Rechenzentrum
Silence
Weiser 2007

01. Terra Incognita
02. Eden
03. Jeru Salem
04. Rjublevs Refugium
05. Ignis
06. Pantokrator
07. Paradox
08. In Exercitium
09. Free from Care
10. 10 + 5
11. Expedition Existenz
12. On Return
13. Eye for an Eye

New DVD-only release from Rechenzentrum, breaking the group's four year silence... At least that's the thematic impulse behind the project. The DVD is a collision of music composed by Marc Weiser (a member of the Zeitkratzer ensemble), and visuals by video artist Lillevan. Apparently, the project draws its inspiration from the Russian icon painter Andrey Rjublev (brought to wider international fame by the Andrey Tarkovsky film of the same name), the intention being to avoid the subjectivity of artistic convention and instead embrace the idea of being a medium, or vessel, a state attainable only via the dissolution of the self. Or something like that. It's glitchy electronica really isn't it? It is however, beautiful as such, and very much an evolution of the kind of organic minimalism Rechenzentrum have excelled at previously. This time around the music is bolstered significantly by a host of instrumental performers and a melding of digital editing techniques with modern classical composition. The effects are actually rather accomplished, with a standard of production detail you'd be pretty hard-pressed to beat. Nice comeback.

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