Ignaz Schick (turntable, objects, sine waves, live-electronics, feedback). Jörg Maria Zeger (electric guitars, live-electronics, feedback). Burkhard Beins (drums, percussion, objects, zither).
Recorded live at Sophiensäle Berlin during Echtzeitmusiktage, Berlin 2010. All music played as heard, without overdubs. Recorded by Kassian Troyer & Ignaz Schick. Mixed by Jörg Maria Zeger. Mastered by Werner Dafeldecker.
This recording has been waiting in the archives for its release since it was performed and recorded during the month-long Echtzeitmusiktage in Berlin. It sums up the whole decade of Perlonex’ previous music making, but at the same time marks a turning point for the group. Due to external individual obligations and other personal reasons Perlonex took a longer concert break after this event up until 2013. In 2014 the group started rehearsing and playing live again, performing a series of concerts in Berlin and Sweden. The music of Perlonex became more colorful and musique concrete-like, not at least due to Ignaz Schick’s return to vinyl manipulation. The concert you can hear on Perlonoid was one of the last concerts of the band where he uses his object-based rotating surfaces set-up. Perlonoid is rather monochrome, drony, and slow-paced. It is stunning how the music repeatedly gravitates towards its ever-emerging tonal centers. The intensity builds up sheer endlessly and finally explodes at its peaks. An exceptionally powerful sound system, the nice conditions of a large good sounding space and an enthusiastic Berlin festival audience stimulated the trio to build a piece which is both detailed and intense at the same time. Perlonex clearly pushes their long-established maximal-minimalistic material to its formal and physical limits.
Perlonoid makes the 7th release of the band Perlonex and will be followed in 2017 by more archive recordings – including recordings with guest performer Mike Cooper – as well as releases of new material. Also in 2017 the group will intensify its concert activity. – But until then, lean back and enjoy the wonderful soundscapes of Perlonoid!
Perlonex was formed in late 1998 and has eversince performed, recorded and toured extensively through numerous countries. Over the years Perlonex have created a unique blend of different styles – settling somewhere in the no man’s land between electro-acoustic improv, industrial noise, ambient, minimal and often even incorporate elements of psychedelic music. On their extensive tours they have performed in an extreme range of different settings: from academic contemporary music festivals via improv and electronica venues to rough underground and punk/noise clubs. They are frequently invited to prominent festivals all over Europe and have performed concerts in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia & the USA. In Autumn 2004 Perlonex invited two guests, Keith Rowe & Charlemagne Palestine, to join the trio for each one set at the Berlin Podewil. The event was labeled perlonex.tenions and the entire concert was released as a 2CD on the Ukrainian imprint Nexsound. Especially the meeting with Charlemagne Palestine turned into a very special and magic event & became both an amazing musical and personal exchange. Since then every once in a while Perlonex teams up with Palestine and he has become a frequent guest to the group. Another 2CD “It Aint Necessarily So” is documenting a Vienna concertand had been released in 2009 on Zarek. Even though Perlonex normally don’t perform with guests they have made a few more exceptions, besides Charlemagne Palestine & Keith Rowe they also teamed up with R Keenan Lawler and the fabulous lapsteel guitarist Mike Cooper. In plus they collaborated with visual/video artists Ulrike Flaig (video feedback) on several occassions.