Black To Comm - At Zeenath Parallel Heavens [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.:  THRILL599CD
Barcode: 0790377059922
Release Date: 20 Oct 2023
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

 Over the course of 20 years, German artist Black To Comm (Marc Richter) has pushed the limits of / and merged the aesthetics of art, conceptual installations, and music, coming in a wave of innovation alongside his peers Pita, Fennesz, and later Sarah Davachi to name a few.
 Through it all, Richter as Black to Comm has challenged assumptions, explored identity, and confronted the concept of authorship itself. ‘At Zeenath Parallel Heavens’ finds Black To Comm contemplating the hybridity within each and every one of us, be it sexual, racial, cultural, or linguistic.
 Richter mirrors personal dualities musically with a combination of sounds he created and manipulated samples, blurring their boundaries. “I always try to blur the line between sampling and my own recordings, also between ‘real’ instruments, MIDI, electronics, editing, between authenticity and theatrics/artificiality,” says Richter. When recording he became aware of how AI text programs processing resembles his own methods. “I had the realization recently that the way I compose is not too dissimilar to what AI software is doing nowadays - especially when the AI is hallucinating (this is the term used when the AI is overloaded / overcharged / inundated and comes up with made-up results).” Human behaviour reflected in a computer facsimile of human intelligence appealed to the ethos of Black To Comm, whose titles and concepts are often oblique and tongue-in-cheek.
 “In Black To Comm’s music, we likewise feel ourselves to be plowing across wastelands of aestheticized violence and apocalyptic beauty” - Pitchfork
 “Marc Richter’s fondness for altered records marks him as an evil twin of Philip Jeck or Leyland Kirby.” - Pitchfork
 “An impressive balancing act evident of an artist in complete command of his medium” - The Quietus
 “Black To Comm... has graced the world with an artform that cannot be summed up in a single word” - Invisible Oranges
 Available to independent retailers on either turquoise coloured or black vinyl.
 LP formats include digital download card.

Tracklisting
Then Began the Harp to Fashion
Steep Thy Plumage in His Sweetness
Never Heed the Tongues of Wooers
Time Will Fly on Equal Pinions
La société des rêves
Musik im Schatten
Schleim des Nichtwissens
On the Grass Her Shoes of Deer-Skin