Top Bar
Musique Machine Logo Home ButtonReviews ButtonArticles ButtonBand Specials ButtonAbout Us Button
SearchGo Down
Search for  
With search mode in section(s)
And sort the results by
show articles written by  
 Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Klaus Lang - Organ Works Vol 1 [God Records - 2015]

Klaus Lang  is an Austrian composer, concert organist, & improviser. This vinyl release offers up two twenty to twenty five minute pieces of thickening & slowly shifting sonics for the organ.

On the first side we have "17 symmetrien"- this track is built around slowly shifting layers of organ sustain & hover.  The track has a rather nicely brooding & semi-angular feeling about it, as one layer of sustained & sinister organ simmer feeds into another, building up and up the thick-ness of the track. It’s like the sonic equivalent of watching a dense mesh of grimy & dirty colours slowly move & meld, or the eerier shifting swirling thickening mass of shadows. With-in the mesh of organ layers you can make out the instruments more rising /religious tinged qualities, and at others the instruments more deep/ dense simmering black-ness.  At times the mass seems to thin back briefly to one or two layers of organ, but fairly soon the dense ‘wall’ of sound returns once again.

Track two is entitled "Mars Attack", and fittingly this starts off with a single organ creating a slowed  down version of the classic hovering UFO sound. As the track moves along into its first minute you can make out can make out a mix of rising sub-organ tones & snapping peddle detail. Then at the two minute mark this circling mass of amassed organs takes centre stage- from this point onwards the track moves between sudden dense amassed organ sustains, and more pared back shifting layers of organ tone; where you can define more single organ detail. In it’s last few minutes the track pares back to more angular hovering/drone layers, which brings us nicely back to the UFO sound like setting again.

So if you like often dense, sometimes angular & brooding organ based drone work this is worth a look, and I looking forward to hearing more of Mr Lang’s other work.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
Latest Reviews

Klaus Lang - Organ Works Vol 1
Klaus Lang  is an Austrian composer, concert organist, & improviser. This vinyl release offers up two twenty to twenty five minute pieces of thicken...
160725   Terror In The Fog: The Wallac...
150725   Olion/ Dresser - Split
150725   Vilgoc & Inanition - Split
140725   Pierre Bastien & Michel Banab...
110725   Alternative TV - Direct Actio...
110725   Theme - Meditations on Space,...
110725   Pitchshifter - Peel Sessions...
100725   John Scott - Symptoms OST
100725   Torsofuck - Feasting On Carve...
100725   Dachra - Dachra(VOD)
Latest Articles

Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sharp t...
It’s fair to say the Sharksploitation genre is often tried, tested, and to be honest, tired. Fear Below is a 2025 Australian film that tries to do some...
180625   Matthew Holmes - Of razor-sha...
280525   The Residents - Visits From T...
090525   Ennaytch - Of walls, abused ...
150425   Dead, Dead Swans interview - ...
110325   Sebastian Tomb - Walls of unb...
040225   Alien Sex Fiend - Possessed B...
231224   Best Of 2024 - Music, Sound &...
191224   Splintered - Somewhere Betwee...
031224   Shane Ryan-Reid - Coerced and...
221024   Whore’s Breath - life’s h...
Go Up
(c) Musique Machine 2001 -2025. Twenty four years of true independence!! Mail Us at questions=at=musiquemachine=dot=comBottom