{"product_id":"ungebunden-curated-by-hans-joachim-irmler","title":"Ungebunden (Curated By Hans-Joachim Irmler)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBuy at least three of the four \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtrade.com\/artist\/faust?preorder=true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaust\u003c\/strong\u003e reissues\u003c\/a\u003e and get 10% off. Discount applied at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor over half a century, Hans Joachim Irmler has pursued the outer limits of sound. As a child, he would neglect his flute to pluck at the strings of his grandmother’s zither, cutting his fingers in search of greater resonance and volume. Drawn from an early age to the physical power of sound, he eventually found his instrument in the organ, whose vast sonic range offered seemingly endless possibilities; he still performs on the first organ he built himself. Expanding his sonic palette with synthesisers, tape manipulation and self-modified electronics, Irmler has relentlessly treated music less as composition than as a force of nature, capable of overwhelming, disorienting, destabilising and transforming both performer and listener alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUngebunden\u003c\/em\u003e continues this trajectory. Recorded alone in the Faust studio in Scheer over the course of just three weeks, the album does not revisit Faust as a repertoire or a historical artefact, but as a continuous vessel for pure creativity. Working largely through improvisation, Irmler begins with little more than a direction or impulse, allowing the material to reveal its own logic as it unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Zerfallen Teil I\" moves deeper into unstable territory. Sustained drones and wavering string textures drift against detuned keyboards and cascading delay lines, creating shifting rhythmic relationships that seem perpetually on the verge of disintegration. Synthesiser motifs spiral upwards before being interrupted by bursts of interference, mechanical screeches and abrupt spatial dislocations, the track's tone straddling experimental electronics and the churn of doom rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough Ungebunden, Hans Joachim Irmler poses Faust as a question, its sound a force capable of unsettling assumptions, disrupting perception and opening unforeseen possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eA1 Gefallen\u003cbr\u003eB1 Zerfallen Teil I\u003cbr\u003eB2 Zerfallen Teil II\u003cbr\u003eB3 Auseinandergefallen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bureau B","offers":[{"title":"LP -  Clear","offer_id":57776764715339,"sku":"R9488-7558","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57776764748107,"sku":"R9488-6223","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":57776764780875,"sku":"R9488-1153","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/BB509.jpg?v=1783337551","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/ungebunden-curated-by-hans-joachim-irmler","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}