Avant-garde band Kammerflimmer Kollektief releases a new album

After 20 years of Kammerflimmer Kollektief, withten albums thus far, the time has come to take a trip. The Karlsruhe combo guide us through seven stations in an unfathomable Terra Incognita, where a listening space emerges at the intersection of improvisation and composition, a space where certitude slips out of reach, jouncing incessantly between precision and freedom, oscillating furiously between cut-up and palimpsest – and, just when we think we may have pinned it down, disappears altogether.

This album entitled “There are actions which we have neglected and which never cease to call us” is one of the fearless: wordlessly conjuring up enchanted places in the richest of tones, simultaneously confronting us with magic which captivates us and the excruciating realisation that we may never be released from its spell.

Here is something which cannot be voiced: avant-garde, improvisation, psychedelia, whichever labels are stuck on the Karlsruhe collective, they all feel patently unsatisfactory.
Like all music, their music can neither be narrowed down to concepts nor fixed semantically. It cannot be organised as language, with a sound or image corresponding to specific points observed by sender and recipient alike, yet it is no more pre-conceptual in the sense of: first come the conditions of music, then one learns to discuss them. The Karlsruhe artists practise other-conceptuality. This is cata-language. Music from who the fuck knows where.

Listen to a few tunes from the new album, here: https://soundcloud.com/bureau-1/kammerflimmer-kollektief?in=bureau-1/sets/kammerflimmer-kollektief-there-are-actions-which-we-have-neglected-snippets 

Article & Image source: Bureau B