Maus Now

Exactly 20 years ago on 26. On October 10, 1998, the record company Deck8 published my first EP "everything and more" - I was still a civilian service provider at the time and the music was ordered by the inclined Phonogram Dealer in the subject "single fighter Hip-Hop". Over the years, much has changed: the development from solo artist to Band, seven albums releases, Four record contracts, over 1000 concerts, three worn-out tour buses, theatre productions and crime scene setting. 20 years of Rainer von vielen. It was to be expected that they created pieces that stand between the chairs and break the context of the Album.

This is an important album. Back then this album was far ahead of time. It recorded the awesomeness of our jazz fathers, the inspiring figures who helped to shape our jazz scene today. This recording also stands as a living historical evidence not only for Indonesian jazz journey, but also in global jazz scene. For more than 4 decades it was really difficult to find and very expensive, but now you can have it in remastered in 88.2 kHz.

It can take years to find your voice. In the case of the Winnipeg born, Brooklyn based musician Devon Church, it took the dissolution of a decade long marriage and creative collaboration ( Exitmusic, a nightmare pop project co founded by Church's ex wife) to send him down the road of discovering his own singular, rough hewn yet elegant style. Exitmusic is known for haunting soundscapes and hair raising emotional climaxes. With his remarkably assured Felte debut, We Are Inextricable , Church applies his experience as a producer, multi instrumentalist and songwriter to an equally absorbing solo project - one that plunges his Cohenesque pop poetics into an ocean of drone, psychedelic minimalism, harmonic noise, and distortion tinged, angelic ambience.