| David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke |
| Risha (June 22nd, 2018) |
David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke — Risha 
⦿⦿⦿ „Ať už Edwards promlouvá k jakémukoli Bohu, jeho Bůh má pochopení.“
⦿⦿⦿ „Risha is a collaboration that fully works. It may come as a shock to 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand aficionados (and who knows to Einstürzende Neubaten ones to, I can’t tell) they would do themselves a favour to take this album in, fully completely. It seems 1 + 1 can equal three sometimes.“ — Wono Magazine
⦿⦿⦿ “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” — Alexander Hacke
Born: on February 24th, 1968 in Englewood, Colorado
Birth name: Alexander von Borsig
Also known as: Alex Hacke
Born: 11 October 1965, West Berlin, West Germany
Location: Denver, Colorado
Format: LP+DLC
Genres: Psychedelic Rock, Americana, Neo~Folk, Industrial, Ambient, Electronic and Arabic Music.
Album release: June 22nd, 2018
Record Label: Glitterhouse Records
Duration: 39:00
Tracks:
01 Triptych 4:38
02 All in the Palm 4:17
03 The Tell 5:01
04 Helios 3:30
05 Kiowa 5 2:25
06 Lily 5:33
07 Parish Chief 2:39
08 Akhal 2:58
09 Teach Us to Pray 3:35
10 Breathtaker 4:24
℗ 2018 Glitterhouse Records
Description:
⦿ Wir freuen uns sehr am 22. Juni auf Glitterhouse Records endlich das erste gemeinsame Album von David Eugene Edwards und Alexander Hacke veröffentlichen zu können! Edwards und Hacke kennen sich bereits seit den Anfangstagen von 16 Horsepower. Zusammen schrieben sie Musik für The Glasshouse, ein Filmprojekt, das von Alexander Hacke’s Frau Danielle de Picciotto initiiert wurde. Gemeinsam arbeiteten die beiden an dem Reunion Album ‘American Twilight’ von Crime & The City Solution. Außerdem war Hacke als Mixing Engineer an dem Wovenhand Album “The Laughing Stalk” beteiligt.
⦿ Nach all diesen Jahren fanden sie jetzt endlich die Zeit um ihr Debütalbum ‘Risha’ aufzunehmen. David Eugene Edwards nahm alle Vocals und Saiteninstrumente auf; Alexander Hacke spielte Keyboards, Bass, Drums und sämtliche elektronischen Sounds ein. Gemeinsam kreieren sie auf ‘Risha’ eine geheimnisvolle und hypnotische Atmosphäre, eine Energie, der man sich nicht entziehen kann. Denver, die ursprüngliche Goldgräbermetropole, auch Mile High City genannt vs. Berlin, wenn man so will. Man kann ‘Risha’ nicht mit hergebrachten Worten beschreiben. Dieser einnehmende Sound ist eine Mischung aus Americana, Neo~Folk, Industrial, Ambient und Arabischen Einflüssen. Musik, die Elektronik mit ethnischen Instrumenten; übersteuerte Gitarren mit orientalischen Rhythmen und Tonleitern kombiniert.
⦿ „To make our own record together has always been a dream and now because of his kindness we have done so. I am so grateful and honored to play with him and so excited for the world to hear what we have created together.“ — David Eugene Edwards
Review
David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke stelt voor Risha
Gepubliceerd op woensdag, 9 mei, 2018 — 09:54
⦿⦿⦿ David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke slaan handen ineen voor het nieuwe album Risha.
⦿⦿⦿ David Eugene Edwards, zanger van 16 Horsepower en Wovenhand en Alexander Hacke, bekend van de legendarische industriële band Einstürzende Neubauten werken samen en brengen op 22 juni hun eerste album Risha uit via Glitterhouse Records.
⦿⦿⦿ Edwards en Hacke kennen elkaar al een lange tijd. Ze maakten kennis tijdens de vroege jaren van 16 Horsepower en werkten samen aan het reünie~album American Twilight van de Australische Indie band Crime & The City Solution. Nu hebben ze de handen in een geslagen en tijd gemaakt om samen een nieuw album op te nemen.
