| 1. Over the course of 20 years, German artist aka Marc Richter has pushed the limits of and merged the aesthetics of art, conceptual installations and music, coming in a wave of innovation alongside his peers Pita, Fennesz, Felicia Atkinson and later Sarah Davachi to name a few. His list of collaborations and commissions is long and impressive. Through it all Richter as Black to Comm has challenged assumptions, explored identity and confronted the concept of authorship itself. Black to Comm’s work investigating the bounds of originality, reinvention and recontextualizing sounds of the past, in tandem with the growth and complications of AI, becomes ever more apropos and potent |
| 2. inundated and comes up with made-up results).” Human behavior reflected in a computer facsimile of human intelligence appealed to the ethos of Black to Comm, whose titles and concepts are often oblique and tongue-in-cheek. Song titles drawn from epic poetry and ancient mythology explore a duality between the serious and ridiculous, mimicking the multi-layered meanings of the music itself; “I love the pathos, the flowery baroque language, the ambiguity ,” Richter elaborates |
| 3. At Zeenath Parallel Heavens pushes Richter’s audio occultism into even more divine, transcendent territory. Across the album’s dazzling expanse, Richter assembles an arresting sonic narrative that blossoms from primeval creation myths to ominous, shadowy expanses and radiant heavenly vistas, exploring the existence of alternative realities. It is as astounding in the scope of its vision as it is immediately enthralling, as inviting as it is subtly unnerving |
| 4. Tracklist: |
| 5. 1.01 - - Then Began the Harp to Fashion |
| 6. 1.02 - - Steep Thy Plumage in His Sweetness |
| 7. 1.03 - - Never Heed the Tongues of Wooers |
| 8. 1.04 - - Time Will Fly on Equal Pinions |
| 9. 1.05 - - La société des rêves |
| 10. 1.06 - - Musik im Schatten |
| 11. 1.07 - - Schleim des Nichtwissens |
| 12. 1.08 - - On the Grass Her Shoes of Deer-Skin |
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