Album Review: Sicker Man - Dialog (2021)
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Sicker Man - Dialog
Release Date: March 12, 2021
Label: blank records
Format: Vinyl / Digital
Length: 49:39
Genre: Noise / Krautrock / Electronica
Origin: Berlin, Germany
If I did not miscount, this should be Sicker Man's eleventh solo album, next to three singles that were released within the last five years, three albums with Serengeti, and two with João Orecchia. Also, "Dialog" is the second instrumental album by Tobias Vethake, also known as Sicker Man. On his newest release, the cello player from Berlin has recorded eight dialogues, each of them featuring a protagonist from the German capital's improvisational and experimental music scene.
On eight instrumental pieces, Sicker Man and his guests respond to our zeitgeist in which dialgoues seem to get lost, and trench warfare between bitter enemies increases instead. In a cold society where tenacity appears to be stronger than dialogue and communication, Sicker Man and his guests present their artistic response to the status quo: "Dialog".
For around fifty minutes, the nine artists provide us eclectic soundscapes that reach from Krautrock over Electronica to Noise. The versatile sonic dialogue is huge back and forth of different ideas, themes, topics, and gestures. And like in a verbal dialogue, contents merge, fade, come back, and create a colourful and exciting conversation. A recurring element is the sound of a Turkish wedding which is also metioned in the liner notes by Thomas Khurana. The whole text by the philosopher can be read on Sicker Man's Bandcamp profile - or better: on the record jacket.
Sicker Man's "Dialog" is noisy and yet relaxing. It is an experimental sonic trip to lean back to and regain the ability to communicate.
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