3 hafler trio albums

My interest in the Hafler Trio's work has been recently rekindled, and I've been buying hafler work like mad lately. Thier recent work is really fantastic, I guess minimal is the word to characterize. Vastly more interesting than most of the "ambient" music that exists out there.

"A pressed on sandwich"
A collaboration with Colin Potter, a great electronic drone master in his own right who has been a part of Nurse With Wound for the past 10+ years - which, perhaps by no coincidence, has been NWW's best work. A Pressed on Sandwich is a fantastic electronic drone piece - several sublte buzzes rising in and out like breath gradually build in intensity, then fade out again over the course of 53 minutes. This has been getting pretty heavy rotation at my pad.









"Exactly as I do"
This one is a collaboration with Jón Þór Birgisson from Sigur Ros, sort of. Jonsi supplied the voice, Andrew McKenzie transformed it into someting else entirely. It feels very organic, and the sound in some places has an especially textured feel. Some Hafler trio releases the sound have a very tactile quality about it, and this is one.

This is two discs long - one disc being more Monochromatic, the being more dynamic. Thouroughly enjoyable if you have a taste for this sort of thing.





"Where are You?"

Another offering from the Hafler Trio's series of albums construced from voice. This one features David Tibet from Current 93 suppling the voice, while Andrew McKenzie twists it up. This release lies somewhere between the dark assembalages for Early Current 93, a la Nature Unveiled, and the minimalism of the Hafler Trio's recent work. The Last 20 minutes of this sounds like ghosts in a windtunnel.









I might add that the packaging on all of these is really elaborate, like little avant garde french poetry books from 1900.