Angel s/t CD

Angel s/t CD

Ilpo Väisänen, born 1963 in Kuopio (Finland), worked with Ultra 3, Sinø and Pan sonic (latest releases: Piiri, Liimas, Joulu) met Dirk Dresselhaus, born 1970 in Bielefeld (Germany), whilst his project SchneiderTM (latest releases: Binokular (w/ Kptmichigan), Zoomer, Reconfigures), was supporting Pan sonic on their European tour in 1999.

Since then they have played one show a year and became something you could call ‘soulbrothers‘.

In late 2002 they released their first untitled album on the french label Bip_Hop, which is based on a live-performance from 2000 in Berlin.

The Angel-Sound is mainly about noise, made with the help of ilpo's selfmade synthesizer (typewriter), prepared rhythms and fieldrecordings, dubbed and stretched to their outer limits and Dirk's rather fucked up, feedback driven guitar-style.

Angel is about direct communication, listening to what the other one does and reacting to it, rather than ‘brain‘- music, which is supposed to be intellectual or cool in attitude.

Sometimes this music could seem so grown up, so selfpossessed and assured. But sitting on their laps with its head resting lightly against their chests, it feels like no weight at all.

As though it is still a baby, with all it’s life still stretching out ahead of it, a life still waiting to find it’s shape.

It stirred in it’s sleep as they heard an ice-cream van ringing it’s bell somewhere in the endless streets of berlin or barcelona.

More than any birdsong or blooming bud, this is the sign that the days of cold and dark are finally drawing to a close.

Spring must be coming soon, because the ding-dong man is out there somewhere.