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Terre Thaemlitz - Replicas Rubato
Terre Thaemlitz - Replicas Rubato
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Mille Plateaux - LP
Germany, 1999
Ambient / Piano / Gary Numan
Two things I knew prior to listening to this record were a) that the admiration I developed for Terre Thaemlitz since stumbling across DJ Sprinkles's releases in high school never ceased to grow, and b) that I never felt the need to go pass my relative indifference to Gary Numan's music . Replicas Rubato, an album comprised of digital piano covers of songs from Gary Numan's early releases changed the latter and reinforced the former.
Thaemlitz's piano arrangements, bathed in unreal reverb, worked as a revelatory prism, revealing the sophistication of the compositions of Gary Numan, whose typically post-glam synthetic arrangements and flanger sound formerly kept hidden to me - like that unexpected note that keeps on coming back on "Stormtroopers in drag", or the complex succession of chords on "Cry The Clock Said" and "Sister Surprise" . It's relatively on point to call my meeting with this release transformative, as the music comes with an essay where Thaemlitz discusses at length questions of fluidity and sedimentation in regards to identity construction.
It's transformative as any artistic production is or should be. But it's haunting like few are, in a very specific way: that of melodies infiltrating one's memory, thus slightly redefining one's own identity. And as I'm writing these lines, I'm realizing the obvious: that both Gary Numan's music and Terre Thaemlitz's release both very obviously quote Philip K. Dick's Replicas, the cyborgs made world-famous by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and whose themes are precisely about identity and memory. I guess content and form meets perfectly then, on these stunning piano pieces. An amazing release, a great essay and a stunning portrait of Terre Thaemlitz, wearing that gorgeous S/S 1999 dress by Olivier Theyskens. (M/M with poster and Terre Thaemlitz's essay - stock copies)
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