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Timekeepers II
a-Musik, the Cologne-based bastion of sonic exploration, unveils a new chapter in their quest for boundary-pushing sounds. Timekeepers II, a split LP featuring recordings of two duos by Marcus Schmickler with Jaki Liebezeit and Hayden Chisholm. Side …
Magic Moments
FSK (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle, German meaning "voluntary self control") is a German band that was formed in Munich in 1980. It became involved in the underground-part of the German New-Wave-Scene of the early 1980s.
Magic Moments was originally r…
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle / Teilnehmende Beobachtung
Before their debut album "Stürmer", originally out in 1982 and reissued by a-Musik, there were two 7" by Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle. Both the eponymous 4-track EP (1980) by Justin Hoffmann, Thomas Meinecke, Michaela Melián and Thomas Meinecke and th…
Formationen
"The A-Musik label is back with a very special release by Jan Werner who played already an important role for the beginning of the label in 1995. His first release back then was the debut LP by Microstoria, werner's collaboration with Oval's Markus P…
The Present is Missing
a-Musik is honoured to present a new album by one of our all-time favourites, Anthony Moore. We've been faszinated by his work, both with Slapp Happy and solo, since quite a long time now, and are happy to release this LP with wonderful live recor…
Timekeepers
ten years after their "variety" cd a-musik present the brilliant second release by John Tilbury (piano) and Marcus Schmickler (computer). Recorded in january 2012 at Loft, Köln, mixed in december 2014 at piethopraxis.
Rule Of Inference
next to his prolific work as an electronic composer, improviser and producer, "rule of inference" once more features schmickler's as yet less known yet marvelous work as a composer and arranger for classical instrumental settings. similar to his w…
Navigation in hypertext
Lehn and Schmickler's 1st recording, Bart is considered one of the best synth improv albums ever made. Since Bart, dating back to 2000, the duo has toured frequently through Europe, Japan and the USA. This double-release, features some of the best pe…
House of national dog
"the first joint release of hamburg-based all-around artists felix kubin (music, sounds) and mariola brillowska (lyrics, vocals). for brillowska's 2006 theatre play of the same title, kubin composed a soundtrack in order to mess up this infamous musi…
Variety
"the piano's harmonic figures meet with computer sounds unexpectedly within a slowly changing acoustic environment. piano pixies sing and dance serenely in a virtual space while the noises from the instrument insitage dialogues with the computer. the…
Demos (for choir, chamber quintet and electronic music)
""demos" is schmickler's most ambitious work to date. it has been performed at the renowned cca in glasgow, where it was performed in the course of a three day festival organized especially for schmickler. "demos" deals with nietzsche's thoughts expr…
Wabi sabi
wabi sabi is a staggering sounding, beautifully packaged and simply significant contemporary electronic album by marcus schmickler out of the thriving german underground music scene. schmickler has one release under his own name on the odd size label…
Sator rotas
marcus schmickler aka wabi sabi (a3) aka pluramon expands his electronic experimentations, creating a surreal, open music that enraptures the listener with raging soundwaves and maximum density. expect the unexpected from the new school of improvised…
Villiger
"apparently they're an all-laptop quintet from lille, france (although i could be wrong about the geography), borne out of the ashes of sub rosa recording act/post-rock entity tone rec. this, their third release (see tracto flirt on skipp as well as …