Seven Horses For Seven Kings

by BLACK TO COMM

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finnsdog88 blew my mind Favorite track: Asphodel Mansions.

dreynardine If ambient is music as furniture, this is using a sarcophagus as your coffee table Favorite track: The Courtesan Jigokudayū Sees Herself as a Skeleton in the Mirror of Hell.

𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖒 𝖒𝖊𝖆𝖑 Honestly I have never felt so uncomfortable and amazed at the same time solely by music.
This is a very special album, though I'm afraid it will damage me eventually if I keep listening to it. Favorite track: Fly on you.

MilkshakeMan666 The audio recordings of thoughts of a paranoid schizophrenic Favorite track: Ten Tons of Rain in a Plastic Cup.

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	1.	Asphodel Mansions 02:11
	2.	A Miracle No-Mother Child at your Breast 07:33
	3.	Lethe 03:41
	4.	Ten Tons of Rain in a Plastic Cup 06:21
	5.	Licking the Fig Tree 04:45
	6.	Fly on you 04:54
	7.	Double Happiness in Temporal Decoy 03:33
	8.	If Not, Not 03:14
	9.	The Deseret Alphabet 04:26
	10.	Semirechye 01:57
	11.	Rameses II 02:22
	12.	Angel Investor 06:13
	13.	The Courtesan Jigokudayū Sees Herself as a Skeleton in the Mirror of Hell 09:42

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Black To Comm is the solo project of German sound artist Marc Richter. Through his output both as an artist and through his eclectic Dekorder label, Richter has established himself as a singular voice of new music. Operating at the fringes of drone and ambient genres, his music is darkly magical and deeply atmospheric, underpinned by a signature surrealism. A relentless sonic explorer, Richter approaches the studio as his instrument, using sampling, analogue production and digital manipulation to offer an almost infinite choice of tones and textures. Audio fragments are liberated from their original context and sculpted into surprising new shapes, creating work that transcends time or genre. Seven Horses For Seven Kings sees Richter reaching out again into the limitless field of sound, summoning forth his darkest and most visceral work to date.

Seven Horses For Seven Kings was completed during a particularly prolific period for Richter. Working on a broad range of commissions since his last album - from writing for film and theatre works to composing for art installations, apps and sleep music - generated a flurry of new ideas and influences. Site-specific residencies in particular let Richter shift his focus from melody and song architecture to more abstract sound art. Extensive touring would equally come to inform a key shift in Richter’s music, simulating the raw, unpredictable energy of live performances on record. Rather than ironing out mistakes in samples or his own playing, he exploits or even forces such imperfections. While rhythm has been largely absent from previous Black To Comm releases, here the music seems totally bound to it, from the fractured techno breaks of ”Fly on You”, to the pounding war drums of “Rameses II” and pulsing Mellotron sounds of “Angel Investor”. The album’s breath-taking pace drives Richter’s music to new levels of intensity.

Richter’s creative practice is informed as much by careful, attentive listening as it is studio experimentation. Pieces often begin life as a single sound that catches his ear, be it a record from his extensive collection, or something in the natural environment. Samples and instrumentation are sometimes presented authentically, a deliberate reference to an era, place or player, and at other times are twisted beyond recognition. Samples from contemporary artists like Nils Frahm are bent and compounded with fragments of early recorded music and medieval song. Richter blurs the lines between organic instrumentation and digital production to the extent that the two become inseparable. Being able to separate sound from context gives Richter complete command of the emotional impact of his music, imbuing pieces with meaning or stripping it back as he sees fit.

While Richter questions whether instrumental music needs to have deeper meaning beyond its sonic qualities, he accepts that the wider world inevitably bleeds into his art. Reflecting the violence and unreality of modern life, Seven Horses For Seven Kings is unashamedly dark, undeniably angry. But rather than be consumed by such emotions, Richter employs them as ecstatic release. Through his mastery of sound, he achieves transcendence through noise, beauty through intensity.

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released January 25, 2019

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BLACK TO COMM Hamburg, Germany

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