A Life Without Fear, by Ekkehard Ehlers

A Life Without Fear

by Ekkehard Ehlers

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1.	Ain't No Grave 04:22	buy track
2.	Frozen Absicht 04:32	buy track
3.	Strange Things 02:46	buy track
4.	A Second Fire 03:42	buy track
5.	Die Sorge Geht Über Den Fluss 03:16	buy track
6.	Nie Wieder Schnell Sagen 04:52	buy track
7.	Misorodzi 03:33	buy track
8.	Maria & Martha 08:48	buy track
9.	Meeresbeschimpfung 04:06	buy track
10.	O Death 05:24	buy track
11.	The End 00:04	buy track

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This is Frankfurt-based Ekkehard Ehlers' (Autopoieses, Marz) seventh release for the Staubgold label. A frontrunner in electronic experimentation and electroacoustic composition, Ehlers has reinterpreted Schoenberg, produced an album of folktronica, and paid aural indietronic tributes to Albert Ayler and Cornelius Cardew on his acclaimed Plays series of EPs. Anomalous in the best sense of the word, A Life Without Fear is as unexpected as Jim O'Rourke's embrace of John Fahey's music a decade ago. Ekkehard Ehlers once again harnesses the genius natural resource that is Joseph Suchy's go-for-broke attitude towards the guitar, and the "electric blues" are given yet another definition. A Life Without Fear occasionally strays into Maher Shalal or 21st century Red Krayola Blues, Hollers and Hellos turf, but wait -- Franz Hautzinger's at the door. Droning, guitar-picked porch blues blend with whiskey-soaked vocals, voodoo jazz, and throbbing electronics while low hums rub up against scraped strings and a buzzed-out harmonica heard through a tin-can. This is rough-hewn experimental bluestronica mixed with graveyard dirt.

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released September 1, 2006

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