Despite the fact that (Argentinian) Federico Barabino and (Swiss) Günter Müller never met, they made this album. Federico recorded some improvisations for electric guitar and sent them to Günter for conducting a collaboration in distance. Günter recorded some improvisations for ipods and electronics to be used for mixing with Federico's tracks. Shifting, editing and mixing the material brought him to the final compositions. |
instrumentation
Federico Barabino electric guitar
Günter Müller assembled sounds
recordings
took place in various moments during 2008
editing, composition & mixing
Günter Müller until October 2008
mastering
Themistoklis Pantelopoulos, November 2009
graphic
Themistoklis Pantelopoulos, November 2009 |
catalogue number
TRB.022
release date
December 18, 2009
format
CDR |
status
available
order |
reviews
Frans de Waard | Vital Weekly | issue 731 | May 2010
The two previous releases by Triple Bath have not been reviewed yet. The improvised nature of those I left in the capable hands of Dolf Mulder. It seems to me that, upon hearing these two (this one + "Squall Line Bow Echo" by Mike Khoury & Ryan Jewekk) new releases on Triple Bath, the label is more and more moving towards the direction of improvised music. First we have a release by the omni present Gunter Muller and his electronics and ipods and Argentinian guitar player Federico Barabino. Unlike many other releases by Muller this is not a recording from a concert situation, but in an exchange of sound files. In this case Barabino mailed Muller a bunch of sounds from his guitar playing and Muller played around with that, keeping in mind the improvised nature of the music. I must admit I am not blown away by the music. It sounds all a bit too randomly put together for my taste. There is a bunch of sound material on the table and that gets mixed up. A bit hard to keep one's attention to it, I think. A bit more effort, please. |
