The Hafler Trio - Dislocation (1990)

GENRE..... Ambient
LABEL...... Staalplaat
MODE....... VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo
REL.DATE.. 15-07-2008

Alternate version of the Dislocation cassette (Staalplaat 00K, 1986).
Recorded on equipment supplied by and with technical assistance from Robol and Alatek
International.
Original processing completed between 1981 and 1986.
Final reprocessing for CD release completed Jan. 23rd 1990 at The Radio Art Foundation.
Original packaging and symbols by Suitcase Studios, CD package prepared by PVDB.

Dislocation: an archetypal journey on a road from nowhere

Pretty much all of the music that qualifies for the lame but vital epithet "interesting" is
found among the fringes & shadows of most people's perception Unfortunately, these days a
great deal of dross & detritus lurk there too (the kind of feeble fodder served up on blogs
such as "Deleted Scenes, Forgotten Dreams"), but that's usually music that has placed itself
at the edges actively, with the intention of disassociating itself from the mainstream The
best (or, rather, the best of the best) is there because it simply cannot be anywhere else;
in fact, truth be told, it's not even here: it resides precisely nowhere, & makes its point
with a beautiful intensity of thought & bewildering clarity of utterance ò With the literal
meaning in mind, such as this may be called æUtopianÆ music ò The output of The Hafler Trio
could be said to reside in just such a no place

Various parameters need re-thinking & re-shaping in approaching The Hafler Trio's works:
this isn't, in any conventional sense, 'music'ùnor, indeed, could it be described as 'art';
it is something 'other' than either of these things ò This need is, literally, mirrored in
the plethora of paraphernalia that accompany many Hafler Trio releases, where text & image
are frequently shown back-to-front; it suggests many things: the need to look at things in a
new way, & that what appears backward may well not be; the backward writing also suggests Da
Vinci's practice of secreting his thoughts & concepts ò & yet, nonetheless, these works have
qualities that can be said to be both artistic & musical, & as such they provide a 'way in'
ò It's certainly a better approach than to question the author, Andrew McKenzie, who chooses
to hide himself behind layers of pseudo-arcana & quasi-esoterica; this doesn't matter, of
course (outside of religion, when has it ever been profitable to shift attention from the
creation to the creator?), it is the work that must command our interest (not our questions)
&, in turn, it is the work's response (not its answers) that we must face; then & only then,
we shall be provoked for the right reasons

The last five years have seen The Hafler Trio caught in the grip of a fetishistic
perfectionism, with many albums being re-released, some for the second time ò One can feel a
modicum of sympathy for the creative artist wrangling with/against the cold & uncaring,
faceless "industry", but the nature of some of these re-(re-)releases appears superficial &
even pretentious; it also unavoidably elevates the status of the creator to something akin
to the uber-mensch, without whose imprimatur a work is not merely worthless but beneath
contempt ò Turning attention away from such glaring negativities, there's much to rejoice
about in these works; The Hafler Trio have created some of the most breathtaking
electroacoustic & electronic compositions of the twentieth century, worthy of a much wider
recognition & hearing than they have previously enjoyed

Tracklist:

01 tourist with pendulum
02 chronos destroyed

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