Arnold Kasar - Resonanz (2019)

On 29 March 2019 Arnold Kasar releases his new album "Resonanz" at Neue Meister. An album from the observation to the deconstructed melody, to the dark drone and then back to contemplation.

Arnold Kasar has done a lot of commuting over the last few years to record with legendary figures such as Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Friedrich Liechtenstein. On these journeys he captured impressions of the day as sound recordings, his laptop became a sketchbook. In this way, several hours of extremely personal piano improvisations have accumulated, which Arnold Kasar now and then selected an individual take and processes it beyond recognition. Through the act of editing his present album Resonanz is the result.

"I'm a digital nomad," says Arnold Kasar. "I like to sit in the dining car in the morning, when the train is heading south from Berlin, and my eyes can take in a landscape in the morning fog. It doesn't even take five minutes, and I'm in old Europe, in a whole different mindset. With my mobile equipment I can work very well in the dining car, and also in hotels. I have my own sonic vocabulary, which no one else has, and it allows me to be independent. I listened to my album Resonanz entirely during these endless train journeys, editing and honing it gradually."

From now on there is the first foretaste "A Million Miles from Silence". Be sure to listen!

"I'm a digital nomad," says Arnold Kasar. "I like to sit in the dining car in the morning, when the train is heading south from Berlin, and my eyes can take in a landscape in the morning fog. It doesn't even take five minutes, and I'm in old Europe, in a whole different mindset. With my mobile equipment I can work very well in the dining car, and also in hotels. I have my own sonic vocabulary, which no one else has, and it allows me to be independent. I listened to my album Resonanz entirely during these endless train journeys, editing and honing it gradually."

Arnold Kasar has done a lot of commuting over the last few years to record with legendary figures such as Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Friedrich Liechtenstein. On these journeys he captured impressions of the day as sound recordings, his laptop became a sketchbook. In this way, several hours of extremely personal piano improvisations have accumulated, which Arnold Kasar now and then selected an individual take and processes it beyond recognition. Through the act of editing his present album Resonanz is the result.

"I have a toolbox of portable synthesizers that are the source of everything. So at any time, I can go from the piano to the electronics and back to the solo piano, or mix them together." Arnold Kasar describes this process as a medial exchange, from the observation to the deconstructed melody, to the dark drone and then back to contemplation.

Arnold Kasar, piano

TRACKLIST

1. Arnold Kasar - A Million Miles from Silence
2. Arnold Kasar - Weeping Willow
3. Arnold Kasar - Berliner Tinke
4. Arnold Kasar - Schokolade Im Kopf
5. Arnold Kasar - Praterstern
6. Arnold Kasar - Sake
7. Arnold Kasar - Stuecki
8. Arnold Kasar - Globus
9. Arnold Kasar - Flames and Wounds
10. Arnold Kasar - 1000 Dohlen
11. Arnold Kasar - Tempest
12. Arnold Kasar - Xy
13. Arnold Kasar - Spring Song
14. Arnold Kasar - Home Ferro