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Richter mirrors personal dualities musically with a combination of sounds he created and manipulated samples, blurring their boundaries. “I always try to blur the line between sampling and my own recordings, also between ‘real’ instruments,MIDI, electronics, editing, between authenticity and theatrics\/artificiality,” says Richter. When recording he became aware of how AI text programs processing resembles his own methods. “I had the realization recently that the way I compose is not too dissimilar to what AI software is doing nowadays - especially when the AI is hallucinating (this is the term used when the AI is overloaded\/overcharged\/inundated and comes up with made-up results).” Human behavior reflected in a computer facsimile of human intelligence appealed to the ethos of Black to Comm, whose titles and concepts are often oblique and tongue-in-cheek.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thrill Jockey","offers":[{"title":"Turquoise LP","offer_id":50393809355083,"sku":"2051522","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50393809027403,"sku":"2051521","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50393808830795,"sku":"2051517","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6c7dc24f-d4dd-9e69-c7e1-67548d109e2f_529d899e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726427785"},{"product_id":"seven-horses-for-seven-kings","title":"Seven Horses For Seven Kings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough his output both as a sound artist and through his eclectic Dekorder record label, Back to Comm (Marc Richter) has established himself as a singular voice of new music. His Thrill Jockey debut,\u003ci\u003e Seven Horses For Seven Kings\u003c\/i\u003e is Richter’s most direct and visceral to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA relentless sonic explorer, he approaches the studio as his instrument, using sampling, analogue production and digital manipulation to sculpt audio fragments into surprising new shapes. Samples from Richter’s contemporaries like German composer Nils Frahm are bent and compounded with elements of early recorded music and medieval song, creating pieces that transcend time and genre. Richter blurs the lines between organic instrumentation and digital production to the extent that the two become inseparable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven Horses For Seven Kings was completed during a particularly prolific period for Richter. Working on a broad range of commissions since his last album - from writing for film and theatre works to composing for art installations, apps and sleep music - generated a flurry of new ideas and influences. Extensive touring would equally come to inform a key shift in Richter’s music, simulating the raw, unpredictable energy of live performances on record. While rhythm has been largely absent from previous Black To Comm releases, here the music seems totally bound to it. The album’s breath-taking pace drives Richter’s music to new levels of intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Double Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Jacket with Black Inner Sleeves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP+ - Limited Double Green Vinyl housed in Gatefold Jacket with Black Inner Sleeves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD - Housed in a 4-panel mini-LP style Gatefold Jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thrill Jockey","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50498061926731,"sku":"1050681","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f9223e71-5250-4bda-8d60-b1703162c5d0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727738286"},{"product_id":"oocyte-oil-and-stolen-androgens","title":"Oocyte Oil and Stolen Androgens","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe music of Black To Comm is as powerfully intoxicating as it is subtly unnerving. The solo project of shapeshifting German producer and sound artist Marc Richter, his mastery of sonic manipulation is matched only by his astounding clarity of vision. Following the acclaimed\u003ci\u003e Seven Horses For Seven Kings \u003c\/i\u003ereleased just a year ago, \u003ci\u003eOocyte Oil and Stolen Androgens\u003c\/i\u003e applies Richter’s wild imagination to an exploration of the human voice, standing as some of his most immediate and affecting music to date. Each of his phantasmagoric works is meticulously constructed from an omnivorous array of smudged samples and other sonic detritus, painstakingly collected by Richter from across the history of recorded music or his immediate environment and altered into beguiling new shapes. Sound sources seem tantalizingly familiar and yet often just out of reach, flickering at the edges of the subconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thrill Jockey","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50521742868811,"sku":"1100387","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f857d239-52d2-40ea-bfb0-0efc0c73c079_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727994498"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/black-to-comm.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}