Out now on Recordings for the Summer:
MICHAEL BARTHEL
Two im Teer
CD
TWO IM TEER (two in the tar) contains five cycles of poems spread over fourteen tracks, always implemented differently in terms of sound. Poetry and sound poetry turn into fragile and lonely noises. An excessive collage of voices, piano, and increasingly distorted and destroyed tape recorders. Solo and in duet with the voices of ALICE KEMP, MARA GENSCHEL, ANNA SCHIMKAT, and the violins of HANS ESSEL and INGE SALCHER.
Perhaps the nakedest, embarrassing and indeterminable recordings to date.
In contrast to the previous poems, which used the topic of relationships as a symbol to describe social and political togetherness, the poems and pieces on TWO IM TEER are exclusively focused on the relationship between two people. Nevertheless, this "we" end up in an individual position. What remains is desire and failure. For the first time, four English poems are released here, next to the German ones.
All poems and scores are printed to the six-panel cover. A bacon rind inside.
Concept, Poems, Collages by Michael Barthel. Recorded in 2020.
Released on Recordings for the Summer, Edition of 300
AUDIO SAMPLE ON WEBPAGE : http://recordingsforthesummer.de/RFTS.html
12 € pp. / DM
or
UK at adhuman, Alice Kemp’s bandcamp,
DK at Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik)
Germany at Fragment Factory
China at SubJam.
USA and other countrys coming soon.
Also available, collaboration with RORO PERROT, Solo’s by HERMIT, ERIC BOROS ect.
Michael Barthel - TWO IM TEER - CD
Michael Barthel - TWO IM TEER - CD
Last edited by RFTS on Tue Oct 15, 2024 8:56 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Michael Barthel - TWO IM TEER - CD
Review by Nicolas Malevitis (known of his Labels like absurd, Harsh Dept. Productions, Perverse Series, Noise Below ect.)
http://www.mic.gr/stili/ogdoi-tanini-sa ... box-fanzin
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Michael Barthel is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting forms of German sound poetry of recent years. His style, which relies more on reading poems in an extreme way, sometimes only by voice and sometimes with the use of dictaphones, as well as the fact that it is only in German, may alienate some and not get the attention it deserves from those who they would like to understand the language too, or are they alienated by this almost noise, punk way of reading it. The same feeling can be experienced from his releases, mostly on cassettes that are released in a very limited number of copies. The last few years have more to do with the timbre of his voice and little processing from the dictaphones he records it than with processing it in an e.g. electroacoustic piece. But recently he released on his company Recordings for the summer his new CD entitled 'Two Im Teer' which for me is not only one of the most incredible releases of 2024, but one of his best and not only that. Recorded during the lockdown it combines poetry, sound poetry, experimentation as it has collaborations and sounds from his collaborators and friends such as Anna Schimkat, Alice Kemp, Mara Genschel as well as violin sounds and improvisations from Hans Essel and Inge Salcher. Due to the lockdown and the whole atmosphere of that time based on the idea of two people coming together it sets up one of the most impressive sonic games I've heard in a while. Electro-acoustic compositions, improvisations from the violins that, in the way he has set them in the flow of the CD tracks, drive you crazy as they explode, tying in with the rest of the atmosphere of the release. Even the completely lo-fi overtones of the poems he recites and plays recorded from his dictaphones add to this paranoid revelry. If anyone has just heard of this kind of situation, especially the European experimental and lo-fi scene of the 90s and 00s (good-era Schimpfluch, etc.) without experiencing the buzz that these kinds of releases caused when they arrived at your door and you put them on the stereo to listen to them, well then here's the opportunity!
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Even though the lockdown had no impact or theme on the CD, the connection Nicolas draws here is interesting.
http://www.mic.gr/stili/ogdoi-tanini-sa ... box-fanzin
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Michael Barthel is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting forms of German sound poetry of recent years. His style, which relies more on reading poems in an extreme way, sometimes only by voice and sometimes with the use of dictaphones, as well as the fact that it is only in German, may alienate some and not get the attention it deserves from those who they would like to understand the language too, or are they alienated by this almost noise, punk way of reading it. The same feeling can be experienced from his releases, mostly on cassettes that are released in a very limited number of copies. The last few years have more to do with the timbre of his voice and little processing from the dictaphones he records it than with processing it in an e.g. electroacoustic piece. But recently he released on his company Recordings for the summer his new CD entitled 'Two Im Teer' which for me is not only one of the most incredible releases of 2024, but one of his best and not only that. Recorded during the lockdown it combines poetry, sound poetry, experimentation as it has collaborations and sounds from his collaborators and friends such as Anna Schimkat, Alice Kemp, Mara Genschel as well as violin sounds and improvisations from Hans Essel and Inge Salcher. Due to the lockdown and the whole atmosphere of that time based on the idea of two people coming together it sets up one of the most impressive sonic games I've heard in a while. Electro-acoustic compositions, improvisations from the violins that, in the way he has set them in the flow of the CD tracks, drive you crazy as they explode, tying in with the rest of the atmosphere of the release. Even the completely lo-fi overtones of the poems he recites and plays recorded from his dictaphones add to this paranoid revelry. If anyone has just heard of this kind of situation, especially the European experimental and lo-fi scene of the 90s and 00s (good-era Schimpfluch, etc.) without experiencing the buzz that these kinds of releases caused when they arrived at your door and you put them on the stereo to listen to them, well then here's the opportunity!
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Even though the lockdown had no impact or theme on the CD, the connection Nicolas draws here is interesting.
Re: Michael Barthel - TWO IM TEER - CD
Beijing Artist Yan Jun has made a podcast on Michael Barthel's latest CD TWO IM TEER.
Seven of 14 pieces can be heard from minute 17.26
https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/67 ... f289d7f49d
Seven of 14 pieces can be heard from minute 17.26
https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/67 ... f289d7f49d