Thieke / Marino

Native Languages of Nowhere

Emergent Idioms | 2022 | Cassette

Luigi Marino | zarb, bowed custom cymbals, electronics

Michael Thieke | clarinet

1. Filament | 22:08
2. Dusk | 17:41
3. Breaking Song | 03:50

Cassette made from recycled plastic. Case 3d printed with bioplastic (PLA made from corn starch).

 

Emergent Idioms (UK) | 2022

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Info: Thieke / Marino

Listen on Bandcamp: Native Languages of Nowhere

Website: Luigi Marino 

reviews:

Thieke and Marino have established a subtle dialog focused on the way the ethereal breaths and sounds of the acoustic clarinet resonate within the metallic surfaces of the bowed cymbals, raw electronics, or the echoing zarb, and together offer an enigmatic, fragile collective entity. The dynamics of this duo are patient, precise, focused on extended segments of statis, investigate methodically the timbres of the acoustic and the simple electronic sounds, and offer a weird and hallucinogenic, listening experience. But this duo colors its fascinating dynamics with rawer, noisier sounds, depicting abstract and quite cinematic, suspended landscapes, or morphing organically into simple melodies and odd, sparse pulses. The second extended piece “Dusk” cements even further the futurist and cinematic, surprisingly lyrical sceneries of this duo’s imaginary territories while the last, short piece “Breaking Song” charges its electro-acoustic interplay into deep, dark space.
(Eyal Hareuveni, The Free Jazz Collective)

Das Nirgendwo hebt zu ’sprechen‘ an mit einem summenden, sirrenden Dauerton, den ich solange ‚dröhnminimalistisch‘ nenne, bis mir jemand was Besseres vorschlägt. Nachdem in der Kulisse ‚hinter‘ dem schimmernden Dröhnen Ruhe eingekehrt ist, stehen und schwingen die Klangfilamente ungestört im Raum, als stupsender Lufthauch, rossiges Schnauben, schattiges Tuten, Zischen und Fauchen, als metallisches Pfeifen, Sinusschwebklang, tremolierendes Klopfen. ‚Dusk‘ variiert das b-seits in helldunkel-blauem Unisono, in sublim mundgeblasenen, zirpig bebenden, wieder stehenden, kurz pulsenden, statisch brummenden Parallelen. ‚Breaking Song‘ vereint zuletzt die zart zwitschernde, tutende, bebende Klarinette mit elektroorgelig mysteriösem Sound und bricht so, wie einem die Stimme bricht.
(Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy)