Zarek 01
Perlonex – Perlon
The first longplayer of the group recorded in May 1999 also being the first release of the new Zarek label.
Ignaz Schick (electronics), Joerg Maria Zeger (guitars) and Burkhard Beins (percussion).
CD-R (Zarek 01) out of print
Zarek 02
Ignaz Schick – Tabit
Wires, piezos, contact mics, digital & analog feedback, mixingboard noises & hiss, overdriven bassfilters, distorted no-input, fastforwarded footage, extreme high frequency manipulation, distorted ground, ...
Mainly the pieces are about investigating the possibilties of using samples or acoustic footage as a trigger for more abstract structures and form
CD-R (Zarek 02) • Euro 12.- • Best.-Nr. 1024
Zarek 03/04
Ignaz Schick’s Decollage 3 – Live. Vol. 1 & 2
A double CD documenting a concert in March 1999.
Recorded by the Bavarian Radio (Bayrischer Rundfunk).
2CD-R (Zarek 03/04) • Euro 20.- • Best.-Nr. 1025
Zarek 05
Ignaz Schick/ Andrea Neumann – Petit Pale
The first CD documenting 4 year long collaboration. Lot’s of hiss, buzzes, click’s ‘n noises.
Ignaz Schick (electronics) & Andrea Neumann (inside-piano, electronics). Recorded in 2000.
CD (Zarek 05) • Euro 14.- • Best.-Nr. 1033
Zarek 06
Burkhard Beins/ Keith Rowe – Grain
Two fantastic studio tracks and one piece recorded live documenting the first meeting of two European giants.
Recorded 2000.
Reviews
CD (Zarek 06) • Euro 14.- • Best.-Nr. 1034
Zarek 07
Perlonex – Peripherique
The second longplayer of the group recorded live on their extensive European tour in December 2000 at Instants Chavires. Monochrome and extremely minimal layers. Recommended.
CD (Zarek 07) • Euro 14.- • Best.-Nr. 1035
Zarek 08
iovae – Quatervois: Four-Track Magnetic Tape Arrangements
Finally the overdue and long awaited re-release of IOVAE’s Quatervois which came originally as a limited CD-R release on Drone Disco. IOVAE, native of Cincinnati is a true alchemist, working out lo-fi tape collages and simple four track assemblages. He uses unusual sound sources and layers these into rather dense and industrial etudes of found sound. Iovae (Ron Orovitz) has been playing with sound in the culturally insular confines of Cincinnati Ohio since circa 1988. Initially, tape & turntable manipulations were the medium. Through the 1990s, more and more unique sound sources were sought to serve as the subject of developing manipulative techniques. Scientific instruments such as tone generators became a favorite tool, as well as the fashioning of various “procussion” instruments (utilizing fire-works). The recordings herein demonstrate some of these sonic characteristics as composed and processed stochastically (Xenakis is the inspiration in this respect) upon a four-track recorder.
CD (Zarek 08) • Euro 14.- • Best.-Nr. 1037
Zarek 09
Andrea Ermke – Pike
Andrea Ermke is one of the most unknown and underestimated sound artists of the so-called Berlin scene. Self-taught, she has been working with field recording, sampling & hands-on sounds since about 1995. She has developed a very personal and uncompromising style of collage which is more influenced by Australian sound art than Berlin’s reductionists. She has worked/collaborated among others with Tony Buck, Jim Denley, Stevie Wishart, John Butcher, Chris Abrahams, Ignaz Schick, Annette Krebs, Margareth Kammerer, Leonid Sobeylmann, Nicholas Bussmann,... She was member of the groups Guest Star and Cox Orange and currently performs with Organic (w Thomas Charbonnel, Pablo Juanes) and Tree (w Chris Abrahams & Burkhard Beins) She uses simple equipment (Sampler, MiniDisc) to archive rather complex and dense pieces and she is not afraid of incorporating narrative notions. Andrea Ermke lives and works in Berlin.
