Max Kohyt
MID_EVIL
Improvisations recorded on the MID_EVIL album do not aspire to reconstruct the past. However, its ghost hauntingly looms over the whole project referring - if only by bone scraping sounds transmuting into the noise of prepared gramophone records - to sonic archaeology and the phantasms concerning the era of phonographic breakthrough. This material touches on issues concerning continuity in history and tradition, recording sounds and tones, as well as musical structures and practices.These are al…
Nights Are Numbered
"Nights Are Numbered" LP forms a world of apparent apocalyptic ambience of sounds which are produced mainly with conventional instruments such as double bass, grand piano or accordion, however, located outside their classical use, but also with some contrasting, organic and archetypal objects such as bones or dried plants, amplified in studio conditions. This specific accord of dissonances coming from various sources shifts the listener into the realm of sonoric experiment [...] The rich, meticu…