Extended Guitar Trio:
Erhard Hirt - Hans Tammen - Nick Didkovsky

recorded on October 2, 2024 at Pumpenhaus, Münster
by Hirzel Hirzelnsen (SM57/DI-Box/MidasM32/Reaper)
mixed by Hans Tammen
cover image by Lindsay M. Robbins,
photo by Dorothee Nolte
design by Erhard Hirt

Hans Tammen, Erhard Hirt, Nick Ddidkovsky at KLANGZEIT FESTIVAL, Münster, October 2nd. 2024 © Dorothee Nolte

"Guitars, guitars, guitars. So many styles, approaches, players. So many records. In a perfect universe (which we all know doesn't exist), I would have pubbed this before last Friday (which was Bandcamp Friday). Oh well. Better late than never. Here are three I dig...
New Yorker Nick Didkovsky's axe has made its mark in hard rock, metal, RIO-esque prog, and computer-aided modern compositions. He's the only musician I'm aware of who's played with Alice Cooper, Fred Frith, and Hugh Hopper, but he's also played free improv in outfits like Zinc Nine Psychedelic and Eris 136199. Last October, he traveled to Germany to perform in the Extended Guitar Trio with longtime collaborators Erhard Hirt and Hans Tammen. The results have been released, digitally and on CD, as MUNSTER 02 OCT 24. The four pieces collected here require multiple attentive listens to hear all that's happening. In these three-way conversations, the corporeality of fingers on strings collides with the sci-fi futurism of electronic sounds that are barely recognizable as guitar, all rendered in extreme close-up fidelity. (This would be a good one to listen to through headphones.)" The Stash Dauber stashdauber.blogspot.com/2025/03/things-we-like-extended-guitar-trio-ava.html

“… I find this disc to be consistently captivating whether I recognize what is being done or not. Each of these three guitarists play carefully, concentrating on the way their playing shifts as it is manipulated or not. Although this is a live recording, the sound is superbly/warmly captured here. Whether you dig the sounds of experimental electric guitars or even mostly electronic sounds, this trio is a winner for the entire length.” https://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/newsletter_detail.php?newsID=5141

;... Ich finde diese Scheibe durchweg fesselnd, ob ich nun erkenne, was da gemacht wird oder nicht. Jeder dieser drei Gitarristen spielt sorgfältig und konzentriert sich auf die Art und Weise, wie sich ihr Spiel verändert, wenn es manipuliert wird oder nicht. Obwohl es sich um eine Live-Aufnahme handelt, ist der Klang hier hervorragend eingefangen. Egal, ob man auf experimentelle E-Gitarrenklänge oder sogar auf überwiegend elektronische Klänge steht, dieses Trio ist auf ganzer Länge ein Gewinn.“ (Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG Newsletter, March 21th, 2025) 

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