Plays

by Ekkehard Ehlers

Plays cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 October 2002
  • Label: Staubgold
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:15:49
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Ekkehard Ehlers's 'Plays' collects his acclaimed series of 7-inch singles, each dedicated to and sonically interpreting a different artistic figure like John Cassavetes and Cornelius Cardew. The compilation masterfully blends avant-garde electroacoustic textures with glitchy, repeating samples, acting as a crucial document of the early 2000s click-and-cut movement. It stands as a deeply emotive, highly conceptual achievement in modern minimalism.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, minimalistic, improvisation, instrumental, atmospheric, sampling

Tracklist

  1. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Cornelius Cardew (4:01)
  2. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Cornelius Cardew (4:03)
  3. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Hubert Fichte (10:01)
  4. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Hubert Fichte (9:59)
  5. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes (9:58)
  6. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes (9:57)
  7. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Albert Ayler (10:01)
  8. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Albert Ayler (9:45)
  9. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Robert Johnson (4:04)
  10. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Robert Johnson (4:00)

Credits

  • Anka Hirsch - cello
  • Ekkehard Ehlers - primary artist, producer, written-by, guitar
  • Diedrich Diederichsen - liner notes
  • Joseph Suchy - mastered by, guitar
  • Peter Fey - mastered by
  • Stephan Mathieu - producer

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