Where to Find Protest Music?

Sorry to bother you guys again with my own music, but while I was collecting links for my older reviews, I found Japanese label ON-LI having canceled online-activity after all. I released my second album “Some Protest Music for Today’s Youth” there and like to let you know that the MP3-files are available via last.fm still. No ZIP-link though but the whole LP is only five tracks, so… hit ‘em!
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Release-Notes as posted at ON-LI in 2005

Drone-music is interesting if you can’t figure out where the different elements come from. It’s even better if you hear the accidental things that use to happen ‘in-between’ the tracks. 60’s Minimal-Music composers like Terry Riley, Philipp Glass or Steve Reich were experimenting with such effects by extreme repetition and orchestral multilayering. when Brian Eno created his “Music For Airports”, he intended to find a new form of music, neither addicted to Classical nor Pop-music. “Metal Machine Music” by Lou Reed explored the raw power of distorted guitar and feedback, ignoring the formalities of any music heard before. But although Eno himself invented the term Ambient-Music, i don’t want to use it in here.

When Simon and me were recording Milhaven’s “Bars Closing Down“, we were sitting right between these guys that played as loud as possible and our ears kept ringing even hours later. I was surprised finding many sounds missing when I listened to the recordings afterwards. Sometimes it’s the very volume that creates certain overtones, but if you zoom very, very close into the music, you may find the missing bits popping up again. That’s what I did for “Some Protest Music for Today’s Youth“.

Thanks to all the folks that I was able to work with (Wixel, Item, Jasmin and Tupolev), Andrey Kiritchenko for the lovely remix and especially Milhaven for noise and inspiration. The photo for the artwork was shot by Sim Sullen at the tracks behind our house.