ULRICH KRIEGER

Sus Futuros

 

 „ ...for all we’ll drown into the sand
what will remain?
inverted horizons
denied truth and blind eyes
the titans arise
the monuments fall
we cannot halt...“
Celtic Frost, Eternal Summer ( To Mega Therion, 1985, Noise Records)

 

Striving for clarity isn’t a mood commonly associated with improvised music. Its force is stronger than that of its practitioners; they may fall submerged in blinding powers amidst marshy mirages or adrenaline. In such an ocean of certainty, virtue becomes useless. The player has no choice but surrender or keep fighting. If improvised music is the antagonism of composed music, then its goal is to fail. Meanwhile, the mind resists such adversity, looking in the immediate future for a way to structure and develop without losing momentum.
The duo Ulrich Krieger and Marcelo Aguirre, combining influences from Death and Doom Metal, Noise, and Free Improvisation, proceed to select highly differentiated material rather than impressionistic ideas, to slowly build up canvases where velocity and complexity prevail hand to hand with cyclic repetition. Saturated and staccato when needed, perceptive until sound’s treasure, there is a relentless tension that harnesses it all together. Certainly, no matter where the sounds of the duo are going, what prevails is a mass; the displacement of big, heavy, almost uncontrollable sheets of sound with focus in pure intensity. And therefore, while valves are exhausted, articulated and meticulous forms will descend upon mortals like finely tuned interstellar dust.

Ulrich Krieger - electric tenor sax, electronics, growls and abyss
Marcelo Aguirre - drums, screams and low end