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INNOCENT WASTELAND - The New Ambient/Classical CD Of
Viennese Musician Gerald Krampl
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nicholasg980
on 2010-01-31 10:26 [#02363352]
Points: 82 Status: Regular
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Website: http://www.indigomusic.at http://www.broadjam.com/player/player.php?play_file=15979_4 Music: 60111
"Classic & Minimalism meets Electronic" - this could possibly be a short description for the new release of Viennese pianist, keyboarder and composer Gerald Krampl.
With Innocent Wasteland he has this time radically turned away from commercial concessions like radio playability, easy accessibility, clear song structures etc., in favor of a more free, back to his personal roots reaching musical comprehension.
The music on the album stays except two electronica tunes on a minimalistic base of piano and a maximum of two more synthetic string sounds (viola or violin + cello), but extended with various electronic and nature sound effects which add to the whole the character of a soundtrack.
Also one thing in mind was, that it should be possible to easily perform this music live with a small kind of chamber music ensemble, which hopefully can be realized in the near future.
The overall theme of this very reflective and somber, from classic and minimalism influenced album, which could nearly be seen as a concept album, is in general devoted to the endless cycle of destruction and the afterwards always following new awakening.
Besides Gerald's concern with spiritual and meditative music with his "Agnus Dei" project (combined New Age music & poetry and was formed in 1999 together with his wife and poet Hilde, who sadly passed away in 2002) and a classical fairy tales project also with especially composed meditative music accompanied (together with speaker Corinna Steinboeck, 2009), is his trend to create music for pictures constantly getting stronger.
On one side for concretes, as for the multimedia projects of the Viennese producer Andreas Pflanzl / woom:mediaV3:
www.31projects.at - web presentation + TV documentary about the Holocaust/Auschwitz, therefore written the music and released an expanded soundtrack CD, 2007.
www.7minuten.at - web presentation with "disability" as the th
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