Pure Sound Vs Carsten Vollmer - American Trilogy - 11 Января 2010

STYLE...... Field Recording, Noise, Spoken Word, Experimental
LABEL...... Field Muzick

PURE SOUND vs VOLLMER came about when
Carsten Vollmer suggested we sample each
other's work and write new material from
that. I knew how direct and
uncompromising Carsten's work was and
thought the collaboration would
highlight huge contrasts in the way
artists approach each other's work. I
was curious to see what he might do with
Pure Sound songs too - you couldn't get
much more different!

Working as Pure Sound I gather found
sounds to build a soundtrack for lyrics,
bass lines and piano melodies. When
Carsten sent me his 7ö singles this gave
me a number of ideas of samples I might
take. I work in Pro Tools so I selected
some cuts but then had to go to America
for work.

In America I gathered more sounds and
stored them alongside the Vollmer
samples. When I looked at the project
again on my return, suddenly things
started to happen. The Vollmer samples
started to work with a mic check by a
blues singer in Vicksburg and the sound
of a swamp running alongside the
Mississippi. Once I had a start, the
rest was easy.

This collaboration features the Pure
Sound AMERICAN TRILOGY, three tracks
using found sounds gathered while main
songwriter VINCE HUNT was in the United
States in 2008 and made with samples
taken from Carsten VOLLMER's vinyl
catalogue. Once finished the songs were
sent to Carsten VOLLMER for his
interpretation with his unique approach
to music.
THE AMERICAN TRILOGY

These are the sounds of New Orleans,
Chicago, Vicksburg, Minneapolis and St
Louis mixed up and fed into songs penned
on the road by Hunt. They feature the
sounds of boats on the Mississippi, the
calliope steam whistle from paddle
steamers in New Orleans; freight trains
going through Hannibal, Missouri; the
Chicago subway and the gravel under car
wheels from the Stovall Plantation,
where blues guitarist Muddy Waters grew
up.

These three songs are observations on
life, love and relationships; on what we
do with our time on this earth.

This is a collaboration between
Manchester based Pure Sound and noise
activist Carsten Vollmer from Essen,
Germany. He made Cut+Go=RMX of Pure
Sound's stories. 50 black mini CDr with
photocover, limited to 50.

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