© The Brandt, Brauer, Frick Ensemble
Die Männer in der Maschine
If you’ve outgrown the club tracks on your iTunes playlist and you find yourself hankering for something new, The Showt team would like to suggest you take a tip from the cool kids over in the Rhineland. Sharing a sensibility of both brash experimentation and deference to tradition, German band The Brandt, Brauer, Frick Ensemble has created a sound which is über-original, performed with über-skill and that’s über-enjoyable.
The Brandt, Brauer, Frick Ensemble straddles the musical genres of Electronica and Contemporary Classical to create a sonic vocabulary all its own. With rhythmic rigor, dizzying recursive loops, compelling composition and virtuoso technical mastery, the group’s sound is simultaneously invigorating and haunting, reanimating the classical past while enriching the musical present. Mr. Machine, BBFE’s new album, features eight hypnotic tracks, any of which could be equally at home in a concert hall or bohemian dance club.
Nietzsche once wrote that “without music, life would be an error,” but with The Brandt, Brauer, Frick Ensemble on your iPod you risk no such mistake.
By Matt Sigl
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