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Review of "The Wild Joy" on African Paper
Was bleibt vom Klang, wenn man alles Narrative, alles Bildhafte, alles allzu Identifizierbare entfernt? Auf ihrem neuen Album entwirft DuCha
DUCHAMP: The Wild Joy
Veröffentlicht am 2. August 2025 von admin
Was bleibt vom Klang, wenn man alles Narrative, alles Bildhafte, alles allzu Identifizierbare entfernt? Auf ihrem neuen Album entwirft DuChamp ein musikalisches Szenario, das weniger auf konkrete Bedeutung als auf Präsenz und Empfindungen zielt. “The Wild Joy” ist ein Werk, das sich an der Grenze zwischen Struktur und Auflösung mit großer Konsequenz der Aufmerksamkeit auf den Moment widmet.
Die in Berlin lebende Musikerin, Wissenschaftlerin und Kuratorin hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren zu einer der markantesten Stimmen im Bereich kantiger Dröhnung entwickelt. Mit “The Wild Joy” legt sie nun ein Werk vor, das die Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten einer scheinbar statischen Ästhetik so behutsam wie spürbar erweitert mit Mitteln, die zwischen Reduktion, Strukturgefühl und subtiler Expressivität changieren.
Die fünf Stücke des Albums fügen sich zu etwas Geschlossenem, ohne dabei an Spannung und Differenz einzubüßen. Es beginnt mit “Sine Proprio”: dunkles, an Celloklänge erinnerndes Dröhnen und helle, hochtönend leuchtende Sinustöne, leicht verzerrt, fast wie verfremdetes Zikadenzirpen. In seiner kreisenden Wellenform zeichnet sich bald etwas ab, das von einer Gitarre stammen könnte. Nach und nach treten hellere, metallene Klänge hinzu – vielleicht die oberen Saiten einer Bouzouki – und insgesamt hellt sich das Klangbild zunehmend auf. Gegen Ende bäumt sich ein aufwühlendes Geflecht aus hohen Saitenklängen nochmals auf, auch melodische Elemente treten deutlicher hervor.
In “The Shape of Time” spielt DuChamp mit Subtilität und der Zeitwahrnehmung des Publikums: Die nahezu monotone, jedoch nicht starre Grundstruktur wird von kaum merklichen Verschiebungen begleitet – kleine Details, ein unregelmäßiges Raunen im Hintergrund, gelegentlich das kurze Aufleuchten eines Tons, der sofort wieder verschwindet, als wäre er nie da gewesen. Die Kombination aus repetitiver Struktur und subtilen Veränderungen stellt die eigene Zeitwahrnehmung infrage. Entspricht der Titel – die Idee einer “Zeitform” – vielleicht genau diesem Eindruck? Das Stück scheint sich ganz allmählich in die Höhe zu entwickeln, bleibt aber ohne deutlichere Brüche, wie sie das vorausgegangene Stück kennzeichneten. In den letzten Minuten setzt ein Glockenklang ein.
“Epithalamion”, das in altgriechisch wohl Hochzeitslied bedeutet, rückt die Stimme als klangliches Material ins Zentrum, allerdings nicht in textlicher Form. Vielmehr verschmilzt sie mit der dichten Klangschichtung, hebt sich mal tastend, mal fast hymnisch ab, ohne den Charakter des Stücks ins Vokale kippen zu lassen. Erst gegen Ende treten stimmliche Elemente klarer hervor, darunter auch die zweite Stimme von Andrew Kemp, ehe das Stück in einem hellen Glöckeln ausklingt.
“Fulaxos” ist das konzentrierteste Stück des Albums. Ernstes, gleichmäßiges Gitarrenpicking auf tiefen Saiten bildet ein stabiles Zentrum. Allmählich treten flächige Klänge und modulierte Überlagerungen hinzu, doch das rhythmisch-melodische Grundmotiv bleibt durchgehend präsent. Gerade durch die Beharrlichkeit in der Wiederholung und die zurückhaltende Variation entfaltet das Stück seine besondere Intensität. Der Titeltrack beschließt das Album dann mit einem beinahe warmen, offen atmenden Klangbild. Es beginnt mit geheimnisvollem Dröhnen, durchzogen von hellen Tönen, entspannt und hypnotisch zugleich. Gelegentlich gleitet ein Hauch von Stimme vorbei, später setzt dann sogar ein expressiver Gesang ein, vermutlich sind hier Gastvokalistin Rosemarie Föster und DuChamp gemeinsam zu hören. Der Schlusspunkt wirkt nicht nur wie eine Auflösung, sondern wie eine Öffnung.
Verglichen mit früheren Arbeiten – etwa dem Debütalbum “Nar”, das in seinen besten Momenten durch massive, dabei aber fast körperlose Akkordeon-Drones eine Illusion von Zeitlosigkeit herstellte – wirkt “The Wild Joy” konzeptuell und ästhetisch vielfältiger. Damals beeindruckte insbesondere das Spiel mit statischen Strukturen und subtilen Irritationen. Heute ist es eher die Kunst, innerhalb dieser Form neue Farben und Spannungsverläufe zu entwickeln. Das Instrumentarium, u.a. Baritongitarre, Orgel, Synthies, Bouzouki und Stimme, wird dabei nicht zum bloßen Materiallager, sondern bleibt in seiner Eigenheit erfahrbar. Alles ist eingebettet in eine musikalisches Sprache, der das Fragment ebenso vertraut ist wie der lange Atem.
