The stylistic spectrum of hamburg-born pianist, organist and synthesist Henning Pertiet ranges from pseudo-classical borrowings to contemporary music, jazz, minimal music, rock and pop, and indian classical music. He says that the compositional [...] is not in the foreground, but "released energy, tones, sound surfaces and experimental sounds with and without (compelling) coherence".
In 2001 he started to deal with free improvisation and came into contact with grooveboxes, synthesizers and other electronic sound generators and modifiers. His main instrument for live improvising on the synthesizer is the buchla 200e, though he also uses eurorack, various moogs and several other synths and sound morphers…
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Often or mostly the titles of my music pieces are not logically explainable or have an immediately comprehensible background.
Rather, they are puns or vague allusions that buzz through my cerebral convolutions (or my emotional center the belly) during the process of creating the music.
In this case (Verhangenes Vergangenes), it is the allusion to the past, which in my life has very likely lasted longer than my future will be; and in this past, many memories are no longer concretely graspable or have clear contours, but are only discernible in a whole shrouded by mists of thought and images with blurred outlines. A mass that is veiled as if by a curtain.
Why the past is almost omnipresent for me in this piece, I can hardly explain. I suspect that it is like most music, namely that certain frequencies trigger certain memories. Human beings store experiences, certain smells, sounds or feelings. These come out again from tim to time, same in music when certain frequencies reach us…
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The album which first introduced me to ambient, although not the first one I owned... an experience that is both wistful and soothing, never too dark yet not suited to being described as joyful.
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This album will grow on you. Listen in headphones or earbuds. It will blow your mind. Steve has so many amazing textures and dimensions on this release. It's hard to pick a favorite track. Probably in his top 5, if there is such a thing. 53Guitarman