Andrew Pekler / Jib Kidder / Lucrecia Dalt / CE Schneider Topical
Presented by Care Of Editions
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Andrew Pekler was born in 1973 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. His family immigrated to the United States in 1980. Since 1995 he has resided in Germany.
Pekler’s approach to music-making and sound has evolved considerably over the years but has remained in essence an experiment with found materials, be they samples, instruments or genre conventions.
Among other things, Pekler has electronically investigated the emotional sweep and grain of easy listening music, composed an entire album from short text descriptions of what the music should sound like, and installed a record shop in an art gallery in order to sell one record with 300 different covers.
Andrew Pekler has composed music for film, dance and theater, produced video and sound installation works and played numerous concerts and festivals in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia.
Andrew Pekler’s 2011 album Sentimental Favourites received the Qwartz Electronic Music Award for best album.
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Jib Kidder is the performing moniker of musician and artist Sean Schuster-Craig. Born in Lousiville, raised in Georgia, educated in Michigan and bouncing between California and New York ever since, he has spent the last decade exploring a variety of approaches to psychedelic collage. In his audio recordings, songs, videos, sculptures, digital paintings, chalk murals & written work he has attempted to harness the humor and ambiguous poignancy specific to the experience of dreaming.
Under the moniker Joyn Holzcek, Sean Schuster-Craig will release his upcoming album, New Works for Realistic Mixer, on Care Of Editions in spring 2015.
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Lucrecia Dalt first discovered the craft of music after a brief career as a civil engineer in MedellĂn, Colombia. Since that time, she has ventured equally far into popular genres and experimental techniques, collaborating with MedellĂn’s Series Media Collective, Berlin’s F.S.Blumm and Gudrun Gut, Los Angeles’ Julia Holter, and, most recently, international collective, Human Ear Music. In this time, she has always balanced the sharp mind of a methodical thinker with the restless heart of a passionate artist, gradually seeking a way to create hand-crafted mental states through sound. Her long commitment to this pursuit has resulted, not to an overt confrontation of style versus intellect, but, rather, to a beguiling and subtle way of making accessible music that, nonetheless, feels like an invitation to risk, and a sensual approach to complexity. Over time, she has developed a sophisticated performance experience that falls squarely in the technical world of electronic producers, while giving priority to the lived experience of mind, body, presence, and the subtle perception of emotional vulnerability. After moving from Colombia to Spain, and most recently Germany, she has been a consistent presence in music festivals like Worldtronics, SĂłnar and Le Guess Who? as well as a captivating support act to Suuns, Nite Jewel and Julia Holter. Following a long history of underground record releases, she premiered her singular statement, «Commotus» on HEM, in 2012, followed by 2013′s Syzygy.
Lucrecia Dalt’s forthcoming album will be released by Care Of Editions in spring 2015.
In her interview with Andrew Pekler, she unveils a transformation within her process: first letting her environment shape the albums she writes, and now, starting with the environment, and sculpting the conditions where her album is produced. “Dalt turned her studio into a screening room and, instead of absorbing classic works of New German Cinema in her leisure time or as a break between recording sessions, she let the films’ imagery, sounds and atmospheres envelop her and find its way into her music.”
Lucrecia Dalt: Cinematic Ear
http://lucreciadalt.tumblr.com
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CE SCHNEIDER TOPICAL first convened in 2013 to record some of Christina Schneider’s songs on Zach Phillips’s multitrack tape rig. Since then, song authorship and engineer status have destabilized! Today’s CE Schneider Topical is a wholly collaborative enterprise and to the extent it is recognized at all, it should be recognized as such. CE Schneider Topical is also an accompaniment organism symbiotically attached to the Jib Kidder host organism.