mCD (Zarek 09) • Euro 10.- • Best.-Nr. 1038
Zarek 10
Margareth Kammerer/Ruby Ruby Ruby – The Shadow Of Your Smile
Margareth Kammerer (vocals, acoustic guitar)
Derek Shirley (bass)
Steve Heather (drums)
with guests Axel Doerner (trumpet), Michael Thieke (clarinet), Thomas Meadowcroft (organ) & Tobias Delius (tenor sax)
“When I asked Margareth Kammerer about doing an album with Billy Holiday tunes or jazz standards she simply declared “You are Crazy! No Way!”. A little time later she came up to me “you know, I thought about your idea …”. Shortly after that in about 2005 I organized a no-budget Zarek label festival in the Berlin venue Ausland, mainly because there hadn’t been releases out for quite a while, and asked Maggy to contribute a set as a future artist of the label. She came up on stage with a big surprise doing her first versions of jazz standards, purely on vocals and guitar with no backing band. As expected she had turned the tunes into something totally own and unique, truely Maggy universe.
Everything I had imagined she could do with the songs she’d done that night. Paying little attention to the conventions she had made them completely her own, with a very special timbre and intonation and her unique accompanyments. She did what any great artist of this so big history had done: playing her own music on the base of a given melody & text. It was a long process of several years to release this album, from finding the right (backing) band to finalizing the mixes & graphic design, but as it is timeless sound, there is no right or wrong moment for putting out this release.”
Ignaz Schick, 03/2009
CD (Zarek 10) • Euro 14.- • Best.-Nr. 1039
Zarek 11/12
PERLONEX & CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE – IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO
Ignaz Schick (tube sine wave, bows, onjects, turntable)
Joerg Maria Zeger (stomp boxes, guitars)
Burkhard Beins (drums, percussion, objects, zither)
Charlemagne Palestine (fazoli grand piano, vocals, cognac glass)
“In early December 2006 a live performance of Perlonex & Charlemagne Palestine took place at the Viennese jazz club Porgy & Bess, recorded and broadcasted by the Austrian radio ORF in 2006 & remastered at Amann Studios Vienna in 2008.
Inspired by the club’s name and the chance meeting of a far relative of the Gershwin family Palestine incorporated “It Aint Necessarily So” from the great American songbook into the proceedings.
But if you would now expect an apt version of the tune you are definitely on the wrong track.
It is more like a recurring quotation of both melody and text embedded in Perlonex’ fine drones & raw noisy musique concrete and Palestine’s extensive piano strummings.
At some point Palestine is turning the lyrics into clear statements about the state of our times, answered by Perlonex with a blast of dark & fierce noise.
Two years after the first meeting of Perlonex & Palestine in 2004 this concert documents a truely magic moment of the collaboration which has become an ongoing project. You could say Palestine has become almost a steady member of the group and is very much integrated in Perlonex’ music. Although the tapes were directly mixded down to stereo DAT and therefore only small approvements to the sound could be made afterwards, we still think it makes a rewarding
listening.”
2CD (Zarek 11/12) • Euro 18.- • Best.-Nr. 1040
Zarek 13
SNAKE FIGURES ARKESTRA – COOKS & DEVILS
Ignaz Schick (turntable, objects, organ pipes, bows, cymbals, looper)
Marcel Türkowsky (modified walkmen, memory box, realia objects, tapes, looper)
“Throughout the last 2-3 years & until now mainly active as an obscure recording project with a shared passion for little instruments and armed with childish curiosity this duo is oscillating between post-plunderphonics, electronica, psychedelic music, fake folk, noise & drones. Lots of strange atmospheres, many weird sounds. The live premiere of this obscure project was in 2008. The unit opperates with different guest musicians (Christoph Heemann, Michael Northam, ...) and can strongly change musical context, identity or instrumentation. The music of this mini-CD was the result of a short & intense phase of rehearsals at the Kuenstlerhaeuser Worpswede during Schick’s residency and was recorded live at an opening at the Kunstverein Goettingen. Both members who back in different generations are deeply rooted in the Berlin experimental underground and are founders/members of bands as diverse as Perlonex, Phosphor, Blind Snakes (Ignaz Schick) or Kinn, Wooden Veil, Datashock, Cones (Marcel Türkowsky).”
mCD (Zarek 13) • Euro 10.- • Best.-Nr. 1041