I Was

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Burkhard Stangl : guitars, contraguitar
Taku Unami : computer with objects
track 1,2,3 recorded at Amann Studios by Christoph Amann on 22nd dec. 2004
track 4 recorded live at Kid Ailack Art Hall by Taku Sugimoto on 8th dec. 2003

edited and mastered by Taku Unami
drawing and handwriting by Billy Roisz

Four versions of “I was” are contained in this album, the fourth and longest one having been recorded live in 2003. Accompanied by Unami on computer with objects (which translates in harsh sequential eruptions and unadulterated, no-frills but in the end “acceptable” grinding noise) Stangl performs unadorned reflections on guitars and contraguitar, making the detuning of his instruments sound like a necessity for our ears, which soon get used to disembodied chords and plucked harmonics whose weird complexion flashes across the speakers like a strange sexless entity gifted with all the knowledge of a zen monk. Sparse elucubrations – not quite at the subliminal level, always remaining audible in the distance – find their very meaning in a pretty calm, absorbing atmosphere, sort of a stained suspension among many interrogatives whose lack of solution is a source of pleasure rather than discontent.