⦿⦿⦿ Alexander Hacke is een van invloedrijkste experimentele artiesten uit de jaren 80 en is voornamelijk bekend van zijn werk met de Duitse industriële band Einstrürzende Neubauten. “David and I have been admirers of each others work for some time. We became close friends during very diverse collaborations and started talking about creating music together, which would combine electronics with ethnical instruments and overdriven guitars with oriental rhythms and scales.” vertelt Hacke.
⦿⦿⦿ David Eugene Edwards heeft in de afgelopen twintig jaar vruchtbaar werk gemaakt met 16 Horsepower en Wovenhand. “Alexander Hacke has been a part of my life for so many years, long before I ever had the pleasure to meet him. I am a fan to say the least. He has been more than an inspiration to me. He is a true talent and I have the utmost respect and admiration for him as a person and a musician and all that he has been a part of.” legt Edwards uit.
⦿⦿⦿ David Eugene Edwards heeft alle zang, gitaar en strijk instrumenten opgenomen. Alexander Hacke speelt op de toetsen, bas gitaar, drums en elektronische instrumenten.
⦿⦿⦿ https://www.frontview-magazine.be/nl/
Rezension:
⦿ Wir freuen uns sehr am 22. Juni auf Glitterhouse Records endlich das erste gemeinsame Album von David Eugene Edwards und Alexander Hacke veröffentlichen zu können!
⦿ Edwards und Hacke kennen sich bereits seit den Anfangstagen von 16 Horsepower. Zusammen schrieben sie Musik für The Glasshouse, ein Filmprojekt, das von Alexander Hacke’s Frau Danielle de Picciotto initiiert wurde. Gemeinsam arbeiteten die beiden an dem Reunion Album ‘American Twilight’ von Crime & The City Solution. Außerdem war Hacke als Mixing Engineer an dem Wovenhand Album “The Laughing Stalk” beteiligt. Nach all diesen Jahren fanden sie jetzt endlich die Zeit um ihr Debütalbum ‘Risha’ aufzunehmen: “David and I have been admirers of each others work for some time. We first got to play together for The Glasshouse, a movie project initiated by my wife Danielle de Picciotto and during the brief resurrection of Crime & the City Solution all three of us were involved with. Shortly after I worked on Wovenhand’s Laughing Stalk album as a mixing engineer. We became close friends during these very diverse collaborations and started talking about creating music together, which would combine electronics with ethnical instruments and overdriven guitars with oriental rhythms and scales” sagt Alexander Hacke.
⦿ David Eugene Edwards (Wovenhand, 16 Horsepower), ist wohl einer der beeindruckendsten Gitarristen/Sänger, Songschreiber und Lyriker unserer Zeit, der in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten unzählige Musiker und Künstler durch sein musikalisches Schaffen beeinflusste und inspirierte. “What I love about David is his approach to words and music, which to me seems to be all about tapping into a divine source of inspiration and to leave all profane concerns and conventions behind in order to create some true and truly great art.”
⦿ Alexander Hacke, einer der bedeutendsten deutschen experimentellen Künstler, ist vor allem als Mitglied der Einstürzenden Neubauten bekannt. “He has been a part of my life for so many years, long before I ever had the pleasure to meet him. I am a fan to say the least. He has been more than an inspiration to me. He is a true talent and I have the utmost respect and admiration for him as a person and a musician and all that he has been a part of. I have listened to religiously and learned so much from. When we finally did meet the image I had of him was only made greater, in person he is so kind and patient and generous, intelligent and such an all around bad ass“ sagt David und bestätigt damit umso mehr, dass zwischen diesen zwei Künstlern eine ganz besondere Verbindung existiert. Eigentlich ist es vollkommen unmöglich diesem Duo zu widerstehen.
