(…) And as it became clear, the mysterious seed, the topos of all sonic expression, lies in tone colour, or better, lies in the awareness of it, which is its resonance. The textbook definition of tone colour can only describe what it is not: qualities of sound that are not related to pitch, volume, or duration. Tone colour is therefore the absence and yet the total presence. For example, a mother reading a fairy tale to her child is reading words made of letters – but the child hears the mother´s „I love you“ in her voice. This is resonance. I throw a pebble in a lake and there is resonance. If the pebble is dirty, there is still resonance. There is a sense of purity. Thoughts create resonance. Sounds create resonance. Resonance is pristine, detached of the object. Appearing as tone colour, sound has the potential to become its own resonance, effortless and luminous.
(Thomas Köner)
NEW RECORDS (1 & 2): Roly Porter / Ben Monder / Tindersticks / Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto / Jon Balke (four tracks) / Tortoise / Yorkston, Thorn & Khan / Michel Benita / Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal // Thomas Köner / Tindersticks (second appearance) / Avishai Cohen / Lucinda Williams / Fire! / Ches Smith
CLOSE-UP: King Crimson – The Thrak Box Set (1994-97)
TIME TRAVEL (1): with Sun Ra, Count Ossie, David Bowie, Mikael Teraverdiev, Parush Parushev a.o. ((„Jon Ward’s Excavated Shellac focuses on ethnic music on 78’s. He’s one of the smartest obsessive record collectors I know, and the stuff he posts I would gladly pay to download … it is always stuff you would never hear anywhere else, nothing here on CD. This is the rarest of the rare and the best of the best. Stellar!“ – Steve Roden, Wire Magazine’s Web Exclusive))
TIME TRAVEL (2 & 3): Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infance (1996) // Bert Jansch: Avocet (1978) (Now lovingly released by Earth Recordings, this album sees Jansch at the height of his compositional powers)