Thomas Brinkmann returns to Editions Mego with A 1000 Keys

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  • The experimental artist's next full-length is a "fatal homage to minimalism."
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  • Thomas Brinkmann has a new album coming out on Editions Mego called A 1000 Keys. This LP is cut from the same cloth as 2015's What You Hear (Is What You Hear), a challenging album that saw Brinkmann attempt to distance himself from "descriptive musical terms that oppress creative output." This time round, Editions Mego say he's created a "fatal homage to minimalism" that presents a "harsh meditation on the expressive qualities of digital sound production." The label adds: "In translating the timbre of a grande piano into binary codes, thus rebuilding its corpus with zeroes and ones, Brinkmann subverts the sensual qualities of this proto-romantic instrument in a sardonic way." The tracklist is made up of three-letter codes for various international airports—"LHR," "JFK" and so on. Listen to album tracks "CGN" and "KIX."
    Tracklist 01. PSA 02. LHR 03. SYD 04. VIE 05. JFK 06. KGD 07. TLV 08. TBS 09. SFO 10. MEX 11. HEL 12. CGN 13. LAS 14. YWG 15. LED 16. NRT 17. MAD 18. KIX Editions Mego will release A 1000 Keys on September 30th, 2016.
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