⦿ “Our way of working together turned out to be really intuitive. We didn’t have to discuss a lot of conceptual strategies and rather allowed ourselves to be guided by the music, which happened to just materialize in vast chunks. All we had to do was to merrily put the pieces together and discover the tale they were telling.” — Alex Hacke
⦿ David Eugene Edwards nahm alle Vocals und Saiteninstrumente auf; Alexander Hacke spielte Keyboards, Bass, Drums und sämtliche elektronischen Sounds ein. Gemeinsam kreieren sie auf ‘Risha’ eine geheimnisvolle und hypnotische Atmosphäre, eine Energie, der man sich nicht entziehen kann. Denver, die ursprüngliche Goldgräbermetropole, auch Mile High City genannt vs. Berlin, wenn man so will.
⦿ Man kann ‘Risha’ nicht mit normalen Worten beschreiben. Dieser einnehmende Sound ist eine Mischung aus Americana, Neo~Folk, Industrial, Ambient und Arabischen Einflüssen. Musik, die Elektronik mit ethnischen Instrumenten; übersteuerte Gitarren mit orientalischen Rhythmen und Tonleitern kombiniert.
⦿ ‘Risha’ auf Arabisch “Feder” enthält 10 Songs: Angefangen mit dem mystischen ‘Tryptich’, gefolgt von dem furiosen Rhythmus von ‘All in the Palm’. Hacke und Edwards halten das Tempo mit ‘The Tell’ und seinem treibenden Industrial Beat, brechen dann mit Track # 4 und fahren komplett runter, “standing stone, Helios”. ‘Kiowa 5’ beeindruckt durch einen fesselnden Schlagzeugrhythmus und die schamanischen Vocals von David Eugene Edwards. ‘Lily’ ist der Song, der wohl am stärksten von Wovenhand beeinflusst ist. Es folgen das dunkle und hypnotische ‘Parish Chief’ und das dronige ‘khal’ bevor ‘Teach Us To Pray’ und das finale und epische ‘Breathtaker’ das Album abschließen. Jeder Song steht für sich, ist aber zugleich Teil des Gesamtwerkes.
⦿ „To make our own record together has always been a dream and now because of his kindness we have done so. I am so grateful and honored to play with him and so excited for the world to hear what we have created together.“ — David Eugene Edwards
⦿ David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke ‘Risha’ wird am 22. Juni via Glitterhouse Records veröffentlicht, gefolgt von einer ausgedehnten Europatournee.
Review
⦿ We’re more than happy to announce that David Eugene Edwards and Alexander Hacke will release their first collaboration album entitled ‘Risha’ June 22nd via Glitterhouse Records.
⦿ Both know each other for ages. They have a connection since the early days of 16 Horsepower and collaborated on the reunion album ‘American Twilight’ by Australian Indie Rock outfit Crime & The City Solution (2013). Finally they found the time to record this astonishing piece of an album: “David and I have been admirers of each others work for some time. We first got to play together for The Glasshouse, a movie project initiated by my wife Danielle de Picciotto and during the brief resurrection of Crime & the City Solution all three of us were involved with. Shortly after I worked on Wovenhand’s Laughing Stalk album as a mixing engineer. We became close friends during these very diverse collaborations and started talking about creating music together, which would combine electronics with ethnical instruments and overdriven guitars with oriental rhythms and scales” Hacke says.
⦿ Over the last two decades, Edwards’ prolific work in both bands, 16 Hosepower and Wovenhand has influenced and inspired a generation of musicians. His music has always had an unparalleled intensity. His rich, billowing and emotive voice is always the driving force of his music. “What I love about David is his approach to words and music, which to me seems to be all about tapping into a divine source of inspiration and to leave all profane concerns and conventions behind in order to create some true and truly great art.”
⦿ Alexander Hacke, a musician from the start, is primarily known as a longtime member of German industrial music group Einstürzende Neubauten and one of Germany’s most influential experimental artists. “Alexander Hacke has been a part of my life for so many years, long before I ever had the pleasure to meet him. I am a fan to say the least. He has been more than an inspiration to me. He is a true talent and I have the utmost respect and admiration for him as a person and a musician and all that he has been a part of. I have listened to religiously and learned so much from. When we finally did meet the image I had of him was only made greater, in person he is so kind and patient and generous, intelligent and such an all around bad ass“ David says. Almost impossible to resist such an exotic and amazing pairing.
