Ill Fares the Land, by Koenraad Ecker

Ill Fares the Land

by Koenraad Ecker

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mastered by Rashad Becker
artwork by Marta Djourina

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	1.	Oran (Parts 1 & 2) 14:09
	2.	Kurtz 07:33
	3.	One-Eye 07:09
	4.	Decline 02:09
	5.	Stuffed Men 09:22

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NOTE : From january 1st 2016, 50% of all revenue of the digital sales of my music on Bandcamp will go to "Diogenes vzw", a small non-profit organisation based in Brussels, Belgium. Diogenes' volunteers support, help and inform homeless persons, through direct contact on the streets of Brussels. They help with their acute needs (housing, food, medical assistance and human contact), work for their reintegration into society (informing and helping with bureaucracy) and actively try to create greater visibility of homeless people's plight in the press and (local) political arena. More info : diogenes.wikeo.be

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On the horizon, darkness looms. Small ideas birth larger than life sonics on Koenraad Ecker's "Ill Fares The Land." Inside this non-linear narrative, Ecker blossoms like a parasite crowding out its host. Deep chasms open within these musical walls and keep the delicate balance that exists within this aural web in check and free.

Fourteen minute opener "Oran" is a sprawling and resolute. Ecker shows his compositional chops through an impressive mix of blacked-out electronics and horror-filled cello passages. Inside long, drawn out passages, he avoids repetition and beats down a tonal path where the structure of each piece is dynamic yet cohesive. The combination is intoxicating, indicating a world decaying from the inside out. Sparse beats end up in a death spiral, competing with the moaning voice of Ecker's cello scrawl and bleak electronics that fill all the empty cracks. Rich textures overload the senses until there's nowhere else to hide except the dense electronics of "Kurtz."

Like the slow burn of a lit fuse, "One-Eye" crawls through layers of decay before exploding midway through into incalculable chaos. Square waves blot out difficult melodies saturated in sepia tones only to suddenly disappear like a corroded hallucination. White noise builds from short crackles into cavernous rhythms that become a funeral march for the broken and alone. Machines come to life only to be shuddered when the electricity is cut and all that's left are growling, harmonic scarpes. "Ill Fares The Land" will certainly leave a mark.

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released February 17, 2014

All music by Koenraad Ecker
Mastered at D&M by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Marta Djourina
Released on Digitalis Recordings

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