Die ANGEL

Info

Ilpo Väisänen (of Pan sonic) and Dirk Dresselhaus (of Schneider TM) have been playing freeform noise with a tendancy to drone things out since 1999.

Geschichte

NEW ALBUM : Entropien 1
(out Oct. 6th 2017 on Cosmo Rhythmatic / https://boomkat.com/products/entropien-i)

In physics, entropy is a quantity generally described as the measure
of disorder within any kind of thermodynamic system, including the universe. It counts the microscopic states that system can assume when open, interacting with others or getting altered by external conditions.
Thus, entropy makes for the perfect description of the way Ilpo Väisänen (Pan sonic, I- LP-O IN DUB) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM, A S S, Locust Fudge) have approached music creation since the establishment of their collaborative project Angel (now die Angel) in 1999. Allowing energy to flow freely through machines, bodies and different acoustic conditions, they’ve generated a powerful archive of mutating sonic states. A kind of creative attitude that favors exploring the physical complexity of unstructured electronics.
That’s where the title for their first release on Cosmo Rhythmatic comes from, “Entropien” being the Finnish word and the German plural for entropy. Getting back to the stripped down set of their beginnings (modular synths, effects and processed guitar), they’ve come out with one of their most, intense, rawest and noisiest albums to date, showcasing an impressing scale of dynamics while attacking the senses with belligerent tones. Oren Ambarchi also shows up on two tracks, intertwining his drums, field recordings and guitar within the duo’s discordant layers.

ANGEL discography:

Angel Nr.1 – Nr.10, CD, Bip Hop 2002
Angel and Hildur Gudnadottir, In Transmediale, CD, Oral 2006
Angel, Kalmukia, CD/Notebook, Editions Mego 2008
Angel, Hedonism, CD, Editions Mego 2008
Strings Of Consciousness & Angel, LP/CD, Conspiracy Rec. / Important Rec. 2009
Angel, 26000, CD/LP, Editions Mego 2011
Angel, Terra Null., CD Editions Mego 2014

die Angel

Angel (now re-named as die Angel) is Ilpo Väisänen (Pan sonic, I-LP-O IN DUB) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM, A S S, Locust Fudge) who play time-transcending freeform sound, weightlessness and gravity of electromagnetic signals together since 1999. Sometimes they collaborate with other freeform musicians like BJ Nilsen, Hildur Gudnadottir, Lucio Capece or Oren Ambarchi as well as with the Japanese dancer Tomoko Nakasato.