Quick Ordering for
Repeat Customers
Click Here

Günter Müller, a Swiss percussionist who is increasingly focused on electronics, has worked with a wide range of musicians over the past two decades, including Richard Teitelbaum, Taku Sugimoto, Jim O'Rourke, Dieb 13 and Butch Morris. Many of his projects are documented on his groundbreaking label, For 4 Ears, including the initial poire_z CD.

Swiss duo Voice Crack (Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl) have been playing together since 1972. Since 1983, they've been working exclusively with "cracked everyday-electronics", modifying and/or abusing small household machines in order to produce extreme, unique noises.

France's eRiKm burst onto the scene in the mid-'90s as a virtuoso turntablist. Since then, he has gradually shifted his output into a more abstract vein, sometimes even abandoning the turntables entirely in favor of a minidisc and sampler, as he does here.

Poire_Z +
   Günter Müller
   Norbert Möslang
   Andy Guhl
   eRiKm
   with
   Otomo Yoshide (track 1)
   Sachiko M (track 2)
   Christian Marclay (track 3)

poire_z, the quartet of Günter Müller, Voice Crack and eRiKm, has been performing together since December 1998. In the summer of 2000, they began a series of performances which included a different fifth member each time. These guests have included Keith Rowe, Martin Tétreault, Lê Quan Ninh, Florian Hecker, and Kevin Drumm in addition to the three excerpted sets which make up "+", featuring Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, and Christian Marclay.

This is poire_z's third CD.  The guest musicians' distinctive personalities define each track, infiltrating the core quartet's whirlwind of ideas - influencing, gently nudging, but never impeding or derailing the constant progress.

3 tracks in 58:06 minutes

More Erstwhile           One Final Note Review

Label Profile from One Final Note

:::>>> Tell A Friend About This CD From Drimala

If you like this cd, we think you might also enjoy listening to these other electroacoustics recordings:

We Are Everyone In the Room (Stilluppsteypa and TV Pow)

An Acceptable Color (TOG)

Bits, Bots and Signs (Otomo Yoshihide, Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl)

VHF / Extracts (Graham Halliwell, Simon H. Fell and Simon Vincent)

Schnee (Stangl and Kurzmann)

Tears (Ami Yoshida and Sachiko M)

Knack On (Voice Crack)

The World Turned Upside Down (Rowe, Müller, Sagimoto)

do (Nakamura and Sachiko M)