rinus van alebeek 'musik fur mitte'

cdr

"Berlin is an exciting place to be, although I never considered moving there. I certainly like it, but to live in a big city is not just what I was made for. Rinus van Alebeek settled himself there, armed with his dictaphones, walkman recorders and mixing board. Van Alebeek's career started as a writer in The Netherlands (under a pseudonym which I forgot) and then turned, at a later age than most of his peers, to music, with some obscure releases by Zeromoon, but these days is the spotlight. His main interest is in creating music out of field recordings, but unlike say someone like Chris Watson, part of the Alebeek esthetic is use lo-fi equipment and deliberately add the hiss, the tape inadequacy and the low resolution as part of the music. In the centre (mitte) of Berlin he taped a whole bunch of sounds and created these eight pieces of music. These are not pieces of music that are cut out of a bigger part of unedited field recordings, but in a 'studio' set up been collated together to make well finished off pieces of music. Each tells his own story, and contains the sounds of the city. Quite a nice release altogether. (fdw - vital weekly)"

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