Various Artists

Listened to by Others (A TAL compilation of different voices)

Genre: MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT, ELECTRONIC

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To Rococo Rot’s Stefan Schneider articulates the wanderlust of TAL thru the voices of label regulars and newcomers, from the electronic flutters of Sam Prekop to Asmus Tietchens & Miki Yui’s tone poem, playfully rugged grooves by Tolouse Low Trax, and Oswaldo Lares’ charming Venezuelan folk curios

Since kicking off in 2016 with Ogoya Nengo & The Dodo Women’s Group album, the Düsseldorf label TAL has come to represent the broad tastes of Stefan Schneider - the connective tissue between Kreidler, To Rococo Rot, Hauntologists, and Koshiro Hino (YPY, Kakuhan) - with a string of guess-again releases taking in Japanese no wave (Non Band), industrial and cold wave (Konrad Kraft, Roter Stern Belgrad), and ambient electronic experiments (Sam Prekop).

With ‘Listened to by Others (A TAL compilation of different voices)’ Schneider cooks up a listener’s digest introduction to the label, cuing up the synth-swept guitar meditations of Garth Erasmus beside the piquant ambient keyboard work of Sam Prekop (The Sea & Cake), and hailing local heroes with his erstwhile Kreidler bandmate Tolouse Low Trax’s playful ‘Bonus Beat’, while making room for vintage oddities in Konrad Kraft’s melted industrial circuitry in ‘Slowland’. Schneider himself appears beside Katharina Grosse, Carina Khorkhordina, Tintin Patrone, and Billy Roisz in the grubby madness of ‘Permanent Parts’, and exemplifies his diversity with brooding ambient chamber jazz as So Sner, and also introduces to the fold Belgium’s Razen with the psychedelic vignette ‘Rain’.

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