Among their experiments, ALSO not only got the almost-telepathic understanding of each other but also a drone-type-of-tension in their recordings. For almost five years Katharina Ernst (drums) and Martin Sievert (guitar) have been working together. Learning how to use space, pauses, and inner-instrumental interaction. It’s a language on its own. A mixture of King Crimson’s “Red” and the process of nerve removal depicted in the form of a live-recording. From the highly dynamical drum-intro of “Eight” to the random but so important pauses between different parts. These parts are like a necessary prescription. Painkillers. They give you a temporary relax and then a contrasting pressure, with Sievert’s guitar structures. Difficult for sure. Like the amputation chords of “Nine” enhanced by ethnical echoes of Ernst’s drum-parts.
The duo follows a suspense-type-of-compositional architecture not just creating a single tension. But luring the listener and giving us the ability to listen, feel and pass through all the emotionality of their music. Strong and uncompromising.