DuChamp, die unter anderem Teil der etwas rockigeren Combos BraBraBra und Supercherie ist und früher als eine Hälfte des Drone-Duos Fausto Majistral auftrat, offenbart mit diesem Album nicht nur eine vertiefte Auseinandersetzung mit Klang und Struktur, “The Wild Joy” ist vor allem ein Beispiel dafür, wie Musik zugänglich bleiben kann, ohne allzu deutliche Kompromisse zu machen. (U.S.)
Label: Torto Editions / Ramble Records / Atena Records
Finally my new album "The Wild Joy" will be released! It was, as usual, a very long process, and couldn't happened without Diego Ferri that once again recorded and mixed me and more than everything, understood me, without the magic of Brain Pyle that did the master, without the beauty of the artwork from Lara Schilling that understood what I meant without having to name anything, without the great support from Tommaso from #tortoedition and Micheal from Ramble Records and without all love and support from my husband and all my friends!
DuChamp "The Wild Joy"
Some albums possess the richness to dissolve genre boundaries, leaving the listener in a delicate state of suspended balance. The new album by Berlin-based artist DuChamp is a journey of development, research, and refinement of a deeply personal voice—one rooted in experimentation and a profound connection with sound itself. It pushes the boundaries of drone music through an ambiguous interplay of lush melodies and deep frequencies.
DuChamp is an Italian scientist, musician and curator based in Berlin, religiously devoted to drone. Her debut album “NAR” has been released in 2013 through the italian cult label Boring Machines. In 2015 the split “Sculpture” with French sound artist Felicia Atkinson was released through Idiosyncratics. In 2016 and 2017 Full Body Massage records released that tapes “Nectere” and the following year “A Blazing World”. Her new album “The Wild Joy” will be released in 2025 by Torto Editions, Ramble Records and Atena Records.
DuChamp record release party tomorrow!
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DuChamp "The Wild Joy" record release
Some albums possess the richness to dissolve genre boundaries, leaving the listener in a delicate state of suspended balance. The new album by Berlin-based artist DuChamp is a journey of development, research, and refinement of a deeply personal voice—one rooted in experimentation and a profound connection with sound itself. It pushes the boundaries of drone music through an ambiguous interplay of lush melodies and deep frequencies.
DuChamp is an Italian scientist, musician and curator based in Berlin, religiously devoted to drone. Her debut album “NAR” has been released in 2013 through the italian cult label Boring Machines. In 2015 the split “Sculpture” with French sound artist Felicia Atkinson was released through Idiosyncratics. In 2016 and 2017 Full Body Massage records released that tapes “Nectere” and the following year “A Blazing World”. Her new album “The Wild Joy” will be released in 2025 by Torto Editions, Ramble Records and Atena Records.
https://tortoeditions.bandcamp.com/.../duchamp-the-wild-joy
Tatsumi Ryusui: Tatsumi Ryusui (JP/DE) is a Japanese-born, Berlin based experimental / noise / ambient sound artist. He processes several proper, accidental or self-build instruments to generate delicate, yet powerful and astonishing ambient textures that connect drone with the cathartic side of noise. https://tatsumiryusui.bandcamp.com/track/since-awhile
Mineo Kawasaki Drummer and composer mineo kawasaki from Japan builds electronic soundscapes with both live drums and a MIDI controller. The solo project employs vinyl sampling infused with elements of house, techno and experimental music to carve tracks that work well both on the headphones and the dance floor.
In 2024, he toured Canada/Iceland and participate in several label's compilation.
mineo kawasaki Drummer and composer mineo kawasaki from Japan builds electronic soundscapes with both live drums and a MIDI controller. The
Doors 19:30, shows at 20 SHARP!
Duchamp live for the Nexus concert series in Kukumu, Berlin 14.03.25
https://orange-ear.de/portfolio-items/duchamp/
Listen/purchase: Xacklebox-I'll Show You! I'll Show All of You by Kitchen Leg records
Second video from Orange Ear, with accordion
amazing video of my show for Orange Ear!
https://orange-ear.de/portfolio-items/duchamp/?portfolioCats=43%2C45%2C44%2C47%2C48%2C46
I'm just back from a wonderful trip in Morocco! I experienced a lot of fantastic non-man and man-made sounds so I'm developing a performance only with #fieldrecordings (on tapes, of course!). Catch me tomorrow night in @madameclaude.berlin for the #experimontag series. I will be joined by my friend Paula aka @processing_____________ that will do some great videos. After me, @nick.dunston banjo set! see you tomorrow! EXPERIMONTAG: Nick Dunston: banjer + DuChamp + DJ OffCourse
small video of my show in Taborkirche on Oct 8th by Loretta
KLr news, July 22
[#] Long time no news entry! Here’s some!
