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Hauschka

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Hauschka’s Bio

Hauschka is the alias of Dusseldorf-based pianist / composer Volker Bertelmann. Having studied classical piano for ten years, and having spent time in a punk rock band, Bertelmann's work is an exploration of the possibilities of the 'prepared' piano - a playfully disruptive intervention into the idea of the piano as a pure-toned, perfected instrument waiting for a gifted virtuoso to play on it.

Volker is a member of Music A.M., a collaboration with Stefan Schneider (To Rococco Rot) and Luke Sutherland (Long Fin Killie); and of the electronic / club tracks duo Tonetraeger, his project with Torsten Mauss.

He released his 2nd full-length, Ferndorf in October 2008 on FatCat’s 130701 imprint, following 2007’s ‘Room To Expand. Room To Expand was comprised of mostly solo prepared’ piano (with a few electronic and instrumental overdubs), Ferndorf is a far more expansive and fully-realised album, bringing in a 2 violin, 2 cello quartet and yet retaining the shivers and tics of the modified internal workings of the piano. Composed in homage to his home village in Germany, Hauschka has orchestrated Ferndorf to be a haunting gorgeous tribute to memory and longing and the wildness of the forest.

Hauschka kicks off 2009 with a beautiful extended EP Snowflakes and Carwrecks - previously unreleased material recorded during the Ferndorf sessions.

"The sounds that Volker Bertlemann creates with(in) a piano are nothing short of astonishing" - 4/5 MOJO

"A rapturous excercise in acoustic electronica... All round, 'Ferndorf' is a sweet and spirited adventure ... exquisitely suggestive of the rainy countryside where Hauschka grew up" - 4/5 Uncut

"A sweet and dizzyingly lovely, yet compellingly, energetic affair ... Hauschka’s ambient post-classicism will (very gently) blow you away." TimeOut LONDON

"At times beautiful, at others intense, ‘Ferndorf’ is an album that deconstructs most preconceived notions of music yet manages to create something astounding and accessible in the process. Brilliant." The Fly

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