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A preview of the WERKTAG/CHESSEX/BUESS LP which features two new works by composers Alex Buess and Antoine Chessex out on October 30th 2015. Pre-order now over at the A Tree in a Field Records webshop: http://bit.ly/1HbzL0e

WERKTAG/CHESSEX/BUESS takes its roots in the Zurich based trio WERKTAG, initiated in 2012, and to which Alex Buess and Antoine Chessex are now both bringing their own contribution.
WERKTAG evolves in the tension field between written, experimental and improvised music and tends to have a weakness for the combination of acoustic instruments and live multi-track electronic music. As a result, the volume is sometimes pretty loud ; something Alex Buess and Antoine Chessex feel more than comfortable with. Belonging to two different generations of swiss musicians, they both find each other at the border of contemporary music, noise, hardcore, and free improvisation. Writting music is a part of both of their creative processes.
The two musicians straight away identified with a music which was both raw and edgy. “Shattered Grid“, by Alex Buess, develops from a calm breath to an over-bursting sound. A sort of tape music for live instruments, together with a 6-track tape which has been cut apart and stuck back together repeatedly. Or, according to Alex Buess' own words : “a morphic field, put together by several patterns. This field consists mainly in samples of acoustic instruments and sound material I synthesised by filtering it or by shortening it and elongating it. Thanks to the setup of the room and the diffusion of sounds, spatial-acoustic swirls are created. Because of the extensive electronic sound amplification, a hyper-acoustic is created.“
“Furia“, by Antoine Chessex, also develops something which could be defined as “hyper acoustic“. The initial peace and quiet slowly dissolves into the buzzing sound of the three instruments, from which emanates a massive monolith. A vast and impressive resonance space is thus created. Drums, synth and saxophone end up nearly losing themselves in this massive body of sound, although they actually initially created it.
What is here presented on vinyl was recorded in the SRF2 radio studio by Alex Buess. He then reworked the sound, not as far as to write remixes, but allowing singular, independent pieces to emerge. Pieces that may, however, serve as a starting point for future live performances.