EKG
Electricals
EKG : Kyle Bruckmann (oboe, english horn & analogue electronics) & Ernst Karel (trumpet & analogue electronics). Electricals' is the fourth duo release by Kyle Bruckmann (oboe, English horn & analogue electronics) and Ernst Karel (trumpet & analogue electronics). As on previous discs, the music is carefully constructed and extended from extracts of duo improvisations recorded in the studio and at concerts.But as the title suggests, the disc has a more electronic feel than much of their previous …
Group
In the spring of 2005, ekg and Giuseppe Ielasi toured New England, playing both separately and occasionally together. On free days we recorded material together, and continued recording material with the trio record in mind even after parting ways and going to Berlin and Milan. This album consists of compositions by Ernst Karel and Giuseppe Ielasi built with this material
No sign
no sign is organized into seven pieces whose titles are progressively smaller units of time ("Years" down to "Seconds"). However, rather than strictly following an ever-constricting progression, the duo takes a more nuanced approach to the concept of time. It seems that for EKG, there are remarkable structural similarities at each unit of measurement much like there might appear to be subtly mutated reproductions of form in different magnifications of a fractal view. The awareness of these simil…