Being friends and admirers of each other's work for a long time, electronic music composer / visual artist Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) and composer / voice-artist Blixa Bargeld (also known as singer of Einstürzende Neubauten and guitarist of Nick Cave and the bad seeds) decided to join forces to initiate a collaborative project in 2007. together they developed a musical concept based on the combination of improvisation and abstraction. The impulsive live performance of Blixa Bargeld and the elaborated beat structures and sound landscapes of Alva Noto merge to a surprising and unexpected result. Working on their own experimental material that gains its strength from the spontaneity of the live-performance of Bargeld's voice as well as rethinking traditional songs in their own special manner, they deliver an outstanding and inspiring musical blend for their audience. Crystalline noise formations; phrases, words, syllables of pure sound isolated until normal sense disappears, leaving new, unexpected abstractions to emerge. The most suggestive and nuanced version of 'I Wish I Was A Mole in the ground' since bob dylan." - Sam Davies (the wire 12/09, UK) the collaboration first staged in September 2007 when they united for a special appearance in San Francisco to perform at recombinant media labs studios. Since then they have recorded several tracks, five of which will be released on a preliminary ep on Raster-Noton (r-n 120) in spring 2010. A full length album with 10 tracks (r-n 121) will be released some weeks later. The release will be followed by a live tour at various festivals and concert halls in Europe in June/September 2010. Incl. 75x30 cm Poster!