28/04/2016
Vital Weekly review of Hanna Hartman's Black Bat 10" release
The single sided record is never a favourite of mine: why waste a side, I'd say. But here's one, a single sided 10" (or as someone put it: the format of doom, not a LP, not a 7") by Swedish composer Hanna Hartman. She lives in Berlin and is mostly active in the field of electroacoustic music and it seems I only reviewed one of her releases, 'H^2' (see Vital Weekly 769), which I quite enjoyed. On this new release, spinning at 45 rpm, so it's even shorter (damn!), she uses the contra bass clarinet sounds of Theo Nabicht, which she transforms at great length using digital means, but all along she also picks up the sound of the mouth and what seems to be screams and distributes over the sound system of the Berghain, Berlin's famous night spot and then picks up the sound again coming from different places, which even in this stereo mix down is something that heard easily. This piece, lasting just under eight minutes is wonderful. It cuts back and forth between all sorts of odd sou
nds,
acoustic ripping apart of sounds and screams in a space. I played this about five times in a row yesterday and I kept hearing new elements in this composition. Too short, no B-side but what a great piece it is. (FdW)
http://www.vitalweekly.net/1029.html
