Amateurs album

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Best known for recordings for chamber ensemble or prepared piano, Haushcka here embraces house music. Lately, there have been a number of acts making variations on house music, loosely speaking, using acoustic instruments and ensemble techniques. Brandt Brauer Frick is probably the best known in dance circles, performing thumping, techno-inspired grooves with lineup of harp, strings, mallets, and other acoustic instruments as well as the requisite laptop and handclap. But there are also Nicolas Jaar, Wareika, dOP, and Kadebostan, among others; Elektro Guzzi, signed to Stefan Goldmann's Macro imprint, splits the difference between minimal techno and math rock with just drums, electric guitar, and effects. Hauschka's Salon des Amateurs is the latest addition to the canon. It might seem like a bold move coming from Hauschka Volker Bertelmann , a musician who's best known for intimate, classically inspired recordings for chamber ensemble or prepared piano-- hushed, pretty, and sometimes bordering on precious. The point hasn't been lost on Hauschka himself, who spells out his status as an interloper in the self-effacing title.

This often excellent Norwegian duo's fifth album features numerous tracks made using instruments neither member knows how to play, an oddly fitting approach for a couple of guys who often explore the intersection between the electronic and the acoustic. If you count the rarities comp Catch that Totem! Its title is apparently derived in part from the fact that many of the tracks were made using instruments neither member knows how to play.

It is in all coherence that this album is also their first collaboration with the American label Hi-Tide Recordings. For the past decade, Les Agamemnonz have performed hundreds of gigs, in concert halls, art centers, apartments, on village squares, beaches, boats, etc. If the craze they generate goes far beyond the borders of their genre niche, it is however the surf music community who give them the greatest honors, by placing their previous album in 3rd position of the Best Surf Records of the Decade or by positioning them as headliner of the Asbury Park Surf Music Festival. As acknowledged figures of this international scene, Les Agamemnonz stand out by their ability to quote their classics The Ventures, The Astronauts, etc.