• Conrad Schnitzler – Con Repetitzione

CD, Art Gallery, 1994

Ah Con, beloved Con. Close on forty years of experimentation, noise and art, across many dozens of releases from private pressings and tapes to widely distributed CDs. Helped in the early days of Tangerine Dream and (K)Cluster. Starred for years in Matt Howarth’s comic strips. As bald as Eno but nowhere near as big an unbearable tosser. All hail Con.

We’d say “this one’s a little different from his usual output” but to be honest there ain’t no such thing. The guy’s always out there, always searching for something. But this time it’s multi-tracked keyboards. Part one’s a pounding systems-music workout on multiple pianos that isn’t so much Glass or Riley, but closer to something the Necks would do. Side two is more synthetic, sweet even, a beautiful scurrying piece of rippling keyboard flurries that dances around itself for half an hour without ever outstaying its welcome. Check it.

1. Part One (29:18 )
2. Part Two (30:01)

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