Tonight we’ll be hearing some excellent Berlin-School tracks from a band by the name of Klangwald. In 2012, they released two EPs and one full album on the Kreislauf netlabel:
- Tomato Juice and Ginger Tea (EP)
- Tolerance and Courage (EP)
- Stressless Life (full album)
We’ll be hearing all three in full tonight, with a few tracks from Different Skies and Chromadrift to fill the time out to two hours.
After releasing these works under a Creative Commons license, they released a few more albums on the Stereo Poems and Digital Kunstrassen labels, eventually choosing to start their own label, Klangwald Recordings, continuing to release their own music as part of that label up to 2013; the label is still releasing recordings – one was released in 2021 – but there’s been no new music from them since 2013, which is unfortunate. A few tracks are up on Soundcloud, but, alas, are not CC licensed, so we can’t play them.
We can, however, play these, and they’re really great. I hope you’ll enjoy an upbeat evening of what Klangwald calls Couchmusik.