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THE HAFLER TRIO
one dozen ecomomical texts by Peter
Greenaway
cd
SR71
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A (SHORT) BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Mark McKenzie born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1963.
He founded The Hafler Trio with C.R. Watson (ex-Cabaret Voltaire) in
1984. In less than ten years,
The Hafler Trio have issued mostly on Touch
(which it co-founded), Staalplaat or Soleilmoon, some
thirty productions (including "A
Thirsty Fish", "Even Hours Sleep", "A Bag Of Cats", "Three
Ways Of
Saying No"...). With his innovative
work, he rebuild a new definition of 'concrete & electronic
music'.
He collabores with John Ducan, Willem de Rider (dutch
fluxus), Annie Sprinkle (porn star), Psychic tv,
Wir, Clock
dva...
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PETER GREENAWAY / ONE DOZEN ECOMOMICAL
TEXTS
is the fruit of an unexpected collaboration
between the legendary The Hafler Trio and the very british
filmmaker Peter Greenaway ("Falls", "The Draughtman's
Contract", "Zoo", "Drowning By Numbers"...).
The music was
specially composed to accompany a collection of 12 unpublished short
stories by the
themes that permeate his films: destructive obsessions,
absurd habits, voyeurism, naturalist details...
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ONE DOZEN PIECES OF MUSIC
Music, far from adapting itself simply and
squarely to the text, or assuming the role of a modest
accompaniment,
proposes others cruelties - a suble game of ruptures, the use of
worn-out vinyls,
of electronic installations, dramatic increases
developing into the rustling of a bulb underwater, distant
voices of a
grotesque song drifting into extinguishment; and as special guest
David Tibet (Current 93)
tells a story you'll whish you never
heard...
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file under:
electronic avant-garde
ref:
SR71
cd/booklet/special packaging
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