Friday 20 February 2015, 8pm
Legendary Kompakt co-founder Wolfgang Voigt presents his Rückverzauberung project – an extension of his modern classical work under the Gas moniker – which he performed to a rapturous reception as part of the St. John Sessions in Hackney in 2013.
“This, to put it simply, was a masterclass in ambient music. The sounds, beautiful; the transitions; perfect; the experience, unforgettable. There is a reason some artists’ careers last for decades and never seem to falter while others run out of ideas in a matter of years and that’s their ability to always reinvent themselves, push themselves further and always have something awe inspiring to present their audiences and Voigt has all that in abundance.” – A Closer Listen, review of Voigt's performance as part of the St. John Sessions.
Wolfgang Voigt is an artist, music producer, and the co-founder of the Cologne techno label Kompakt. He is considered the most important pioneer of so-called Cologne minimal techno (Sound of Cologne). For more than 20 years now, he has been realigning the boundaries between techno and art music, between minimal and ambient, under innumerable project names (Mike Ink, Love Inc., Studio1, Gas, Freiland, Sog,...). His most recent project, Rückverzauberung, is an advancement of his globally acclaimed music project Gas, which, with its unusual combination of reduced technoid and abstract-amorph classical sound structures, enthralled a global audience worldwide far beyond the electronic music scene.