⦿ “Our way of working together turned out to be really intuitive. We didn’t have to discuss a lot of conceptual strategies and rather allowed ourselves to be guided by the music, which happened to just materialize in vast chunks. All we had to do was to merrily put the pieces together and discover the tale they were telling.” — Alex Hacke
⦿ David Eugene Edwards recorded all vocals, guitars and string instruments; Alexander Hacke played keyboards, bass, drums and electronics. Together they created an astonishing and hypnotical soundscape and atmosphere on their first full length LP.
⦿ ‘Risha’ cannot be described in traditional terms. This sound is a sweeping tapestry of Americana, Neo~Folk, Industrial, Ambient, Electronic and Arabic Music. ‘Risha’ — which means ‘Feather’ in Arabic — contains 10 parts: Beginning with the mystic ‘Tryptich’ which is followed by the furious beat of ‘All in the Palm’. Hacke and Edwards keep the pace with ‘The Tell’ and its driving industrial rhythm and break it down completely with track #4, “standing stone, Helios”. ‘Kiowa 5’ is shaped by fascinating drum patterns and the shamanic vocals of David Eugene Edwards. ‘Lily’ is the song that is inspired most by early Wovenhand, followed by the dark and hypnotic ‘Parish Chief’ with its almost Suicide~like vintage drumbeat, the drone excursion ‘Akhal’, before the memorable ‘Teach Us To Pray’ and the final and epic ‘Breathtaker’. Each one a piece of the puzzle; made to be listened in its entirety.
⦿ „To make our own record together has always been a dream and now because of his kindness we have done so. I am so grateful and honored to play with him and so excited for the world to hear what we have created together.“ — David Eugene Edwards
⦿ David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke ‘Risha’ will be released June 22nd via Glitterhouse Records followed by extensive touring.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wovenhandofficial/
Website: https://wovenhandband.com/ / http://milehighcity.com/
Jiří Janík | 15. 09. 2014 | http://www.the-aardvark.cz/david-eugene-edwards-wovenhand-kdyz-ruka-bozi-tiskne-struny
Label: http://label.glitterhouse.com/
Hacke: http://www.hacke.org/
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| David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke |
| Risha (June 22nd, 2018) |
⦿⦿⦿ „Risha is a collaboration that fully works. It may come as a shock to 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand aficionados (and who knows to Einstürzende Neubaten ones to, I can’t tell) they would do themselves a favour to take this album in, fully completely. It seems 1 + 1 can equal three sometimes.“ — Wono Magazine
⦿⦿⦿ “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” — Alexander Hacke
Born: on February 24th, 1968 in Englewood, Colorado
Birth name: Alexander von Borsig
Also known as: Alex Hacke
Born: 11 October 1965, West Berlin, West Germany
Location: Denver, Colorado
Format: LP+DLC
Genres: Psychedelic Rock, Americana, Neo~Folk, Industrial, Ambient, Electronic and Arabic Music.
Album release: June 22nd, 2018
Record Label: Glitterhouse Records
Duration: 39:00
Tracks:
01 Triptych 4:38
02 All in the Palm 4:17
03 The Tell 5:01
04 Helios 3:30
05 Kiowa 5 2:25
06 Lily 5:33
07 Parish Chief 2:39
08 Akhal 2:58
09 Teach Us to Pray 3:35
10 Breathtaker 4:24
℗ 2018 Glitterhouse Records
Description:
⦿ Wir freuen uns sehr am 22. Juni auf Glitterhouse Records endlich das erste gemeinsame Album von David Eugene Edwards und Alexander Hacke veröffentlichen zu können! Edwards und Hacke kennen sich bereits seit den Anfangstagen von 16 Horsepower. Zusammen schrieben sie Musik für The Glasshouse, ein Filmprojekt, das von Alexander Hacke’s Frau Danielle de Picciotto initiiert wurde. Gemeinsam arbeiteten die beiden an dem Reunion Album ‘American Twilight’ von Crime & The City Solution. Außerdem war Hacke als Mixing Engineer an dem Wovenhand Album “The Laughing Stalk” beteiligt.
