Hans Reichel RFI, S/D

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I admit that I posted the Pigface question partly out of boredom, but I really am interested in hearing more Hans Reichel. I just acquired "The Death of the Rare Bird Ymir/Bonobo Beach" 2fer. The first album is pretty good, but I'm not sure I'll want to listen to it repeatedly. "Bonobo Beach" however could become a favorite. "Could Be Nice," which I had at least a segment of on tape, is great. Maybe I can come back later and say something more useful about this music, but in the mean time, if I like "Bonobo Beach," what else might I like by Reichel? He seems pretty obscure, yet I don't think the work itself is particularly inaccessible.

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's put this here.

The liner notes were by. . . Fred Frith. Surprise.

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DeRayMi - there was another Reichel thread not that long ago - I think I blabbed on abt 'Rare Bird Ymir', which personally I MUCH prefer to 'Bonobo Beach', but yeah HR is v. cool and groovy.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I did a search but I only found one thread which even mentioned him.

― DeRayMi, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thre's an FMP thread which mentions him. I think I asked abt Reichel on that occasion.

― Julio Desouza, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Julio, he seems like he'd be up your alley, though maybe too pretty at times.

― DeRayMi, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well...I do have 25+ Derek bailey releases so far so maybe, yes, it is time to get to reichel (though I am not sayinfg he is a derek clone but that he sounds (from what i read) as original as Derek is).

― Julio Desouza, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Seek: any of his work featuring the daxophone, a bowed wooden instrument that he invented which produces sounds somewhat like the voice of Charlie Brown's mom in the old cartoons.

― o. nate, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Julio, I'd say Reichel has a pretty distinctive styles (or set of styles), yes.

― DeRayMi, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Will buy one of his recs at THESE shop once i get back to britain and then will post again here (mid to late july).

― Julio Desouza, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

His stuff on Guitar Solos 2 (with other pieces by Frith, Bailey and Fitzgerald) is wonderfull, full of slyly hummable tunes amidst the two handed rumble.

― philT, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The first track on "Bonobo Beach," "Southern Monologue" reminds me of some of the pieces on a Lou Harrison CD entitled "Music for Guitar and Percussion" (by John Schneider on "well-tempered guitar"). It may just be the tunings used.

"Bonobo Beach" seems much more melodic and texturally varied to me than "The Death of the Rare Bird Ymir."

― DeRayMi, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

Bonobo Beach continues to grow on me, aside from one track. Listening to it tonight, I realize that I really don't understand what he's doing exactly (beyond the sense in which, not being a musician, and not having a knowledge of music theory, I normally don't understand these things). It seems very simple, but the emotional and aesthetic impact are both quite strong. I don't understand the structures he's using, but I think I hear them. It's not as wildly free as what you might expect, and yet I don't know how I'd identify this style of playing. (Intuitive modal?)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

So why do people prefer The Death of the Rare Bird Ymir to Bonobo Beach? You don't want no spaces?

― R_S (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

He has a cool album with Uchihashi Kazuhisa featuring lots of daxophone.
Haven't heard bonobobeach, but this thread has me curious....

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.daxo.de/pages/page8.html

― ogmor, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:37 (seventeen years ago)

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