Kalas Liebfried - Amp Wall Monument Confrontation

SVS Records

£30.48

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: SVS018
Barcode: 4251804140966
Release Date: 17 Feb 2023
Genre: Drone, Electronica, Doom

TRACKLISTS:
A1 - IT TOOK THE NIGHT TO DISBELIEVE
A2 - ENGINE OF FUTURE RUINS
B1 - IMPERIAL GHOSTS
B2 - SINK THE BISMARCK
B3 - BREATHE THE FREQUENCY
C1 - IT TOOK THE NIGHT TO DISBELIEVE - LAMIN FOFANA REWORK C2 - ENGINE OF FUTURE RUINS -
FRKTL REWORK
C3 - IMPERIAL GHOSTS - ELSA M‘BALA REWORK
D1 - SINK THE BISMARCK - CEDRIK FERMONT REWORK
D2 - BREATHE THE FREQUENCY - JAY GLASS DUBS REWORK

AMP WALL MONUMENT CONFRONTATION critically engages with the imperialist history of the Otto von Bismarck Monument at the Deutsches Museum in Munich by re-contextualising it through sound and performance. For one day in June 2021, a sculpture made of 21 guitar amplifiers was installed in front of the monument, with seven electric guitars connected to it. Seven guitarists performed a four-hour drone composition.

Sides A and B comprise arrangements of the sound material recorded on site, taking up the structure of the score. Sides C and D feature interpretations of the same material by Lamin Fofana, Sarah Badr aka FRKTL, Elsa M'bala, Cedrik Fermont and Jay Glass Dubs. The LP is accompanied by a booklet with the original score and an essay by the Australian art historian Damian Lentini (curator, Haus der Kunst, Munich), which proposes further perspectives to a critical engagement with German colonial history and current polyphonic postcolonial discourses.