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Koan - When The Silence Is Speaking




Producing sophisticated psychedelic Chill Out music is a discipline within the electronic music scene that is similar to playing Jazz in a certain respect: It needs maturity and extensive musical experience to go beyond the scope of standards, to become really good and extraordinary. This might have to do with the fact that this kind of music is not aiming a busy dance floor, rising its hands and shouting out loud during the breaks. Instead of that, it is made for the individual mind and therefore includes a less functional but pretty intellectual, mature and also very artistic moment. Seen in front of this background, the history of Koan gives some interesting hints about the astonishing musical quality of this Russian duo.

The early ninties with their wild and excessive Techno parties, exotic culture artifacts of another world, that brought Daniel Roeth to the scene: he experienced electronically generated Hard-Trance and Acid-Techno in the underground clubs of Moscow as a passionate DJ. Discovery of the fascinating creative possibilities that were offered by the tracker programs, first widespeard form of software based audio sequencers, some time later, made him neglect the turntables more and more often to dive deeper and deeper into his very own universe of sounds instead. In this situation it was only a question of time until he met William Grey known as dr. Klaxer, who was an essential part of the Demo-scene in later part of 80's. In those days Grey programmed his own 8-bit musical codes for Atari-800, Commodore-64, wrote PC tracker-modules and worked on experimental sound-design for independent gaming-industry. William always successfuly combined musical activity with his main work at ambulance service in Moscow as doctor. And his noisy-experimental solo-project called "Paranorma" dedicated to contemporary medical elaborations and real ambulance sound-atmospheres.



Label: Blue Tunes Recordings
Catalog#: BTRCD030
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 30 Nov 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Ambient




Joining their creative energies in a mutual studio in 1993 Roeth & Grey brought three projects to life: Vacuum Stalkes follows the idea of "Digital Dance Sampledelica" or "Digital Techno", which is Progressive in the original meaning of the term, Fatum Sci-Fi is a project dedicating abstract noise experiments, IDM and Minimal and finally the Chill Out project Koan became the most popular of these three. Beside these activities, Daniel Roeth is also busy with composing music for video games and Russian documentary films. In the end of 2008 Roeth & Grey launched new electro/minimal-progressive studio-act under eponymous alias.

After sixteen years of constant evolution, of trying and testing different hardware and software and finding the limits of their possibilities have formed a sound that is outstanding both in the ideas and arrangements behind it as well as its production quality. So Koan today represents top-notch Chill Out music that seeps into the listener's mind with touching harmonies and a mind bending brilliance. Beside being highly active in Russia, the duo has also chilled numerous international Trance festivals around the globe.
(Source/Copyright: http://www.myspace.com/koantunes )

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Und ich dachte schon, ich finde kaum noch Musik, die mir gefällt! Ich war wieder mal auf meinem Streifzug durch Goastore und Psyshop auf der Suche nach etwas Tollem. Oft suche ich anhand des Covers. Dabei schaue ich um welche Art von Cover es sich handelt. Ist es ein Foto oder eine digitale Montage. Oft steckt hinter abstrakten Bildern interessante Musik. Doch leider fand ich nichts mehr, was mir zusagen wollte. Also klickte ich wahllos herum und stieß so auf Koan. Ein Fund der seine Folgen mit sich zog. Eine Woche später stand die CD in meinem Regal: Koan - When The Silence Is Speaking.
Satte 13 € und ich kann ein klangliches Wunder erleben, dass unbeschreibbar ist. Auf dieser Platte ist wirklich jeder Titel ein absolutes Meisterwerk. Es handelt sich dabei um ambienten Downbeat vermischt mit Trance-Modulen. Die Musik ist sehr melodisch, ausgefeilt und weist wunderfolle, sowie neuartige Klänge auf. Genau so etwas suchte ich schon immer. Dieser Klang ist einfach unglaublich. 
Hinter Koan steckt das russische Duo Daniel Roeth und William Grey. Beide arbeiten schon seit frühen Jahren mit Musik und traten in so einigen Clubs Moskau´s auf. Sie trafen sich und arbeiteten nun als Roeth & Grey. Bisher sind zwei Studioalben entstanden, wobei Koan - When The Silence Is Speaking das bessere ist. Aber schluss mit dem geschwafel - hört euch die CD an, kauft sie und genießt sie.
Diese CD ist so so genial, dass ich beim Hören Gänsehaut bekomme. Und das mag schon was bedeuten. ;-)


Übrigens: Was bedeutet Koan?


Ein Koan ist ein Zen-Rätsel, dessen Lösung zur unmittelbaren Erfahrung der Erleuchtung führt, weil die Grenzen des logischen Denkens durchbrochen werden müssen. Diese Zen-Technik ist bereits  jahrhunderte lang  erprobt und bewährt, erfordert jedoch  absolutes Loslassens von herkömmlichen  Denkstrukturen.
Die Lösung kann nicht "erreicht" werden, der Durchbruch geschieht aber sobald die Zeit dazu reif ist.

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Goastore.ch,
Aamazon.de
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Titelliste:

1 Back To The Silent Lagoon (Blue Mix) 9:28
2 Selena's Song (Blue Mix) 10:59
3 After The Guiding Venus 7:57
4 The Island Of Deceased Ships 7:32
5 Dance Of Nereids 10:21
6 Odysseus Under The Old Tree 9:16
7 Underwater Moonlight (Blue Mix) 8:02
8 When The Silence Is Speaking 11:16
9 Dolphin And Eos 4:11


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1 Kommentare:

Anonym hat gesagt…

ein hammer dieses album, genau wie m-seven und kuba, die mozarts und beethovens des 21. jahrhunderts...

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