PURE SOUND vs VOLLMER came about when Carsten Vollmer suggested we sample each other's work and write new material from that. I knew how direct and uncompromising Carsten's work was and thought the collaboration would highlight huge contrasts in the way artists approach each other's work. I was curious to see what he might do with Pure Sound songs too - you couldn't get much more different!
Working as Pure Sound I gather found sounds to build a soundtrack for lyrics, bass lines and piano melodies. When Carsten sent me his 7ö singles this gave me a number of ideas of samples I might take. I work in Pro Tools so I selected some cuts but then had to go to America for work.
In America I gathered more sounds and stored them alongside the Vollmer samples. When I looked at the project again on my return, suddenly things started to happen. The Vollmer samples started to work with a mic check by a blues singer in Vicksburg and the sound of a swamp running alongside the Mississippi. Once I had a start, the rest was easy.
This collaboration features the Pure Sound AMERICAN TRILOGY, three tracks using found sounds gathered while main songwriter VINCE HUNT was in the United States in 2008 and made with samples taken from Carsten VOLLMER's vinyl catalogue. Once finished the songs were sent to Carsten VOLLMER for his interpretation with his unique approach to music. THE AMERICAN TRILOGY
These are the sounds of New Orleans, Chicago, Vicksburg, Minneapolis and St Louis mixed up and fed into songs penned on the road by Hunt. They feature the sounds of boats on the Mississippi, the calliope steam whistle from paddle steamers in New Orleans; freight trains going through Hannibal, Missouri; the Chicago subway and the gravel under car wheels from the Stovall Plantation, where blues guitarist Muddy Waters grew up.
These three songs are observations on life, love and relationships; on what we do with our time on this earth.
This is a collaboration between Manchester based Pure Sound and noise activist Carsten Vollmer from Essen, Germany. He made Cut+Go=RMX of Pure Sound's stories. 50 black mini CDr with photocover, limited to 50.
Tracklist: 1 Pure Sound - Report From The Edge Of The World 2 Carsten Vollmer - Dance On The Edge Of The World - Cut+Go=RMX - AN 16/T 7.0 3 Pure Sound - Dempster Highway 4 Carsten Vollmer - Highway Killer - Cut+Go=RMX - AN 16/T 2.1 5 Pure Sound - Recordings Of Her Voice 6 Carsten Vollmer - Her Voice In My Head - Cut+Go=RMX - AN 16/T 2.2
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