No sign by EKG (Ernst Karel & Kyle Bruckmann)
EKG's second full-length album, released on Sedimental (sedcd041) in 2005 (and still available as a paper-packaged CD: https://www.sedimental.com/news/index.php?ID=43 )
"EKG is capable of a langorous lyricism while in other cases this tendency is willfully crushed and ground down into a gritty landscape of fine-grained glass and silt. Open and inviting tones draw the listener in at the same time tenser noisy outbursts work to alienate. Tightly controlled grainy textures splutter to life and dissolve into hovering drones. The sequencing can be jarring (as when the largely open “Days” collides with the claustrophobic “Hours”), but the effect is of an irregular pendulum’s swing – a fevered and woozy oscillation through tension and release.” (Steve Rybicki, fakejazz.com)
Credits
Sedimental, 2005
Kyle Bruckmann – oboe, English horn and/or analog electronics
Ernst Karel – trumpet and/or analog electronics
recorded 2002-2004 by Ernst Karel in Chicago and San Francisco
except for part of track 4, recorded live by Tom Duff at ACME Observatory, Oakland
edited, mixed, mastered by Ernst Karel
drawing by Helen Mirra
design by Matthew Fass
License
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.Tags
Ernst Karel makes electroacoustic music and experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, and collaborates with filmmakers and artists in making audiovisual work.