Shapes (for a Name)

by An Moku

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Trullavanlucid The surroundings can be rediscovered as if through sound glasses. The everyday noises fit in naturally and unique snapshots are created. Brilliant and sparkling. Favorite track: Ebenen der galoppierenden Triaden.

longmo An impressive wealth of musical ideas and dense atmospheres! The album maintains a refined balance between noise and sound, airy yet full of complexity and superbly produced. A pleasure to listen to! Favorite track: Gedanke und Erinnerung.

PadraigC Full of glitches, frequencies and loops, a very 'performative' release. Reminds me of sound art performances, but with more ambient melodies floating through, like turning a radio dial and hearing snippets of stations. Favorite track: Ebenen der sich kreuzenden Mikrojahreszeiten.

yesitsananias The work the artist has put in into this album is immense. You can hear every fragment! It's such a beauty Favorite track: Im Wandel.

stina Album & Essay sind nur zu empfehlen. Wie immer einzigartig und mit nichts vergleichbar.
Ein Kunstwerk in Ton.

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1.	Gestus 01:07	buy track
2.	Ebenen der sich kreuzenden Mikrojahreszeiten 05:30 video	buy track
3.	Atem der Fische 05:41	buy track
4.	Im Wandel 01:22	buy track
5.	Ebene aus Punkt und Linie 01:02	buy track
6.	Gedanke und Erinnerung 02:00	buy track
7.	Zwischen Wort und Bild 04:08	buy track
8.	Zu neuen Ufern 01:49	buy track
9.	Unebenheiten einer Form 00:50	buy track
10.	Alles Fliessende 03:03	buy track
11.	Unruh im Stillleben 00:48	buy track
12.	Illusion der Einzigartigkeit 05:14	buy track
13.	Ebenen der galoppierenden Triaden 09:12	buy track

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The concept behind Shapes (for a Name) began with the end of Dominik Grenzler’s previous album on Puremagnetik, Less (2021). That explored the artists’ thinking about the visual arts, including the paintings of Giorgio Morandi, and captured in sound what Grenzler described as the “architecture in my mind, an environment to shape.” Shapes, then, is both a conceptual and literal further step in his thinking.

Essay by An Moku: Eine Annäherung an die Musik des Bauhaus
anmoku.net/2023/11/02/shapes-for-a-name-eine-annaherung-an-die-musik-des-bauhaus/

“I can't remember what might have triggered my fascination with the Bauhaus,” Grenzler says about the new album.”It could be a piece of furniture, a painting.” He describes his initial recordings as disappointing, but later travels to Weimar and research in his home city of Zurich rekindled questions about the movement across all its multiple manifestations.

Grenzler specifically searched for Bauhaus ideas in music, hoping to “discover a possible formula that would mathematically give me a foundation.” But Bauhaus never produced fruitful musical styles, so instead Grenzler had to use Bauhaus principles to construct his own path.

Those principles, which include no distinction between art and craftsmanship, minimalism, intelligent use of resources, and the famous “form follows function,” can be used, in true Bauhaus fashion, in all creative fields, and through them, Grenzler created Shapes. He hears the tracks as “a narrative” of Bauhaus’ “interdisciplinary approach.” The first track, “Gestus,” has the sound of someone physically working with tools like cables and cords and knobs, channeling voltage into new and useful shapes.

That track introduces the whole, which has a beginning and end with two “Ebenen” (“levels” in the sense of multiple layers) tracks, with Grenzler placing simple, tactile materials on top of each other, loops in one case, shimmering triads in another. Grenzler used sound objects, in a sense, audio materials derived from “water, wood, glass, concrete and steel ... crackling of records, carefully sampled in analogue form.” The album is palpable, not just the cassette tape in hand but the sound itself.

“Bauhaus, for me, is an experimental construction kit” for music, Grenzler concludes. It all goes back to principles, material and ultimately social and political: using good materials with skill to make useful things that can enhance everyone’s lives is a modernist and populist project that, as Grenzler points out, both opposed and survived Nazism. Shapes is a testament to Bauhaus values, how wielding them can create lovely, immersive, evocative music, an avant-garde for everyone.

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released November 2, 2023

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All Tracks by An Moku, Autumn of 2022 in Zürich
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by John Whitlock

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An Moku Zurich, Switzerland

An Moku (Dominik Grenzler) is a sound artist, conceptual producer and former bass guitar player based in Zürich, Switzerland. He has released music on Puremagnetik, Karlrecords, Dio Drone, Slowcraft Records, Bullflat3.8, Audiobulb and his own label Endtitles. ... more

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