No sign, by EKG (Ernst Karel & Kyle Bruckmann)

No sign

by EKG (Ernst Karel & Kyle Bruckmann)

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1.	Years 07:15	buy track
2.	Months 07:03	buy track
3.	Weeks 04:48	buy track
4.	Days 07:40	buy track
5.	Hours 04:57	buy track
6.	Minutes 10:20	buy track
7.	Seconds 06:12	buy track

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EKG's second full-length album, released on Sedimental (sedcd041) in 2005 (and still available as a paper-packaged CD: www.sedimental.com/news/index.php?ID=43 )

"EKG is capable of a langorous lyricism while in other cases this tendency is willfully crushed and ground down into a gritty landscape of fine-grained glass and silt. Open and inviting tones draw the listener in at the same time tenser noisy outbursts work to alienate. Tightly controlled grainy textures splutter to life and dissolve into hovering drones. The sequencing can be jarring (as when the largely open “Days” collides with the claustrophobic “Hours”), but the effect is of an irregular pendulum’s swing – a fevered and woozy oscillation through tension and release.” (Steve Rybicki, fakejazz.com)

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released May 5, 2005

Sedimental, 2005

Kyle Bruckmann – oboe, English horn and/or analog electronics
Ernst Karel – trumpet and/or analog electronics

recorded 2002-2004 by Ernst Karel in Chicago and San Francisco
except for part of track 4, recorded live by Tom Duff at ACME Observatory, Oakland
edited, mixed, mastered by Ernst Karel
drawing by Helen Mirra
design by Matthew Fass

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Ernst Karel makes electroacoustic music and experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, and collaborates with filmmakers and artists in making audiovisual work.

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