Matthias Kaul

Each composition of this CD is dedicated to a person, or to the work of a person: Malcolm Goldstein, Amadeu Antonio Kiowa, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elvis Presley and Yoko Tawada. Throughout these five sound portraits, Kaul displays a fertile imagination and a penchant für exotic instrumentation, which includes a hurdy-gurdy, Korean gongs Japanese and Tibetan temple bells, kalimba, Tanzanian lute, bowed gopichand from India, glass harp, kanjira, tabla and frame drum, and Western percussion instruments. Each CD-bag (handmade) is unique, because it is a part of a huge painting, which has been cut into thousand pieces. Above, you see a reduced size reproduction of that painting. Of course, this is a limited edition. With the handwritten number and letter, which you can find somewhere on your CD-bag, you can work out, which part of the painting you are holding in your hands.