Pieter Kock
-Bright Bars From The Stars
Different Edits of Snowy White Hammond Birds and Haunted Back To The Future appeared on "Who Told You You Were Naked" (Tape By Full Body Massage)
Mastering & Cut by Rashad Becker
Art by Pieter Kock and Meeuw
His new Bright Bars From The Stars album on Meakusma is a dizzying amalgam of moods and influences. From ghostly and contemplative tracks to spaced-out and dubbed-out dark dancefloor psychedelia infused with melodics, phrasing, and percussive patterns reminiscent of pop and avant-garde alike, Bright Bars From The Stars features a full album on vinyl, with an extra CD included. Kock is a versatile chronicler of the night, capturing the beauty, loneliness, and endless possibilities of wide avenues pining for neon lights, futuristic descents into past moods and modes, and all.
14 tracks in total, Bright Bars From The Stars is a cosmic, at times gentle, at times confrontational affair that brims with ideas and influences. Combining sounds, rhythms, melodies, and textures from a wide variety of sources and meanings, Pieter Kock brings all of his influences together, intent on finding new paths of thinking and feeling. His pictures printed in the CD booklet give some kind of indication of his artistic process, without ever wanting to push things in any kind of direction. Cocktail bars of a dystopian future, unite! Bright Bars From The Stars is the soundtrack to a very encompassing and transformative night out.
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Cosmic dubbed-out dancefloor psychedlia from Berlin on the Belgian Meakusma Label
https://www.musicmaniarecords.be
Slowly, slowly does it for sud trader Pieter Kock, taking his taste for lower BPMs to new levels with his suite of crawl-paced froth for fans of Tolouse Low Trax and Vladimir Ivkovic
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Per chi bazzica la nightlife berlinese, Pieter Kock è meglio noto come DJ Peacock (ma anche Billie & Ballie, Taladu), figura di spicco e organizzatore del bar/club O Tannenbaum. Bright Bars From The Stars, il suo sesto album dopo Facial Recognition del 2022, rappresenta un ulteriore capitolo di una personale visione psichedelica, intrecciando un variegato universo di ritmi elettronici downtempo, tribali e dal sapore dub. Il risultato è un viaggio sonoro dove le tastiere traducono visioni cosmiche e oniriche, mentre distopie mai troppo inquietanti invitano formano trame notturne che invitano alla scoperta di sé come del prossimo attraverso lenti post-rave.
L’album si snoda in un continuum che evoca le campagne trasfigurate di Harmonia, Cluster e Brian Eno, così come i paesaggi metafisici degli Orb e dei KLF, senza mai scadere in citazioni esplicite. Il microcosmo sonoro di Pieter Kock, con le sue melodie, ritmi ed effetti sapientemente orchestrati, si regge in modo autonomo. Se proprio si vuole tracciare un parallelo, lo si può fare con l’universo surreale di Piotr Kurek e le sue documentazioni extraterrestri. Ne emerge un “suono botanico”, espressione di germogli e fioriture, come accade in Snowly White Hammond Birds, o di una fauna più spettrale e interlocutoria, evidente in For Feldman (un omaggio al compositore americano delle Nature Pieces) e nella cinematica Haunting To The Future, che richiama le colonne sonore immaginarie di Eno.
La tracklist è varia e sfaccettata, spaziando tra umori balearici di fine anni ’80 (Bright Bars From The Stars), minimalismi tardo Philip Glass (This Bamboo Is Poisoned), eppure mantenendo una coerenza di fondo. Ogni traccia si configura come un tassello di un mosaico incantevole o come un cocktail servito al bancone di un bar in un’altra galassia. L’intero album è un invito alla scoperta, una costellazione di suoni e visioni che trascende generi e confini.
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With »Bright Bars From The Stars«, Pieter Kock delivers a house and downtempo album that’s delightfully off the beaten track. While brimming with creativity, the album shares a defining characteristic: hardly any track undergoes a truly noticeable, striking development. Instead, the tracks almost always reveal their components and secrets right from the start. This is a mark of quality, as the music doesn’t lose any tension. On the contrary, this openness allows the producer to focus much more on the subtle micro-changes—it’s these that ultimately create the special atmosphere.
»Bright Bars From The Stars« is seven tracks long. The beginning and the end are formed by the slowed down, tribalistic pieces »Ko Blij Nie Sta« and »This Bamboo Is Poisoned«. Alongside the beautifully sad deep-house track »Facial Recognition«, it is above all »Giving In A Box Office« that sets the LP apart from many productions. »Bright Bars From The Stars« is a deep, somewhat confusing album. In its seemingly transparent nature there are a multitude of folds to be discovered. As befits sophisticated minimal music, it takes time. If you give the pieces that time, a power and beauty of its own unfolds.
https://www.hhv-mag.com
The guy behind the counter at Berlin’s O Tannenbaum bar and club has been on a tear recently, with releases on Meakusma, Moonwalk X, RIO and forthcoming on Macadam Mambo, Like some of the music of Manchester’s YOUTH label, it seems to resonate with both dancefloors and atmospheric bar spaces. “Sting” is a great example, with beats that don’t force you to listen in a particular way, but create multiple points of resonance for the listener and the body. Via Bandcamp
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