Book & Music Reviews from the Beverly Public Library ? Salon Des ...
This is album number nine by German composer and musician Volker Bertelmann, whose playful but hypnotic approach to crafting pop-minimalistic melodies out of variously prepared and deconstructed toy pianos rarely fails to delight. Compared to 2008?s Ferndorf, the album that first garnered Hauschka substantial attention in the United States (immeasurably helped along by his opening slot on Mum?s tour of the same year), Salon Des Amateurs ? named for D?sseldorf?s ?public living room? at the Museum Caf? of Kunsthalle, at which artists of all kinds gather, either to collaborate or just to kick around in good company ? feels a little predictable, and occasionally even a little tired. It might have made a better EP, cutting out the relative filler and highlighting the handful of tracks that stand out, such as ?Girls? and ?Ping?, the latter of which even sort of swings ? and not like a pendulum, but with, you know, actual soul. However, even at his usual nexus of the clinical (think early Philip Glass) and the giddy (comparisons to the even more helium-addled toy piano experimentalist Pascal Comelade are inevitable), Hauschka is producing consistently lovely, reverie-inducing music out of idiosyncratic patterns of clockwork.
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