Музыка и песни Apparat (Ring, Sascha) / Apparat (Ring, Sascha) на CD

The album will be Apparat's first solo full-length since 2007's Walls. Since then, the Berlin-based artist has spent most of his time working with Modeselektor as Moderat, putting out an acclaimed LP in 2009 and touring the world with a visually-enhanced Record Label: Mute - Aip Style: Smooth Jazz

Apparat, aka Sascha Ring, announces the release of “Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)”, an album of music based on Sebastian Hartmann’s theatre production of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. The project was intended to be over with the last performance of the play, a release was never planned, but they found they hadn’t fully exhausted the potential of the songs yet. “Because it evolved out of a process, and transformed all the time, there’s always been a certain freshness to it.” explains Ring. Beautiful motifs only popped up for seconds before they faded again in the performance so the trio decided to give it a try, went into a studio and drifted, meandered through their musical achievements: “In the studio the material got another twist, became a real piece of music. I took the recordings with me, wherever I was – at home, at a hotel room, in an airplane, and straightened it up. I decided to not go completely crazy about the editing, I didn’t want the music to become demanding. Every record tends to become mere work at some point. Euphoria then turns into the feeling that you are standing in the middle of a huge construction site. I actively wanted to avoid this feeling this.” For Apparat, aka Berlin-based Sascha Ring, experiments in sound are strongly linked to exploring emotions. Over the course of seven album releases he has developed a multifarious, emotional universe. From early works, such as “Multifunktionsebene“ (2001) and “Duplex“ (2003), which took the abstractness out of electronic music and introduced a new spectrum of feelings beyond electronics’ well-tested modes, through collaborations with Ellen Alien (Orchestra of Bubbles) and Modeselektor (as Moderat), Apparat is always in transition. In 2010 he founded the Apparat Band and opened himself to a new sonic cosmos that culminated into “The Devil’s Walk” (2010), his first release on Mute. Record Label: Mute Artists Ltd Style: Alternative Pop

Record Label: !K7 Style: Electronic

Style: Electronic

Style: Electronic

Style: Independent

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Box/64 S.Booklet CD 1 - DU KRAUTROCK à la NEW WAVE / CD 2 – INDIE, ELECTRONICA & EXPERIMENTAL STEP 1 (1997-2004) / CD 3 – INDIE, ELECTRONICA & EXPERIMENTAL STEP 2 (2004-2008) / CD 4 - ELECTRO CLASH & PERFORMERS / CD 5 - TECHNO, HOUSE & MINIMAL / CD 6 - B Record Label: Naive Style: Dance

Nice, concise collection of chamber pieces and experimental sketches for theatre recorded by Apparat and a close coterie of musicians last year and now available on Mute. The earnest string lament of '44' is reminiscent of one of Max Richter's most intimate works, or one of Michael Nyman's less mannered compositions for Peter Greenaway, and despite existing in the shadow of such noted practitioners it delivers the goods, no question. The same track is put through a grinder of distortion and dub abstraction on the so-called 'Noise Version', invoking the plaintive drift of William Basinski, Wolfgang Voigt and even recent Mike Shiflet. 'Tod' - that's 'Death', folks - is a particular highlight, its plangent guitars consumed by teeming field recordings and dolorous drones a la Fennesz's Black Sea, while 'Blank Page' tackles the modern-classical-meets-dark-ambient formula beloved of the Miasmah crew, but with a generously melodic - let's say pop - sensibility that Apparat has honed over the course of his solo career. Other highlights on this enjoyable if ephemeral selection include 'Pv' - which reaches a soaring, post-rock climax that will surely be fighting off competition from Sigur Ros to soundtrack the next advert for a BBC nature documentary - and the almost folksy 'K&F Thema (Pizzicato)'. Apparat fans are rewarded with two full-blown vocal numbers, 'Lighton' and 'A Violent Sky'. Record Label: Mute Artists Ltd Style: Pop

Artist: Apparat Label: Mute U.S.