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ATXTA! LIVE! (Live At Music Post​-​Music, Berlin 2016)

by Malo Moray & His Inflatable Knee

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MUSIC_ (Live at Loophole, Berlin) 02:36
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ATX (Live at Loophole, Berlin) 04:48
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TXT (Live at Loophole, Berlin) 04:09
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XTA (Live at Loophole, Berlin) 05:03
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_POST-MUSIC (Live at Loophole, Berlin) 05:22
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The setup for performing ATXTA live was quite unique. I was playing my bass ukulele through two loopers and the ME50 multieffects processor from Boss as I had already done on the ATXTA EP, which I had released only a week before that show (you can check it out here as well) - but I extended the setup quite a bit to create even more chaos: I had an empty vinyl record prepared for the show: I had i running on my grammophone for quite a while. The heavy metal needle of the gramophone carving deep grooves into the virgin vinyl -- I played that record through a turntable as a sound source for some quite intense noisemaking. Fooling around with my gramophone I found out, that when playin vinyls on it, you could actually hear something, but the moment you heard the sounds from the groove, they were being destroyed by the havy steel needle of the gramophone - it actually caused quite a bit of tiniest black plastic dust that I was carrying around everywhere for quite a while. Having found that out, I was playing a 2000s tech vinyl from the flea market through the gramophone to be then be used as the starting point of the next ATXTA live performance. But what shall I say? The gramophone broke after the performance and up until today I never gotten to play an ATXTA performance since then... but who knows?

Somethimes, I look onto the things, I am creating and the make me smile. Especially with some distance... And this is how I felt, when re-discovering my the recordings that I'll be releasing tomorrow as ATXTA! LIVE! -- I totally forgot, they were there for like 4 years. As I might have mentioned ocne or twice, most of my solo music emerges from me recording music for myself's personal enjoyment. So 3 weeks ago I was checking out one of my hardrives and found this recording. I was like "Hmm... Live in Berlin? 2016? What's that?" ... I imported the thing into Cubase (Yes, I'm still using that!) and played it. And ZOOM! I was back in 2016 playing this weird-ass chaotic set to a small, but delicate crowd at super sweaty Loophole in Berlin. These recordings capture my very first own full solo set ever! I was feeling very strange after this show, I can remember that clearly. I was way too nervous abou everything... Totally frightened, that no one would understand what I was doing. By part because I enjoy the idea of GESAMTKUSTWERK and by part because of the horror that the music would suck so much, that no one would understand it, I even built a projector to go along my set -- If the music is too annoying, people would at least have something pretty to look at, was my thought.
So I set up this pretty complicated and fragile projector, bass ukulele with live electronics, gramophone, turntable (I even brought like 20 yellow post boxes as stands!) and played my set - pretty straight forward. I produced a lot of noise, people applauded, sold an ATXTA tape to someone, packed up and went back home. The only feeling I can recall from then is feeling totally sick. I was playing BLACK MONK TIME by MONKS on the car and when I got up the next morning, I realized I had caught a pretty bad flu and didn't really leave bed for the next week or so. Propably that's why I forgot about this recording.
Getting back to it now feels really good. Now that I've managed to get rid of quite some of the uncertanties that made me feel so uncomfortable about my solo music back then, I am glad to say that ATXTX! LIVE! feels like a pretty bold, raw interpretation of what I understand of the early punk rock music as in The Stooges or The Velvet Underground -- I tried mixing the recording in a similar way too -- all in the red, all the time, way too loud. This music is made to be listened to loudly.

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released July 31, 2020

Bass Ukulele, Live Electronics, Prepared Vinyls, Turntable, Grammophone by Martin 'Malo' Riebel
Recorded, Mixed, Produced by Martin 'Malo' Riebel

Recorded Live At MUSIC POST-MUSIC on March 15th, 2016 at Loophole, Berlin.

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Malo Moray & His Inflatable Knee Leipzig, Germany

Malo Moray & His Inflatable Knee is the experimental ambient collective founded in 2020 by Leipzig based upright bassist/multiinstrumentalist/concept artist Martin ‘Malo’ Riebel, leading a playfully spacious search for immersion through free improvisation inspired by the cosmos, nature and obsolete sounds; mostly compared to the avant-garde works of Brian Eno, Sunn O))), Swans or Faust. ... more

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