Not to sound too conservative, but I think that when two people come together before (g/G)od, their family, and the state, it’s usually called a marriage. Which makes me wonder: why is it that when two people come together before a record label, a PR team, and the press, it’s called “a collaboration?” Why the double standard? Take, for example, Imagori by Christoph Mueller and Hans-Joachim Roedelius as Mueller_Roedelius. The press materials refer to it as “the first collaborative recording” from these “musical trailblazers,” but I say it’s more like a holy matrimony of sound between two wandering souls on the path of life who have finally found peace and safe harbor in one another’s musical arms.
Speaking of the path of life — or maybe more accurately, the highway of life — both Mueller and Roedelius have put a few miles on the ol’ life car, all the while using their life wrenches to tighten the life screws on their musical abilities. Roedelius has been zooming around with the likes of Cluster and Harmonia since the 70s, and Mueller’s been shuffling genres since the 80s, most recently with the likes of The Gotan Project. Together on Imagori, they explore the ways in which marriage and collaboration really are pretty much the same thing, pairing Mueller’s electronic work with Roedelius’s floating melodic piano compositions, the music sounding like it’s just billowing along, such as “Time Has Come,” which you can hear below. Mazel tov!
Imagori is out September 4 on Grönland Records
• Christoph Mueller: https://www.facebook.com/gotanprojectofficial
• Hans-Joachim Roedelius: http://www.roedelius.com
• Grönland Records: http://groenland.com/en
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