⦿ Nach all diesen Jahren fanden sie jetzt endlich die Zeit um ihr Debütalbum ‘Risha’ aufzunehmen. David Eugene Edwards nahm alle Vocals und Saiteninstrumente auf; Alexander Hacke spielte Keyboards, Bass, Drums und sämtliche elektronischen Sounds ein. Gemeinsam kreieren sie auf ‘Risha’ eine geheimnisvolle und hypnotische Atmosphäre, eine Energie, der man sich nicht entziehen kann. Denver, die ursprüngliche Goldgräbermetropole, auch Mile High City genannt vs. Berlin, wenn man so will. Man kann ‘Risha’ nicht mit hergebrachten Worten beschreiben. Dieser einnehmende Sound ist eine Mischung aus Americana, Neo~Folk, Industrial, Ambient und Arabischen Einflüssen. Musik, die Elektronik mit ethnischen Instrumenten; übersteuerte Gitarren mit orientalischen Rhythmen und Tonleitern kombiniert.
⦿ „To make our own record together has always been a dream and now because of his kindness we have done so. I am so grateful and honored to play with him and so excited for the world to hear what we have created together.“ — David Eugene Edwards
Review
David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke stelt voor Risha
Gepubliceerd op woensdag, 9 mei, 2018 — 09:54
⦿⦿⦿ David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke slaan handen ineen voor het nieuwe album Risha.
⦿⦿⦿ David Eugene Edwards, zanger van 16 Horsepower en Wovenhand en Alexander Hacke, bekend van de legendarische industriële band Einstürzende Neubauten werken samen en brengen op 22 juni hun eerste album Risha uit via Glitterhouse Records.
⦿⦿⦿ Edwards en Hacke kennen elkaar al een lange tijd. Ze maakten kennis tijdens de vroege jaren van 16 Horsepower en werkten samen aan het reünie~album American Twilight van de Australische Indie band Crime & The City Solution. Nu hebben ze de handen in een geslagen en tijd gemaakt om samen een nieuw album op te nemen.
⦿⦿⦿ Alexander Hacke is een van invloedrijkste experimentele artiesten uit de jaren 80 en is voornamelijk bekend van zijn werk met de Duitse industriële band Einstrürzende Neubauten. “David and I have been admirers of each others work for some time. We became close friends during very diverse collaborations and started talking about creating music together, which would combine electronics with ethnical instruments and overdriven guitars with oriental rhythms and scales.” vertelt Hacke.
⦿⦿⦿ David Eugene Edwards heeft in de afgelopen twintig jaar vruchtbaar werk gemaakt met 16 Horsepower en Wovenhand. “Alexander Hacke has been a part of my life for so many years, long before I ever had the pleasure to meet him. I am a fan to say the least. He has been more than an inspiration to me. He is a true talent and I have the utmost respect and admiration for him as a person and a musician and all that he has been a part of.” legt Edwards uit.
⦿⦿⦿ David Eugene Edwards heeft alle zang, gitaar en strijk instrumenten opgenomen. Alexander Hacke speelt op de toetsen, bas gitaar, drums en elektronische instrumenten.
⦿⦿⦿ https://www.frontview-magazine.be/nl/
Rezension:
⦿ Wir freuen uns sehr am 22. Juni auf Glitterhouse Records endlich das erste gemeinsame Album von David Eugene Edwards und Alexander Hacke veröffentlichen zu können!
⦿ Edwards und Hacke kennen sich bereits seit den Anfangstagen von 16 Horsepower. Zusammen schrieben sie Musik für The Glasshouse, ein Filmprojekt, das von Alexander Hacke’s Frau Danielle de Picciotto initiiert wurde. Gemeinsam arbeiteten die beiden an dem Reunion Album ‘American Twilight’ von Crime & The City Solution. Außerdem war Hacke als Mixing Engineer an dem Wovenhand Album “The Laughing Stalk” beteiligt. Nach all diesen Jahren fanden sie jetzt endlich die Zeit um ihr Debütalbum ‘Risha’ aufzunehmen: “David and I have been admirers of each others work for some time. We first got to play together for The Glasshouse, a movie project initiated by my wife Danielle de Picciotto and during the brief resurrection of Crime & the City Solution all three of us were involved with. Shortly after I worked on Wovenhand’s Laughing Stalk album as a mixing engineer. We became close friends during these very diverse collaborations and started talking about creating music together, which would combine electronics with ethnical instruments and overdriven guitars with oriental rhythms and scales” sagt Alexander Hacke.
