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1.
Scintilla 03:24
2.
Vanishing 11:42
3.
Ruins 14:32
4.
Rime 04:39
5.
Density 18:31
6.
Eema 06:48

about

fides krucker - voice
tim motzer - acoustic-electric guitar, electronics, bow
jeremy carlstedt - drums & metals on vanishing and density

. . . . .


our first musical encounter was live in front of a toronto audience on a bitterly cold afternoon. half a year later we improvised for five days at 1k studios in the heart of a philadelphia heat wave.

the choice of a key or mode, the parameters of loops, or microphones; it did not take much for one of us to begin and the other to follow. twice—when one voice was not enough—fides added a second improvised line. afterwards percussionist jeremy carlstedt retraced two of our tracks adding shimmer and pulse.

we think of these spontaneous compositions as sonic films—worlds that might have been, worlds that hint at what we’ve lost, worlds in which to disappear.

another place. another time.

vanishing.



recorded by tim motzer at 1k studio, philadelphia august 2017
mixed by tim motzer and fides krucker august 2018
assistant engineers: jeff chestek, eric bogacz

mastered by eric bogacz at spice house, philadelphia

photography: avraham bank
design: yesim tosuner, backyard design, toronto

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released January 22, 2019

© ℗ 2019 1k Recordings Inc
music by fides krucker and tim motzer
published by one k music co. (bmi)
all rights reserved.
catalogue #: 1k043


Vanishing is the transcendent, cinematic, and utterly beguiling debut album from Toronto avant-garde vocalist Fides Krucker and guitarist Tim Motzer. This duo first improvised together in Toronto in 2017 at the Theatre Centre; seven months later they created an album's worth of material in Philadelphia. The six pieces on Vanishing come off as a book of short stories—vocal stories—conjured through the deeply connected musical conversation between Krucker and Motzer. The artists think of these spontaneous compositions as worlds that might have been, worlds that hint at what we’ve lost, worlds in which to disappear. Sonic films.

Vanishing was released in Canada on March 15th and 16th, 2019 at the Burdock in Toronto with two sold out shows.. This past December their U.S. launch was an intimate, illuminating event at the Areté Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

The album's first track, Scintilla, unfolds tiny emotional fragments of grief and longing while Ruins uses made-up language to evoke disappeared cultures. Vanishing moves through waves of melancholy, each repetition leaving an inky imprint, brush to paper. In Rime fragile breath traces the most tender of ice formations, vocal cord barely touching vocal cord, eventually opening into a wetland of vibration. Density’s thickening texture broods on the state of the world, gathers weight with each motif, steps the listener outside of civilized sound. For Eema, the final track, Krucker’s improvisation is treated in real-time by Motzer's electronics and loops. Layer by layer, the voice is processed and altered, and the resulting world responded to by Krucker until the initial proposition is no longer recognizable. Throughout Motzer's bowed and prepared guitar creates orchestral densities of sound, subtly nuanced chords, melodic clusters, and even percussion à la guitar body itself, perfectly supporting the voice. The effect of this album is that of “two spirits sailing around each other in dream-like currents" (Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery Newsletter, NYC). It will pull you under and, with time, these discreet improvisations promise to open vast worlds of sound to the listener. A universe of voice. A coherence of storytelling.


"Tim Motzer and Fides Krucker have really created something indescribable with this improvisatory composition release. Haunting, beauitiful, terrifying, and testimony to life." Make Weird Music

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