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Eglise de Betzdorf

by Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder

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All tracks composed, arranged and performed by
Bas Broekhuis, Detlef Keller and Mario Schönwälder.

Recorded live during a concert at Eglise de Betzdorf/Luxemburg on 25th June 2010.
Audio mastering by Gerd Wienekamp.
Cover Design by Mario Schönwälder and Stephan Knull.

Deutsche Rezensionen:
www.musikzirkus-magazin.de/dateien/Pages/CD_Kritiken/elektronik/broekhuis_keller_schoenwaelder_eglise_de_betzdorf.htm
www.musikreviews.de/reviews/2013/Broekhuis-Keller--Schoenwaelder/Eglise-de-Betzdorf/

Videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-415lQXFw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv0Fx_jkeWI

Reviews:
This release from 2013 features 38 minutes of engaging electronic music recorded live in Luxemburg on June 25, 2010.
Slow-burn electronics craft two long-form pieces.
The first track begins with airy texturals punctuated by synthesized flamenco guitar played slow. Shakers accompany this intro, and they gradually mutate into a marching rhythm on electronic drums. A delicate keyboard riff dances into prominence, coaxing the percussion and auxiliary electronics to fuse into a mounting melody that gains puissance with each passing moment. Additional texturals gurgle from the background to blend with things, ever increasing the flowÕs complexity. Eventually, crisp riffs surface amid the escalating gestalt as keyboards generate whimsical passages. As the e-perc persists, establishing rhythms that bob on the fluid sonics like agile corks, a celestial tone wavers into play, giving the music a solemn reverence. The return of the flamenco marks a transition point in which the tune enters a more pensive phase, with sweeping atmospherics and echoing single-beats. Peripheral sounds and effects creep into the flow as the piece ends.
The next track has a lively start, and things reach a coherent melody far quicker. Choppy keyboards and smooth tones manifest a bouncy tune that is given oomph by erratic percussives. Those choppy keys are providing the main rhythm, while horn-esque electronics waft with mild mirth as they conquer the mix. Those erratic beats had sprouted additional beats and are now producing a soft tempo of some intricacy. Just as the choppy keys resurge and mutate into a more fluid state, the flamenco guitar appears, its lilting strings lending everything a romantic flair. As the guitar begins to flesh out into a lush embellishment of the overall melody, new electronics, shrill-yet-fragile, kick in and compliment the guitar's mounting complexity. There is no fade-out; the piece concludes in a civilized and understated finale of the elements.
An excellent dose of the type of peaceful-melodics-growing-into-sprightly-passages one has come to expect from these guys.
Matt Howarth, www.soniccuriosity.com


We don't trifle with the art of creating EM in the Manikin studios. The Schrittmacher Sequencer and the Memotron are two innovations of the German label craftsmen which propel the music of Keller & Schönwälder towards other digital heavens. Recorded in Luxembourg, 2010, “Eglise de Betzdorf” made all the display of the crystalline tones and follows the oasian and poetic tangents from the Repelen series, in particular Repelen 3, with minimalist soft rhythms where a kind of progressive New Age calls to mind the hypnotic structures of the famous German duet and their faithful accomplice Bas Broekhuis.
Synth pads of fogs tinted of morphic blue confront themselves in an introduction where the ringings of carillons and Arabian percussions draw the rhythmic dusts of "Silent Running Part I and II". The intro is of shamanic poetry with bells of wizards which ring in the slow violin tears of a melancholic synth. One guesses a muffled rhythm answering to the dusts of the winds which entail the prisms of the carillons towards the chords of a guitar forged in the solitude of the electronic machines. The sound effect is striking. One would really believe to hear an acoustic guitar played the airs of desperados on the ringings of the carillons and the rattle shakers percussions. And quietly the structure of "Silent Running Part I and II" is taking shape in the vapors of absent voices and the skipping of a soft movement of sequence which spreads a mesmerizing and delicious furtive rhythm. A delicate rhythm which borrows the same paths as Sunset Café (Repelen 3) but with a more romanced and moderate approach where the delicate arpeggios of synth take a more lyrical touch, becoming confused easily into the notes of an acoustic guitar and of its Arabian nomads' airs. Bas Broekhuis makes roll his sticks in soft drum rolls while the synths pour mist of silvery dusts, dipping the contemplative sweetness of "Silent Running Part I and II" into ambiences a bit cosmic. The influence of contemporary Schulze is remarkable on this long minimalist ode which boasts about its sound wealth as it progresses. The Arabian flutes caress the fine kicks of the percussions, while the rhythm becomes less dreamy and more electronic before evaporating in desert winds and astral voices. There where are dragging chords and percussions which deny the abandonment of a rhythm, there where are singing Persians and seraphic voices to put to sleep "Silent Running Part I and II"."Tea with an Unknown Girl" is as much delicious. The rhythm stands over finely stroboscopic lines of sequences which wind up and criss-cross in a pure movement of static delight where the percussions of Broekhuis support marvellously the dance of these rotary keys. The harmonious ambience is always so near to the oasian approaches that the trio seems to like since the musical adventures of Repelen.
The oniric flutes and the angelic voices are the bed of ethereal atmospheres which cradle this passive rhythm whereas the chords of guitars, stolen from the contemplative synths, draw harmonies borrowed to nostalgia and sing of their emotional pinches into the astral mists of synths. Synths which caress our hearing with superb solos, delicate and creative but especially very electronic. It is a very beautiful track with a rhythm as much softly as the harmonies which quieten it.
Even if we always have the vague impression of hearing a music that we have already heard, the music of Keller & Schönwälder always remains as attractive than its hypnotic structures. “Eglise de Betzdorf” dips us back in the Arabian moods and the magic of the 1001 nights that the trio kissed in Repelen 3. It's soft, oniric and it's a delicious mixture between the Teutonic minimalist electronics and the tranquillity of a progressive New Age. And I like this initiative that the Manikin label implants by realizing under the shapes of EP the performances of his craftsmen in concert or shorter albums which don't reach the 77 minutes mark. Remember the time when vinyl last 45 minutes? Shorter for the better! Those were the days which saw much of the classical EM produced to date... and this even if sometimes we have this vague impression of hearing a music that we have already heard.
Sylvain Lupari, synthsequences.blogspot.de

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released January 1, 2013

Naast hun “reguliere” albums, starten Bas Broekhuis Detlef Keller en Mario Schönwälder bij deze ook met een serie ep’s. Er zijn meer elektronische musici die dit doen, bijvoorbeeld Tangerine Dream. De muziek van “BKS” heeft echter wel meer betekenis dan wat hun verre voorbeelden tegenwoordig doen. Eglise De Betzdorf kent twee lange stukken, van ongeveer 25 minuten en ongeveer 13 minuten, opgenomen in het gelijknamige Eglise De Betzdorf in Luxemburg, 2010. Het eerste stuk Silent Running Part I & II opent met warme celloklanken en de percussie van Broekhuis. Op gegeven moment valt er kalme sequence in, gaat Bas drummen en horen we een solo op elektrische piano en (gesamplede) akoestische gitaar. Het is een heerlijk relaxed stuk wat overigens wel iets weg heeft van het gelijknamige nummer van Klaus Schulze, afkomstig van zijn album Trancefer uit 1981.Tea With An Unknown Girl begint met een krachtige sequence en snaredrums waarna opnieuw een akoestisch gitaarachtig geluid volgt. Langzaam wordt naar een climax gewerkt met een vette synthesizersolo. BKS doen er goed aan om deze ep’s uit te brengen want al hun muziek is (althans bij mij) welkom.
Website: www.manikin.de
Paul Rijkens, IO Pages

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