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4bad3rds (Christopher Dell & Luka Höfler)
“Radical Landscape”
chromocarboard and booklet card
- special limited edition (200) CD
jewel case transparent tray and 8 page booklet
“self-assertion in an inhospitable environment”
The important German literary critic Gregor Dotzauer wrote about the album in the Tagesspiegel as part of the late summer recommendations 2024:
“… the almost 32 minutes, entitled “Point de vie arbre”, which unfold an impetuous electronic life in the middle of the album’s “Radical Landscape”, actually have something of self-assertion in an inhospitable environment. The consistently distorted and modulated sounds, with which Christopher Dell’s often barely recognizable vibraphone and Luka Höfler’s live electronics penetrate and intertwine, form a tense event space in their throbbing and pulsating: The tree is the landscape…. Through the raw and unsmoothed of that time, it gains a surprising presence.”
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“With Radical Landscape, the exclusive artist’s label edition niehler werft is presenting the first release of 4bad3rds, the unique collaboration between the experimental composer-performer-producer duo Christopher Dell and Luka Höfler (aka Elfish Echo aka Lu Katavist).
What are the differences and similarities between instrumental and electronic sound, between oscillations generated by distorted vibraphone structures and electronically controlled modulations? What sonicscape emerges when both sound sources superimpose, interact, translate, and rewire? On Radical Landscape, the composer-performers Christopher Dell and Luka Höfler work with various equipment to explore this intriguing concept.
Line Up:
Christopher Dell – vibraphone, effects
Luka Höfler – sampler, electronics
Tracklist vinyl
A1 point de vie arbre I 16:07
B1 point de vie arbre II 15:47
total time: 31:56
tracklist CD
01 point de vie arbre I 16:07
02 point de vie arbre II 15:47
total time: 31:56
Composition, production and concept by
Dell & Höfler
Mastered 2024 by Stefan Eichinger at Mixmastering
www.mixmastering.com
Design by Höfler & Dell
Liner Notes Christopher Dell
© & ℗ 2024 edition niehler werft
www.niehler-werft.de
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retroactive series
Vic Firth Mallets
GEMA
LC 12103
Produced by Christopher Dell and Luka Höfler