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Firat‎ | D​î​jla

by Fließgewässer

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Firat‎ | Dîjla was released via Otomatik Muziek:
otomatikmuziek.bandcamp.com/album/firat-di-jla

"Originally, this tape was planned as an accompanying tape to FLIESSGEWÄSSER’S month-long tour of Europe, which, you guessed right, didn’t happen because of C-19.

Fließgewässer is the alias of Spain-based artist Philipp Heinzelbecker, who became part of the OM family somewhen in autumn 2019, when OM-stalwarts Hager/Kaputt, the overwhelmingly great William Luke Valerio and Fließgewässer shared a gig. A short power breakdown that evening killed Heinzel’s synthesizer, which was his main source of sound. He then started to throw himself into a freestyle set with machines lent by the other musicians – and he dove headfirst into a slowly-building, neo-baroque organ impression of melancholic beauty and an emotional openness that affected the whole room.

This was a fine example of how Fließgewässer functions – Heinzelbäcker incorporates what surrounds him and transforms it into sound. „Firat | Dîjla“ works just as that. An impromptu session with Marta Morant on clarinet and Nicolas Dobson on drums that started after watching a documentary on the ruthless building of dams in south-east Anatolia by Turkey’s demagogic president Reccep Tayyip Erdogan, with additional synth work overdubbed afterwards, turned into a stream of free-flowing new age sounds with references to anatolian folk music popping up here and there, tender percussion improvs and refined clarinet expressions.

The sole track on the B-side of the tape – „Below the stork’s nest“ – is a sombre elegy, alternating between an endless dulcimer rite, surfacing field recordings, a trumpet resembling the cornet work of Cosey Fanni Tutti and: a violin. The original version of „Firat | Dîjla“ featured a lot of quotes from the BBC-produced documentary „So Water is Turkey’s Oil“. Shying away from the fear of copyright infringements, we asked Heinzel to remove them; about half a day later, in true Fließgewässer fashion, he sent a whole new set of files with him playing a deranged violin instead of the original quotes. That was the final point, the being-struck-by-lightning-moment when we knew this one was perfectly finished. Glimpses of Hassell’s fourth-world music spelled out over european post-industrial music like Coil, and, within the flushes of deeply honest consternation which interweave the whole recording, a very political set of songs."

credits

released April 21, 2020

Marta - clarinet on "Heskîf".
Nicolas - percussion on "Heskîf".
Heinzel - prologue synthesizer, trumpet, casio, violin, field recordings, voices recording and editing.

Available on green cassette in a riso printed cover.
On krimskramz.com
Or from Otomatik Muziek or Alibikonkret in Germany.

If you want to organise a concert, please get in touch via fliessgewaesser@krimskramz.com

Thanks!

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Fließgewässer Barcelona, Spain

"Fließgewässer" is intentionally mysterious, playful ambient/noise, now rather electroacoustic music originated from random conversations on a generally uncertain future that obliges to improvise always.

Usually playing live or at least motivated to do so. Info: krimskramz.com/fliessgewaesser/

Additional stuff:
soundcloud.com/h1el

Mail: fliessgewaesser@krimskramz.com
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