Mirko Uhlig, The Rabbit´s Logbook (3" CD Fieldmuzick)

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An attractive disc in a neat little jewel case. A single track stretching over 18´24" "fished on Monday, 30th April 2007 with five sounds for every finger".

Mirko Uhlig is - and I believe many will agree with me - an up-and-coming sound manipulator (and recently co-founder of the extremely interesting Ex Ovo label) who also trades under the name Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf. Anything he releases seems to be worth listening closely to.

Here we are confronted with a soundtrack of the world that exists beneath our shoes and beyond our normal ken, among the high grasses, the gnarled tree roots, the bushes and the undergrowth. The canopy of the night sky stretches above small earthbound incidents, letting in a little light. Some things glisten, others scoot between the dewdrops.

Sudden silences seem to bode no good. Cello swells half way through, a crunchy foundation of static - or is that close-micked rabbit mastication? - lays itself underneath. The cello becomes increasingly brazen and is challenged by incoherent utterings. Again: Another silence and finally, a brief droning coda. All is resolved?

A pretty little masterpiece.

And the label offers extra textures at <http://www.mediafire.com/?b3w2yjilnnj> or <http://www.mediafire.com?clyz1ma1dzl>.

Also fresh off the Fieldmuzick 3-inch imprint is some very advanced, well, field music recorded in Sicily (I´m guessing by the title) during the past two years, masterfully messed around with by Frank Rowenta, entitled "Klänge Siziliens". An excellent urban pastorale of the human dance in six tableaux over nearly twenty minutes.

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