We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Gute und Schlechte Zeiten

by ERHARD HIRT

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    EXCLUSIVE!
    (FMP OWN-90003)
    http://fmp-label.de/fmplabel/catalog2/own90003.html
    .
    Erhard Hirt's solo guitar sets out to reimagine the sonic possibilities of the instrument. Over the course of 18 concise pieces, he explores a variety of textures and approaches, creating compelling soundscapes that range from the bracingly frenetic to the lushly synthetic. "Guitar Solo" remains a vanguard work.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $11.49 USD  or more

     

1.
2.
3.
Drone 05:37
4.
Auge Und Ohr 04:26
5.
Staff 03:23
6.
Kermesse 02:00
7.
Feedback 04:43
8.
Percussion 04:44
9.
Drive 04:04
10.
11.
Mit Klammern 05:03
12.
Mit Motoren 04:28
13.
Flute 02:09
14.
Klipp & Flap 02:05
15.
16.
17.
18.
Synthesizer 03:02

about

All compositions by Erhard Hirt.

credits

released November 30, 1994

REVIEWS

Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD: 4 Stars

"This collection of 18 short improvisations for solo electric guitar and guitar synthesizer provides an ideal introduction to Hirt's unusual sound world. The appropriately titled 'Drone' sets up a static bass drone which is then embellished by a mesh of guitar synthesizer lines. The strangely beautiful, chiming quality of 'Slow Music' with its unpredictable pitch wavering and distortion is reminiscent of Hans Reichel's work; 'Klapp & Flap' uses synthesized percussive effects, and 'Flute' counterpoints flute sounds with sharply plucked strings. Concise and always bursting with unclassifiable inventiveness."
- Rubberneck

"Fans of Fred Frith's guitar-on-the-table approach, or Jim O’Rourke's most woolly playing, will take an instant liking to Erhard Hirt's unique, apoplectic style of improvisation. From the opening tape and string slippage of "Good Times, Bad Times" to the breakneck freakout bending and mauling of "Drive," Hirt has devoted himself to being an improviser first and a musician second — and no, that's not a negative comment. Hirt's stylistic variances are enormous, and his detuned approach to the fretboard allows more than a few microtonal possibilities to emerge from the maelstrom. There's a percussive edge to even the most limpid of pieces (such as "Auge und Ohr"), and his knowledge of how to create the appearance of ghostly arpeggios — when in fact there are only multiple vibrating strings — works to extreme measure on "Klapp and Flap."
- All Music Guide

"It would be easy to talk about Erhard Hirt’s playing in poetical terms – descriptions of celestial bells, tidal sustains transforming into bone-jarring snippets of “pure sound." Easier anyway than trying to describe this hour-long collection of guitar alchemy in terms of other guitarists or influences, which are both apparent and invisible. To be sure, I could say that the clarity and complexity of these pieces is remarkable: few processing-electric guitarists have achieved this kind of tonal variety in such compact form. I could speculate that, in the areas he works; only Henry Kaiser, Dennis Maxfield and Jim O’Rourke are at his level in the techno-improvising guitar world. More importantly is a certain unseeable quality that I enjoy very much on Gute und schlechteZeiten, (Good and bad times); the feeling that Hirt plays primarily with his brain. Internal logic of processing equipment and the internal-externalized logic of the musician working closely to create an illusion that he has bypassed the “hands-on-strings” guitar playing for a more cerebral method: mind-direct-to-disc. Ultimately it doesn’t matter if you read that Hirt’s guitar sound like a pipe organ dumped on its digital ear. As Duke Ellington said, “If it sounds good, it is good”, and this CD sound very good."
- The Improviser


Erhard Hirt: guitar solo

Part 2, 4, 7, 11, 17 played on Gibson ES-175 hollowbody electric guitar
Part 1, 10, 15 played on Steinberger guitar
Part 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18 played on Hohner-Steinberger with guitarsynthesizer (18 synthesizer only)

Recorded by Bernward Müller in December 1991 (part 2, 4, 7, 11, 12, 13, 17 & 18) and in May 1993 (part 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15 & 16) at c.u.b.a. Münster, Studio Bernward Müller.
Digital handling by Jens Carstensen.
Produced by Erhard Hirt.

Booklet design/Layout: Matthias Grunert.
Photos: Ralf Emmerich.

All music heard as played except track 5, which is two pieces cut together.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Destination: OUT store Borken, Germany

The exclusive home of FMP digital releases.

contact / help

Contact Destination: OUT store

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Destination: OUT store recommends:

If you like Gute und Schlechte Zeiten, you may also like: