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Ferndorf | 
| Artist: Hauschka
Label: Fat Cat
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 34158
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1308
UPC: 600116130822
EAN: 0600116130822
ASIN: B001BP2YMU
Release Date: September 22, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Blue Bicycle | | • | Morgenrot | | • | Rode Null | | • | Freibad | | • | Barfuss Durch Gras | | • | Heimat | | • | Nadelwald | | • | Schones Madchen | | • | Eltern | | • | Alma | | • | Neuschnee | | • | Weeks Of Rain |
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| Customer Reviews:
Elegant compelling chamber music October 5, 2008
russell clarke (halifax, west yorks)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Anyone who has heard and enjoyed the work of Harold Budd, Steve Reich, Michael Nyman or John Cage should find Ferndorf a fascinating listen . Cage is probably the most apt comparison as Dusseldorf-based pianist and composer Volker Bertelmann, who records as Hauschka has a similar avant garde approach to playing the piano as Cage , or rather did- He often modifies the piano in the middle of live concerts in order to provoke different sounds and textures from it and his last album utilised this "prepared piano" technique .
br /However for Fendorf ( named after a German village) he has gone back to piano basics but expanded the instrumentation with violin (by Sabine Baron), cello (by Insa Schirmer and Donja Djember), and trombone (by Bernhard Voelz). Elegant deceptively simple but pleasingly melodic piano themes are augmented by counterpoint strings which sometime drift into an extension of an existing melody or arrangement.
br /This is lovely elegant melodically compelling chamber music that over 12 tracks very rarely palls and in one or two instances is genuinely sonically compelling. "Rode Null" (named after a mountain near his parents home) is centred around a thrumming bass while perky strings pirouette over the top. Trumpet percolates through "Freibad" while "Barfuss Durch Gras" trickles electronic tics trills and plinks over a gradual emersion of sombre piano notes .Its as fascinating a piece of music as I have heard in a long time. "Eltern" incorporates phased electronics while "Heimat " has an instrument- woozily recorded- so it fades in and out of the mix that sounds slightly eastern but for which I have no real clue what it is. The sleeve notes don't help either.....anyway it's slightly bizarre( the track not the sleeve notes ) but massively engaging .
br /More of this and less of the simple piano/string combinations might have made Ferndorf into a truly extraordinary album . Mostly though Bertlemann goes for melodic simplicity-Schones Madchen" and the stately "Alma" are especially fine- but it's when the album is ingrained with textural depth that it really mesmerizes.
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