Sundaze 1149

Hello, as 2011 draws to a close amidst financial turmoil brought to you by the anglo-american banksters operating from Wall Street and The City that keep pointing to Europe as the problem, when back home their valuta is held up by insane amounts of virtual money pumped into the systems to keep them from going under. What these people are doing is pumping up an illusion that will burst as the synapses of the brains behind it will snap, and that would be a fitting punishment for these financial 'wizards' ..have their brains fried. We need a world war is heard from those quarters, more proof of their insanity.

Unfortunately the governments in the US and UK are completely controlled by these moneymen and the 99 % can go and die as far as these are concerned, when will the people wake up, or have they been too drugged with fluoridated water, saturated food and moronic entertainment not to mention the propaganda media and their whores owned by the 1% ? Depressing, specially because it's all so unnecessary...gotta quit here..this is a music blog after all and today in the spotlight the German duo of Tarwater electronic postrock but as you will notice their music is rather filmic not surprisingly as they scored many a movie and documentary as well.

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Guitarist/bassist/programmer Jestram and drummer/vocalist/programmer Lippok met in an East German punk band, and began recording together even while Lippok recorded with To Rococo Rot and Jestram worked in his Bleibeil studio. First recordings under the name Tarwater (named after C. Tarwater, a musician appearing in the credits for recordings of late 60s psychedelic band "Love".) took place in 95 as did their first concert at the art festival "LBRNTH" at the historical Brühlschen Terassen in Dresden. Their first audio release "John Donne Death's Duell" is an audio / book package where Tarwater provided the music score.

A bit more organic and much more tied to pop than To Rococo Rot, Tarwater debuted with 1996's 11/6 12/10, released on the Berlin based label Kitty-yo. Around the same time that Lippok's other concern (To Rococo Rot) issued their first material. More movie soundtrackwork in 97 . "Rabbit Moon" (CD/EP) is released on Kitty-yo. Remixes and alternative versions of Tarwater tracks by Elektronauten, Bo Kondren, Robert Lippok and Tarwater themselves, it got an extended US release version to support their first tour there (Austin Texas, Chicago, New York , Philadelphia).

Tarwater's second LP, Silur, followed in 1998. Early december they played several radioshows in the UK ( John Peel. Gilles Peterson and Johnathan More) . Two more soundtracks in 99 .The critical praise attendant for Silur earned Tarwater American distribution deal with Mute. Animals, Suns & Atoms appeared in 2000 and Dwellers on the Threshold two years later with a bonus album containing some of their soundtrack work.

Meanwhile they appeared live at many festivals throughout Europe beteen 200 and 2005 when they released a new album "The Needle Was Travelling" at a new label "Morr" followed 2 years later by "Spider Smile" More soundtrackwork and earlier this year they releasedtheir latest album "Inside the Ships" and a 5cd compilationboxset 1996-2002. Considering one half of the duo, Ronald Lippok has released 11 albums with To Rococo Rot in the same timeframe, they have been busy ...Germans...

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Tarwater's debut is an eclectic mix of post-electronica, heavier on the guitar than many in the German post-rock crowd but also reliant on some very creative sampling. 11|6 12|10 veers from detuned trip-hop damage to twangy Kraut-rock. The production is exquisite, with an excellent balance of organic and artificial sound sources, though the many vocal turns are oddly detached as only the Germans can do it.

Tarwater – 11|6 12|10 (flac 290mb)

01 Theme 2:00
02 Tar 5:30
03 Han Er Den Inne 4:14
04 Euroslut 5:43
05 Rome 4:20
06 Conquer Rome Itself 0:52
07 New Brood 4:29
08 Kleenex 4:21
09 Elbow On The Quilt 3:12
10 Second Arthyr 5:04
11 Inversnaid 4:41

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Silur advances the focus on broad-ranging electronics from Tarwater's previous work to concentrate on Kraut-inspired mechanistic rhythms as a backdrop to an assortment of atmospherics ranging from scratchy '60s-pop samples, spoken-word passages, understated hip-hop turntablism, and some classic phaseshifter effects. The album combines spartan spoken-word narration with ambient, electronic music.

The album received some criticism for failing to maintain the same tone consistently throughout the album. The first five songs feature a slow, deliberate, almost ethereal tone. The mood is interrupted by the sixth song, "No More Extra Time," an up-tempo synth-pop song. The album's seventh song reverts back to the mood of the first five, however subsequent songs are progressively more pop-like than ambient.

Tarwater – Silur (flac 277mb)

01 Visit 4:16
02 To Moauf 2:31
03 The Watersample 5:13
04 Seafrance Cézanne 5:50
05 Silur 0:59
06 No More Extra Time 4:36
07 Otomo 2:37
08 Ford 3:59
09 The Pomps Of The Subsoil 3:50
10 20 Miles Up 4:01
11 To Describe You 3:54
12 V-AT 4:02

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Remixes and alternative versions of Tarwater tracks by Elektronauten, Bo Kondren, Robert Lippok and Tarwater themselves, it got an extended US release version to support their first tour there

Tarwater - Rabbit Moon Revisited (flac 298mb)

01 Rabbit Moon 4:42
02 A La N.A.S.A. 4:40
03 Strawberry Shoes 3:25
04 Second Aethyr 4:55
05 Transfrancisco 4:26
06 Inversnaid (Ncc Radio 505 Finder Remix) 3:38
07 Euroslut (Spectral Remix) 4:33
08 Rome 4:05
09 Mobile Home 4:59
10 Snaid 4:56
11 Tar Revisited 4:18
12 Trismin 2:44

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