Ende de Monats bringen Karlrecords ein neues Album des Hamburger Noisekünstlers David Wallraf heraus. Dem Titel entsprechend enthält “The Commune Of Nightmares” rund vierzig Minuten “Nightmare Culture” auf der Basis von Tapeloops und verteilt auf sieben Tracks voll infernalischen Rauschens und prasselnder Schuttlawinen, die – auch – als unverblümter Kommentar zum Leben des Menschen im Kapitalismus verstanden sind. Vom Label heißt es: “The new album The Commune Of Nightmares by noise artist David Wallraf is a tapeloop-based musical game of cadavre exquis, a technique developed by surrealist artists. David Wallraf is a noise artist and theorist living in Hamburg. His artistic work deals with the repressed and uncanny sonic residues of quotidian life, crafting soundtracks for the creeping disaster we inhabit. His works have been released on numerous international tape labels.

A recent interest of his is the live scoring of silent films, including works by Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren and Jean Genet. His PhD thesis Grenzen des Hörens. Noise und die Akustik des Politischen (Limits of Hearing. Noise and the Acoustics of the Political) has been published in German, an English translation is in progress. The Commune of Nightmares stems from the idea that nightmares are the logical reverse of ‘capitalist realism’: an uncanny undercurrent of daily experiences and an algorithmic haunting of dreams that at the same time is a shared – communal – experience of everybody. All songs are based on tapeloops that were cut arbitrarily from a stash of cassettes, some of which found on the street, others from a stockpile of 4 track tapes recorded in the late 90s and early 2000s – a musical game of cadavre exquis played with random strangers and former versions of DW”. The Commune Of Nightmares erscheint als limitierte, handnummerierte Kassette und digital, ein Release-Konzert findet am Freitag, den 19.01. im Berliner West Germany statt.