[#] First an unpleasant thing. Deutsche Post increased massively the cost of the so-called “Buch und Wären Sendung”, the small packages that you typically received with out tapes. The cost to ship to the US will be close to 9 €! In order to not shift all the cost to our fans oversees, we had to increase the cost of tapes to 6 €. We didn’t want to join the speculation crowd, but it is really Deutsche Post that forced us to do that.
[#] After a very excellent show in West Germany almost two weeks ago, where they presented also some new songs, Halfsilks will play Fusion Festival this week end, they will be on stage Saturday. In the same festival you ca catch also Jana’s solo Point No Point and Karen’s band Gym Tonic. And, as usual, a lot of very great music, and an inimitable atmosphere.
[#] The Sunday Matinee is resumed, alive and kickin’! We did our June edition some days ago, in the wonderful garden of Villa Kuriosum, hosting live sets of Pieuvre, Rocky Lorelei and Gonghi, plus dj Vomit and the super delicious food of Los Nopales. Drop a line for be in the newsletter -->>[email protected]
[#] We are very happy to announce that we will release a second album from the terrific Earthlogoff. The album is called “Tritium” and sound like an earthquake. Catch them live Saturday July 9th in Kopi!
[#] September 21th is the release date of Matching Outfits first tape, called “A Band Made Out Of Sand”. It features 9 wonderful pop tunes, mastered by Brian Pyle, and you will all be in love with them!
[#] Two shows to catch our beloved Mumbles in the near future: 31.07 in Your Guts Festival, in Hamburg and 24.09 at Ghost Town Berlin.
[#] Very fist show of The Post Spiderhole Ensemble as a band, Sunday Matinee 24.07! More news soon!!!
[#] More releases coming up this year: Adrie’s LP! Ultrabonus! Saiko Ryusui! Vorsicht Kinder! Pieuvre! but all in due time :-)
Presenting my evil twin, SuperCheri
Who knows me also knows how I truly dig music millions of light years from my ecstatic drones that I do as DuChamp. I like to dance, to begin with. I love a lot of loud rock music, the louder the better! So, it happens that in between 2020 and 2021 I had really a lot of time, spend like all of you in waves of anxiety, depression, despair etc. Well, we all went through the pandemic (I actually have Covid right now that I am writing, but being I’m three times vaccinated, it’s still ok) so don’t need to explain. I found myself with time to make music, but with my practice room closed. And my DuChamp music is the music of extasy and I was so far away from that. So I decided to do, as exercise, the following. I had to come up with at least a song for session. The session were in my bedroom, and I was using my Tascam 4-track only. I only had 4 tracks so I had to decide. Actually one track was always the drum machine, so I had 3. I sat there to play, and then, as it always happens, music comes. It turned out to be quite personal, although most songs are very political (personal is politics, right?). Since my husband published his home recording album (The Post Spiderhole ensemble), and it was very well received (it is actually absolutely amazing), I decided that my album should see the light of the day as well. So we publish on Kitchen Leg records. Recording it was a journey, a hard but amazing one, I was literally devouring Tape Op and all interviews with Susan Rogers (the engineer of Prince in “Sign O’ Times”) and then what I learn, is that you have mostly to trust your ears, on tape you got no other clues. I spend one entire day to set up the mic in order to have the guitar sound I wanted. I decided to record the bass on D.I. only, as my bass is absolutely gorgeous (it’s an Höfner!). And couldn’t do punch in by myself, so I had to repeat any time I played wrong, that was aweful, but it also teaches you something. So, those are the songs. “Solida” is a song, that weirdly came out in Italian, about the need to girls and females of being assertives and say “no” when they want, without justifications or excuses. “We despise you” is a song against the cops. It was inspired when I went to a demo for the housing right and there was a lot of cops in front of new buildings, while during the demo of the no-vax, often violent and threating, cops were almost no there. Let’s not call defense or protection of citizen. (For the record: in the last year I had an encounter with a cop that was a very good person, still as a whole don’t like them). “Musicbox” is a piece of heart, is dedicated to the record shop where I used to go as a teen, a wonderful place where I discovered all I know, more or less. “Spinterogeno” is a surf/exotica song. I am crazy for exotica, everyone knows it. “Time” is modeled on “A love bizarre” and I had my husband to sign on it. Talk about time, it’s in between Seneca and Luigino Bruni articles on lithurgy. “Future Tense Bolero” is my anarchist anthem, is about building the future we want NOW and not get discouraged, never, because it will be. “I’m Not” is about the fact that despite I get older, still I don’t care about a lot of things I should, like make career, having the right friends, and sit properly on a chair. “Step Back” is about serial monogamy. I know is better to be alone for a bit to enjoy your own company and set your boundaries, but it never happen to me. “Null Hypothesis” is about the scientific method, First, you should trust your data, and then get other to trust to. Logic and deduction! “Work of Wonders” is for my mom, that left me almost two years ago. As you all know, she was my fist fan, and she was such a wonderful and unique being. I will do a lot of things as artist thinking about her, and the first one is here.
SuperCheri-Featurette by SuperCheri