hans platzgumer & divinités irritées present FINGERFOOD
Hi, it's snacktime everybody!
FINGERFOOD comes in the form of 7delicious appetizers, each snippet prepared to go separately or cut together in a nicely composed combination platter of fried tracks with a thick crust. Like a food intervention, this recording says EAT! Raw, or cooked, Fingerfood is waltzing away, not in a rigid, symmetrically precise variant on the derniere crie of the day, but in many directions, all at once.
This music is not pretentious in its motifs.
It's just there to be yours. Since DER SEPARATOR, Hans Platzgumers first recording on Disko B records, he has refined his secret blend of spices to a grand recipe. You could say his music is 'extreme tracking', the final turnback on the late dramaturgy of songstructure. Nobody can do this in the style the ex-HP ZINKER axeman and current self acclaimed 'snob' of DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN does.
FINGERFOOD was executed together with fellow cooks Gerhard Potuznik (recording artist on Viennas Cheap, Morbid and Sabotage imprints) and Michael Sauer (owner of the Hamburg Club Mojo and compiler of the fine 'are friends electric?' compilations). The recording serves as a connection to previous Platzgumer records on Disko B and L'age d'or. His output functions like a family restaurant, it's pure homecooking so eat what you can. Now, FINGERFOOD definetely is nouvelle cuisine, it appears as a masterpiece of reduction without the nowadays easy to apply minimalism tag. Platzgumer's approach to playing music is 'hot', the selection of spicy sounds and the knowledge of the boiling point serve as his kitchen secret. Main ingredients that he used are Funk, House, Electro and TripHop, all foodprocessed to a Hans Platzgumer 'moon stew'. Cheers, all the recipes you find on the booklet are courtesy of Sandra Bellet, Chef de Cuisine. The question is: Have the tracks been written before they were cooked or was it the other way round? Anyway, we strongly recommend this meal. Tasty! Short BIO: Just to remind you, in the mid eighties, Platzgumer (born Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria) released his eponymous ''Death to the CD" record all by himself. This debut marked his entry into the alternative rock circles. Subsequently his band H.P. Zinker and their early records made the rounds and they became cult stars in the US underground rock scene. For a while H.P. Zinker were operating out of New York City. Nowadays well respected labels like Matador and Thrilljockey were then started to give H.P. Zinker an outlet. Famous indie rock stars were dedicated Platzgumer disciples. After a bunch of well received records, touring back and forth the US of A and Europe, Austrias second most famous man (after Arnold Schwarzenegger) returned to the old world. H.P. Zinker broke up and Platzgumer joined Hamburg's GOLDENEN ZITRONEN. On their milestone record ''Economy Class" he is playing the bass among other instruments. At the same time, he started his solo project AURA ANTHROPICA and released two EPs on Hamburg's L'age D'or label. AURA ANTHROPICA could be described as ''warm, soothing house tunes getting a punkrock treatment". Since August of 1997, Platzgumer is a Munich resident. At the same time his record DER SEPERATOR gets released on Disko B records. He is still a fulltime member of DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN and is planning on his solo projects as well as working in a recording studio in Munich. He produced the Hamburg band Tocotronic. A 12inch under the monniker CUBE&SPHERE entitled ''rorschach" together with Viennese electronic whizzard Gerhard Potuznik is also imminent for release on the Cheap label.