to pop, reggaeton, and a wider variety of non-western musical influences.

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Martina Lussi

Balance

24,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The New Album Of Swiss Artist Martina Lussi Joins What No Longer Is Conjoined. Conceived And Realized Over A Period Marked By Major Changes In Both The Private Sphere And The World At Large, Balance Brings Together The Before And After. The Album Is Held Together By A Common Feature: Lussi's Voice, With Which Every Composition Began. Her Singing, Modified By Effects, Is Supplemented By Other Sounds, Which Are Light At Times, Bittersweet At Others, And Sometimes Replace Her Voice Altogether, Like On The Album's Fulcrum "Fragments Of Attention." On The First Half Of Balance, Lussi's Singing Plunges "Meditation On The Multitab" Into A Cosmic Soundscape; Occasionally A Rhythm Irrupts Into It. On "Time Laps," A Track From The Album's Second Half, The Artist's Singsong Articulates Rhythmical Elements And Propels Them Towards A Reluctant Euphoria.Balance Appears Open And Fragile, At Times Even Vulnerable, But Lussi's Relentless Openness Derives From The Immense Strength Needed To Weather Changes Both Small And Large.

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Belia Winnewisser

Soda

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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With her second album Soda, Belia Winnewisser continues on the path she has been following for quite some time. Few share the Swiss artist’s knack for combining a sensibility to the enthusiastic potential of pop with an interest in niche references of experimental sound design. In recent years, her feel for this fusion brought Winnewisser to the attention of the electronic club music scene. This world and the various genres related to it leave their mark on Soda: sing-along anthems like “So Real” and the densely layered drone of “They Cry of the Sirens” stand alongside the feverish dance track that gives the album its name and rave bombs like “Solen.” A year without club nights allowed Winnewisser to fully embrace her flair for pop and experimentalism, which resulted in more than a mere series of nods to different genres and acts. Soda—both as a resonant title and as a collection of music—is a direct call without hidden meanings or implicit references. It’s simply the path she’s on and the way she’s going.

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Magda Drozd

18 Floors

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Magda Drozd is deeply concerned with listening in her artistic practice. Her second album, 18 Floors, Drozd focused on the apartment building she called home for several years, compiling a corpus of field recordings in and of the building, which she approached as a living organism rather than static material. The result challenges current assumptions about living together in urban settings. The field recordings were woven into eleven speculative tracks consisting of sounds including violins, guitars, synthesizers, drum machines, and Drozd’s voice. The music moves between sound art, ambient, indie rock, and R&B. 18 Floors presciently emphasizes the importance of the home, which has become glaringly obvious in the age of Corona. Her foresight constitutes her avant-gardism as much as her preference for documenting what might be over what actually is. The result is an album that creates a space for what is transient, uncertain, and unstable. And it creates a space for opportunities, which we need now more than ever.

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Samuel Reinhard

Interior

CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Präsens Editionen)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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On Interior, Swiss Composer Samuel Reinhard Excavates Intricate Resonances At The Periphery Of Our Attention. Across Four Movements, Reinhard Follows A Process Whereby He Layers And Loops Fragments Of Piano Improvisations. Yet Interior Complicates Its Own Systematicity By Using Samples That Are Not Only Recognizable As Piano Notes, But As Live Recordings Of A Piano Being Played. Reinhard Composes From Traces Both Analog And Digital: We Can Hear Static Hiss And Clicks, But Also The Soft Trace Of A Finger Pressing A Key Or The Shuffle Of A Body Shifting Position. Interior Asks Us To Think About Where We Are, And How Close We Are Willing To Look, Feel, And Listen. Over The Course Of The Four Movements Sounds Return, Familiar But Transformed. What Sounds Like Repetition Is Something More Like Accumulation, A Thickening Of Space. Whether Regarded At Intimate Range Or From A Distance, These Compositions Reveal More The Longer We Linger In The Presence Of Each.

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Anom Vitruv

64311.0

13,99 €*