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Escape Veloopity

by Michael Peters

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On the Move 04:40
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Fog Lights 03:54
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Announcement 03:02
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Dawn of Life 05:18
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Electric guitar loop improvisations

Recorded 1996/1997 at home directly to DAT
Mastering: Klaus Stühlen Musikproduktion, Köln;
Greenworld Studio, Geldern
Sounds: Ovation Legend & Fernandes Sustainer Guitars, Boss SE-70, Lexicon Vortex, Paradis Loop Delay;
anonymous Frogs & Birds & Waves
Cover Drawing: Theo Lässig, 1954

As a solo guitarist, I've always made extensive use of tape loops. In the eighties, I used a setup consisting of 2 Revox tape recorders. In 1996, I finally replaced this system with a Paradis Loop Delay which is the predecessor of the more advanced Oberheim Echoplex, and offers many musical possibilities that simply didn't exist before. In the following months, I spent long evenings at home playing guitar duets with myself. I usually started without any plans, and open for the unexpected.

Working with a loop delay is a great way to explore new territory. It is easy to build up ambient clouds or noisy walls of sound, polyrhythmic patterns, or simple or complex themes which can be a basis for soloing. Some of these improvisations later turned into beginnings of compositions.

ESCAPE VELOOPITY contains no compositions in the traditional sense. It is a logbook of explorations into ambient spaces, a collection of compositional sketches, and it contains some unexpected results of experiments. The music is fresh, rough, and unpolished, and there are almost no overdubs except for some environmental sounds here and there.

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released December 31, 1997

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Incursion.org review:

In recent years there has been an explosion of records experimenting with forms of guitar music, ambient or otherwise, and the results have been surprising and incredibly wide-ranging in scope. And yet it's always nice to see a return to the old "Frippertronics" - the use tape loops for electric guitar developed by Robert Fripp. Having studied with Fripp, and having an impressive CV of experience as a solo guitarist, Michael Peters here presents music for solo guitar made with a Paradis Loop Delay system, enabling him to explore the musical possibilities of his instrument through playing improvised "duets" with himself.

The music here is inventive and clever: his use of tape delays has produced some great results. Some pieces have strong rhythmical elements with repetitive loops (see "April for No Reason" for the best example) but there's also a healthy dose of dense and drifting atmospheres howling through space (favourites here are "Infinite Moment" and "Dawn of Life"). No overdubs were used except where some environmental sounds are occasionally woven into the mix. From the listener's perspective this music is more pleasant than challenging, but in such a way that makes us immediately aware of the skill and innovations of the artist here at work. Nicely done.

[Richard di Santo]

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Michael Peters Köln, Germany

Far away from the musical mainstream, always looking for new sound worlds: polyrhythmic minimal music, ambient sound clouds, avantgarde rock, abstract and atonal experiments, algorithmic compositions, field recordings, guitar and livelooping ... WIRE magazine has reviewed some of Michael's albums in their "Outer Limits" section - that says it all, more or ... more

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