⦿ David Eugene Edwards (Wovenhand, 16 Horsepower), ist wohl einer der beeindruckendsten Gitarristen/Sänger, Songschreiber und Lyriker unserer Zeit, der in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten unzählige Musiker und Künstler durch sein musikalisches Schaffen beeinflusste und inspirierte. “What I love about David is his approach to words and music, which to me seems to be all about tapping into a divine source of inspiration and to leave all profane concerns and conventions behind in order to create some true and truly great art.”
⦿ Alexander Hacke, einer der bedeutendsten deutschen experimentellen Künstler, ist vor allem als Mitglied der Einstürzenden Neubauten bekannt. “He has been a part of my life for so many years, long before I ever had the pleasure to meet him. I am a fan to say the least. He has been more than an inspiration to me. He is a true talent and I have the utmost respect and admiration for him as a person and a musician and all that he has been a part of. I have listened to religiously and learned so much from. When we finally did meet the image I had of him was only made greater, in person he is so kind and patient and generous, intelligent and such an all around bad ass“ sagt David und bestätigt damit umso mehr, dass zwischen diesen zwei Künstlern eine ganz besondere Verbindung existiert. Eigentlich ist es vollkommen unmöglich diesem Duo zu widerstehen.
⦿ “Our way of working together turned out to be really intuitive. We didn’t have to discuss a lot of conceptual strategies and rather allowed ourselves to be guided by the music, which happened to just materialize in vast chunks. All we had to do was to merrily put the pieces together and discover the tale they were telling.” — Alex Hacke
⦿ David Eugene Edwards nahm alle Vocals und Saiteninstrumente auf; Alexander Hacke spielte Keyboards, Bass, Drums und sämtliche elektronischen Sounds ein. Gemeinsam kreieren sie auf ‘Risha’ eine geheimnisvolle und hypnotische Atmosphäre, eine Energie, der man sich nicht entziehen kann. Denver, die ursprüngliche Goldgräbermetropole, auch Mile High City genannt vs. Berlin, wenn man so will.
⦿ Man kann ‘Risha’ nicht mit normalen Worten beschreiben. Dieser einnehmende Sound ist eine Mischung aus Americana, Neo~Folk, Industrial, Ambient und Arabischen Einflüssen. Musik, die Elektronik mit ethnischen Instrumenten; übersteuerte Gitarren mit orientalischen Rhythmen und Tonleitern kombiniert.
⦿ ‘Risha’ auf Arabisch “Feder” enthält 10 Songs: Angefangen mit dem mystischen ‘Tryptich’, gefolgt von dem furiosen Rhythmus von ‘All in the Palm’. Hacke und Edwards halten das Tempo mit ‘The Tell’ und seinem treibenden Industrial Beat, brechen dann mit Track # 4 und fahren komplett runter, “standing stone, Helios”. ‘Kiowa 5’ beeindruckt durch einen fesselnden Schlagzeugrhythmus und die schamanischen Vocals von David Eugene Edwards. ‘Lily’ ist der Song, der wohl am stärksten von Wovenhand beeinflusst ist. Es folgen das dunkle und hypnotische ‘Parish Chief’ und das dronige ‘khal’ bevor ‘Teach Us To Pray’ und das finale und epische ‘Breathtaker’ das Album abschließen. Jeder Song steht für sich, ist aber zugleich Teil des Gesamtwerkes.
⦿ „To make our own record together has always been a dream and now because of his kindness we have done so. I am so grateful and honored to play with him and so excited for the world to hear what we have created together.“ — David Eugene Edwards
⦿ David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke ‘Risha’ wird am 22. Juni via Glitterhouse Records veröffentlicht, gefolgt von einer ausgedehnten Europatournee.
