EKG – A Word To The Sufficient

A Word To The Sufficient

Artists: Oskar Aichinger (voc, ferh, organ, p), Susanna Heilmayr (voc, ob,  vla, toys), Burkhard Stangl (voc, guit, vib), Achim Tang (voc, b)

The founding of the formation EKG and the recording of the CD “A Word to the Sufficient” can be backtracked to the request of a producer; the fact that the original intention was never remotely fulfilled but the recording was produced anyway, speaks for him: the producer and “Handsemmel” label boss Klaus Nüchtern. What he asked for was a contemporary meditation over the Evangelist church song-book that goes straight to the heart. Nothing less than such fantastic hymns like “Nun ruhen alle Wälder ” or “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden” were adapted; one feels inspired to write, compose and even sing one’s own heart-warming song.
Heart tones should certainly be heard, and he whose heart is full, is known to sing: singing, melody and song are at the centre of the effort to transform emotions into music; not as a floating, emotional outpouring, but as the concentrated cooperation of a quartet, whose experiences of the old and new, the noted and improvised, acoustic and electronic music are brought together to help the word become sonorous verisimilitude – above all those of the American poet Kenneth Patchen (1911 – 1972).