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Henry Krutzen Silances

Holidays | Item No: 1135948
Vinyl LP | 1981 / EU – Reissue | New
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Item Description
Edition of 500 copies, screen printed cover. Includes two inserts: a replica of the original insert and the english translation.

Henry Krutzen is a relatively shadowy figure in the history of experimental sound. Between the early 80s and the 2010s, there are only a handful of albums that bear his name, and very little information about them. A multi-instrumentalist and composer who studied percussion, saxophone, and harmony in various schools and jazz clinics across Belgium, over the years he played in a diverse range of musical projects across the idioms of jazz, new wave, heavy metal, experimental, chanson française, world music and progressive rock, before relocating to Brazil during the early 2000s.

“Silances”, originally released by Igloo Records - the Belgian imprint founded in 1978 by Daniel Sotiaux - sitting alongside astounding and remarkably unique albums by Leo Küpper, Jacques Bekaert, Henri Chopin, Arthur Pétronio, André Stordeur, and numerous others, is an entirely singular gesture at the borders of sound poetry, musique concrète, and radical electroacoustic practice that draws upon disparate elements of drone, jazz, minimalism, ecstatic tribalism, and various traditions of music from across the globe. Decades on from its original release it remains as striking, unique, and compelling as it did upon its release.

In a note that Krutzen penned in 2022 when he was contacted for the reissue of “Silances”, Krutzen recalls: “Since I was 16, I had been experimenting with concrete music with a technician friend and we used all a teenager’s room could offer to make sounds into music: faucets, glasses of water, metal springs on ladders, objects of any kind… I had hours of recordings I pitched to Daniel [Sotiaux], to see if he was interested in making an album. I also had other ideas I wanted to be able to develop. What a joy when he accepted to work on the project! So I got to work. First, I set up a vocal improvisation quartet, and we spent long afternoons rehearsing using input I provided… We went into the studio and recorded almost two hours of improvisation, from which I then chose the best moments for the final product”.
Item Details
Item No: 1135948
Artist: Henry Krutzen
Title: Silances
Label: Holidays
Catalog No: HOL 141
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: EU – Reissue
Release Date: 1981
Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music
Style: Downbeat | Electronica | Leftfield, Classical Music
Available since: 2024-06-03
Condition: New
Price: 20,99 €
Weight: 250g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Des Voix
A2 La Machine
A3 Des Voix
A4 Froid
B1 Des Voix - Un Relent De Jazz
B2 L Alpiniste
B3 Des Voix
B4 Chaud
B5 Des Voix
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