{"id":1390,"date":"2024-07-08T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T08:04:06","slug":"1390","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"TAL 33 \/ Razen \/ Rain Without Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TAL 33
RAZEN
Rain Without Rain

LP (black vinyl) plus free DL

Release: 6. September 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Worldwide distribution:
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Forced Exposure
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Brecht Ameel: oscillator, harmonium
Kim Delcour: recorders, chalumeaus, bagpipe, shaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lazy Lazy Eye
Owl Monkey
Regret Regret
Hunt Hunt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rain Without Rain
Lazy Lung
Nagai Rouka<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recorded at pedestrian underpass between Kunsthalle Du\u0308sseldorf and Oper am Rhein, Du\u0308sseldorf, July 2023
Recording and mixing by Stefan Schneider.
Mastering by Detlef Funder at Paraschall, Du\u0308sseldorf, March 2024
Cover: Ward Desloovere, Lazy eye, woodcut, 56 x 38cm
Design: Christa Marek
Many thanks to Alicia Holthausen and Gregor Jansen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rain and experimental music have had an interesting connection for decades. Under the umbrella of American film music promotion, Hanns Eisler was already looking for „Vierzehn Arten, den Regen zu beschreiben\u201d (fourteen ways to describe the rain) in 1941. A good 20 years later, The Cascades interpreted the periodicity of rain as a rhythm of mourning. For the Beatles („If the rain falls, they run and hide their heads“), the precipitation inspired the band to use backward running tapes. However, it seems that there has always been a lot of rainfall in popular music. In the early seventies, David Toop and Paul Burwell even had a band project with the great name Rain In The Face…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was a long time ago and today, rain, which in the age of climate catastrophe mainly occurs as heavy rain or an enervating endless loop, has lost a great deal of its inspiring quality. Perhaps as a reminder of the musical quality of rain, but knowing full well that it can only be enjoyed in theory, Razen call their new album „Rain Without Rain“. In the music of the Brussels collective led by the two multi-instrumentalists Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour, it certainly pours down on the roofs. In fact, the album opens with the sound of pouring rain before we hear the sequence of an oscillator played through a guitar amp on the first track \u201eLazy, Lazy Eye\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album is the captivating result of an one-night mobile studio field recording in an abandoned pedestrian tunnel in the centre of D\u00fcsseldorf, and it is finding beauty with brutal(ist) means: recorder, oscillator, guitar amp and reverberation, two musicians and four microphones, early electronics versus Early Music. \u201cSuicide meet Hildegard von Bingen\u201d, as Stefan Schneider, who recorded the session, admits. \u201cGhostly occurrences\u201d, he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brecht Ameel states: \u201cWe do put a lot of weight and care on acoustics. On some of our recordings, the room acts as another band member, or as the main \u2018mixing board\u2019. Most of the albums we have recorded so far are not mixed in the traditional sense: they are simply \u201ecaptured\u201d, and we let the room decide what is left on the tapes. The studio recordings, then, give us the possibility of bringing other elements to the fore; precision of interplay, or tiny variations in breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group Razen exists since 2010 and has since released numerous records on labels such as KRAAK, Marionette and Hands In The Dark. „Rain Without Rain“ is their debut on the D\u00fcsseldorf label TAL. If there has been an increased international interest in experimental music from Belgium in recent years, this is not least due to musician collectives such as Razen. In terms of its electro-folkloristic intensity and instrumentation, Razen’s music is quite unique worldwide. What does Razen actually mean? \u201cWe took the word from a poem by Paul Van Ostaijen, not specifically because of its meaning but because of the way it looked on paper\u201d, Ameel explains. \u201cBut the meaning goes in the direction of \u2018thundering \/ raging \/ speeding\u2019 \u2026 although we prefer playing with a strong notion of restraint, building our world from (and with) silence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olaf Karnik, K\u00f6ln 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TAL 33RAZENRain Without Rain LP (black vinyl) plus free DL Release: 6. September 2024 Worldwide distribution: MORRForced ExposureBommkat Brecht Ameel: oscillator, harmoniumKim Delcour: recorders, chalumeaus, bagpipe, shaker A Lazy Lazy EyeOwl MonkeyRegret RegretHunt Hunt B Rain Without RainLazy LungNagai Rouka Recorded at pedestrian underpass between Kunsthalle Du\u0308sseldorf and Oper am Rhein, Du\u0308sseldorf, July 2023Recording and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-release"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}