Review
⦿ We’re more than happy to announce that David Eugene Edwards and Alexander Hacke will release their first collaboration album entitled ‘Risha’ June 22nd via Glitterhouse Records.
⦿ Both know each other for ages. They have a connection since the early days of 16 Horsepower and collaborated on the reunion album ‘American Twilight’ by Australian Indie Rock outfit Crime & The City Solution (2013). Finally they found the time to record this astonishing piece of an album: “David and I have been admirers of each others work for some time. We first got to play together for The Glasshouse, a movie project initiated by my wife Danielle de Picciotto and during the brief resurrection of Crime & the City Solution all three of us were involved with. Shortly after I worked on Wovenhand’s Laughing Stalk album as a mixing engineer. We became close friends during these very diverse collaborations and started talking about creating music together, which would combine electronics with ethnical instruments and overdriven guitars with oriental rhythms and scales” Hacke says.
⦿ Over the last two decades, Edwards’ prolific work in both bands, 16 Hosepower and Wovenhand has influenced and inspired a generation of musicians. His music has always had an unparalleled intensity. His rich, billowing and emotive voice is always the driving force of his music. “What I love about David is his approach to words and music, which to me seems to be all about tapping into a divine source of inspiration and to leave all profane concerns and conventions behind in order to create some true and truly great art.”
⦿ Alexander Hacke, a musician from the start, is primarily known as a longtime member of German industrial music group Einstürzende Neubauten and one of Germany’s most influential experimental artists. “Alexander Hacke has been a part of my life for so many years, long before I ever had the pleasure to meet him. I am a fan to say the least. He has been more than an inspiration to me. He is a true talent and I have the utmost respect and admiration for him as a person and a musician and all that he has been a part of. I have listened to religiously and learned so much from. When we finally did meet the image I had of him was only made greater, in person he is so kind and patient and generous, intelligent and such an all around bad ass“ David says. Almost impossible to resist such an exotic and amazing pairing.
⦿ “Our way of working together turned out to be really intuitive. We didn’t have to discuss a lot of conceptual strategies and rather allowed ourselves to be guided by the music, which happened to just materialize in vast chunks. All we had to do was to merrily put the pieces together and discover the tale they were telling.” — Alex Hacke
⦿ David Eugene Edwards recorded all vocals, guitars and string instruments; Alexander Hacke played keyboards, bass, drums and electronics. Together they created an astonishing and hypnotical soundscape and atmosphere on their first full length LP.
⦿ ‘Risha’ cannot be described in traditional terms. This sound is a sweeping tapestry of Americana, Neo~Folk, Industrial, Ambient, Electronic and Arabic Music. ‘Risha’ — which means ‘Feather’ in Arabic — contains 10 parts: Beginning with the mystic ‘Tryptich’ which is followed by the furious beat of ‘All in the Palm’. Hacke and Edwards keep the pace with ‘The Tell’ and its driving industrial rhythm and break it down completely with track #4, “standing stone, Helios”. ‘Kiowa 5’ is shaped by fascinating drum patterns and the shamanic vocals of David Eugene Edwards. ‘Lily’ is the song that is inspired most by early Wovenhand, followed by the dark and hypnotic ‘Parish Chief’ with its almost Suicide~like vintage drumbeat, the drone excursion ‘Akhal’, before the memorable ‘Teach Us To Pray’ and the final and epic ‘Breathtaker’. Each one a piece of the puzzle; made to be listened in its entirety.
⦿ „To make our own record together has always been a dream and now because of his kindness we have done so. I am so grateful and honored to play with him and so excited for the world to hear what we have created together.“ — David Eugene Edwards
⦿ David Eugene Edwards & Alexander Hacke ‘Risha’ will be released June 22nd via Glitterhouse Records followed by extensive touring.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wovenhandofficial/
Website: https://wovenhandband.com/ / http://milehighcity.com/
Jiří Janík | 15. 09. 2014 | http://www.the-aardvark.cz/david-eugene-edwards-wovenhand-kdyz-ruka-bozi-tiskne-struny
Label: http://label.glitterhouse.com/
Hacke: http://www.hacke.org/
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