"pop and hell"

Not sure the lovely Dietmar Dath collaboration Im erwachten Garten (full Spotify stream) has yielded up all it has to offer yet. But a new Kammerflimmer Kollektief album - Wilding (Staubgold) - is already upon us: "file under: psychedelic/intuitive/mongrel music".

Still trying to track down the Lee Perry cover it appears to contain (Spotty original). But two originals - Move Right In & Time is the Fire in Which We Burn - are streaming chez Kammerflimmer & a third - Spookin' the Horse - is up via SoundCloud.

Initial impression is of a somewhat lighter, rather twangier sound. But the trademark dense, slow voice/sax/bass/percussion matrix is intact - & still a thing of wonder. Time is the Fire has a welcome propulsiveness too. Must hear more!

Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Spookin' The Horse

Hear pretty well all of KK up to Wilding via this playlist (yes, Spotty again...).



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Supplementary benefits

Follow-ups/expansions of a couple of recent posts (this one & this) in ambient-ish post-jazz/post-rock territory...

You'll wish Kammerflimmer's effortless coda "There's a weight..." would go on forever. Infuriatingly, though with impressive self-confidence, it's over in moments. Their version of Robert Wyatt's Venti Latir is satisfyingly insistent, intensifying into a clonking, squawking climax - & then climbing down again a bit sheepishly.

A trio of extracts from some obscurer Rameses III instrumentals, welded into an LMYE 'hack', kicks off with the frazzled, sun-coming-up riffage of Ashes. It pauses for a moment's breath with the gentle, reflective Tidal Draw, before culminating in the twangy warmth & washes of September Morning Rain.

Kammerflimmer Kollektief > "There's a weight on you, but you can't feel it" (from Cicadidae, Staubgold/Temporary Residence) > Venti Latir (from Incommunicado, Temporary Residence)

Rameses III > Extracts [LMYE hack] (from Ashes on Matanuska, Music Fellowship; The Tidal Draw on Gold Leaf Branches [VA], Digitalis Industries; September Morning Rain on Kanoja, Myos Hanoja [VA], 267 lattajjaa)

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"about as not me as it gets"

Oops. My recent suggestion* to a revered singer looking for worthwhile new collaborations was a fart in a spacesuit-style misjudgement: "'warped post-jazz' is about as not me as it gets," she noted.

Fair enough. But still, for some of us Kilimanjaro Darkjazz/Bohren und Der Club of Gore/Kammerflimmer Kollektief are operating in fantastically fertile territory. Kilimanjaro's vast & awesomely open-eared cover of doomsters St Vitus' Patra & their own Shadows show why.

* via Soundcloud & Twitter rather than over cocktails. But nice to be asked, all the same...

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble > Patra (self-released) > Shadows (from Mutations, Ad Noiseam)

NB: Kilimanjaro now hawking another cover (Moondog's Bird's Lament) & a new live improv album from spin-off The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation...

Bonus: Rameses III (a kind of brooding, glacially unfolding kissing cousin to Kilimanjaro/Bohren/Kammerflimmer) > Matanuska (from Matanuska, Music Fellowship)

Note to self: need to track down the Gregg Kowalsky remix of Rameses. & bring on the new Type release, 'I Could Not Love You More'.

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Clunking & clattering

Something nicely clunking & clattering for the weekend - Nemeth > Transitions (from Film, Thrill Jockey)

Co-founder of mosz, Nemeth is also in Radian > the lovely, scratchy post-jazz of Shift & Nord (from Juxtaposition, Thrill Jockey; NB: extracts) & Etage 3/Flur (from rec.extern, Thrill Jockey). 

[That also reminds me to dig out the fine Radian remix of Kammerflimmer on Staubgold...]

Clearly incapable of a moment's inactivity, he's in the spacey lokai too...

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Clicks, washes, squawks, riffs & twangs

I love Kammerflimmer's assurance, their confidence that what jazzy drum 'n' bass really needs is their highly idiosyncratic mixture of clicks, washes, squawks, riffs & twangs over the top of it.

They're right, of course. For proof, take a listen to Lichterloh from 2005's brilliant Absencen (buy here)...