Label: cortizona – cortizona 008
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
Country: Belgium
Released: 13 Sept 2019
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental
There is an off-hand, almost unfinished quality to the record that fascinates me every time I press play: someone seems to have arranged a chemistry set with some very personal vials, tubes and ingredients, only to wander away and let it run its course.
This person who is ‘Köhn’ seems to have no interest in seeing the tiny blizzards and blue-phosphorescent stars that pop out of his own chemicals. The whole thing is for us to dissect and admire, I feel certain that Köhn is already onto something new.
Probably something so much further out it only exists in the ether.
(Excerpt of the included liner notes by Brecht ‘Razen’ Ameel)
The goal was to make music that was rhythmic but without obvious percussion and drum sounds, to sample anything and hear what was possible or how it would inspire me. No effects, I didn’t want to use any effects like reverb or delay, except as part of the sound. I wanted the sound to be dry and direct. No washes of reverb or sounds
drowning in echo. This was not supposed to be an ambient record. Only the last two tracks were allowed an exception to this. Sounds belong to the room they’re played in. I didn’t want them to be in a space before leaving the speakers. Electronic sounds have no original acoustic space nor are they enhanced by a resonant body before they enter the air through a loudspeaker. I wanted the electronic sounds to be raw in that aspect, no polish or fake space. This, the sound of bedroom production..
Tracklist
A1 Karohte 2:52
A2 Köhnepijp 5:50
A3 Köhtels 3:30
B1 Wortel 5:23
B2 Nöhk 4:22
B3 Köhnepoht 4:21
C1 Köhn Met Pruimen 2:21
C2 Clover 4:17
C3 Kodde 3:41
C4 Vlaamsche Hangoor 5:12
D1 Zoef 7:03
D2 Köhnetand 8:37