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Am Anfang war der Irrtum

by Fratze

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1.
Zecke beißt Auge 03:06
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2.
Koboldtier 03:55
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3.
I'm a Jellyfish 04:47
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4.
I'm a Jellyfish - Part 2 05:13
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5.
Fly Sucks Heart Dry 04:47
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6.
Aasgesicht 05:35
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7.
Vielfüßiger Sonnenfresser 04:54
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8.
Flötenspiel vs. Mauerstein 06:12
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9.
Praying Pontifex - Endgame 02:57
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about

After various projects by the same artist, interpreting different genres such as experimental folk, power electronics and black metal in relatively pure form, FRATZE sort of represents the culmination of all these musical facets. Conventional listening habits are consistently ignored, if not deliberately negated, which is reflected both in the partially glaring heterogeneity of the individual tracks and in the general mode of composition, which will rarely satisfy the acquired expectations of customary popular music even of the extreme, uncommercial kind. And this disruption already starts at the choice of tools, insofar as the applied instrumentation not only changes throughout, but appears in unusual combinations to boot.

The melodic themes are led partly by folkloristic acoustic guitars, partly by retro-synth sounds; the rhythmic foundation is sometimes set in subtle grounds of various analogue percussion elements, sometimes poured into concrete molds of harsh electronic beats. This frame is coated with multiple layers of more or less dominant home-made instruments, whose origin is not always recognizable at first: from a variety of membranophones, to obscure melodic mallet instruments and steel drums, as well as buzz saw blades, wheelbarrows and stones. Everything finally topped off with monotonous chanting voices, which serve rather as atmospheric devices than to introduce independent melodic motifs.

The resulting songs meander constantly between wavy neofolk and old-school industrial noise, with various influences from progressive avantgarde black metal. But as soon as you get settled in a musical mood, FRATZE surprises time and time again with unexpected accents giving each song an additional unique touch, such as sudden ultra-distortion guitar cues, diverse violent vocal eruptions, or delicate exotic flute leads.

The album’s visual concept is designed along a thread of the solo artist’s tattoo body art, which emblematizes the personified lyrical process of identification. Its patterns are treated as thematic parallels to the Jungian archetypes of the collective unconscious.
Analogous to Cartesian epistemology, where all sense of being relies on doubt, awareness here is based on original, fundamental error (German: “Irrtum”). In reference to the metaphorical ancient folk paradox in logic, the question for the reason of reasons doesn’t aim for either chicken or egg, but implies a categorical causality fallacy. Thrust into unmasked existence, the individual creature experiences failure of free development caused by a discrepancy of imposed cultural illusion and ugly reality hidden underneath. It targets the objective of self-discovery after removal of the chimerical masquerade in order to overcome the error, thus resolving the principal existentialist contradiction.

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released December 11, 2020

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Fratze Berlin, Germany

The grimace (German: “Fratze”) is a distorted form of expression. This distortion always has its origin in the being hidden behind the grimace. In this case, music is acted out as a mode of grimacing – meaning a struggle with, and a distortion of, inner states of mind and thought – whereas every grimace has its own character. Its own element. Its own effect. ... more

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