[ B O L T ] + Harald Schulte
In a time in which music develops into a consumable piece of pop culture or high class event and in which dance strives more for technically perfect execution and professional and beautiful movements, ambient and drone music and butoh dance display a severe contrast to that.
Instead of producing easily listenable music for the masses or even follow musical trends drone creates timeless and ageless soundscapes - calm or noisy, sometimes hiding melodies within, usually hard to grasp.
Not wanting to define time and space through spacial and rhythmical patterns butoh instead seeks to invoke the feeling of space and time in the recipient. Movements are being limited and concealed by placing the search itself inside of the intrinsic self of the dancer, not their exterior. Traditional, well known points of view and safe havens in music are being disbanded, deranged, partly even destroyed.
Harald Schulte creates a extreme presence with his dance, which is captivating and hard to get at the same time - a haze, a darkness, a maelstrom. In the interaction with [ B O L T ]’s music which opens up rooms instead of being shut off, poses questions instead of offering simple answers and dissolves time instead of taking it, an uncanny universe revolves around it.
[ B O L T ]
If you close your eyes [ B O L T ] sometimes sounds like it hypnotizes your inner eye into a catatonic state in which you question everything in existence while at the same time guiding you through the unknown and onto safe surface again, after a memorable ride. Sometimes it sounds like a tsunami of darkness, surprisingly full of rage albeit being only two bass guitars and drums.
If you now need genre definitions after this description you might enjoy [ B O L T ] if you listen to drone, doom, metal, experimental music, noise and ambient.
Harald Schulte
Harald Schulte has a diploma in psychology and is a graduated dance educationist focusing on butoh and contemporary dance. Its influences and their philosophical basis paired with the characteristic individuality of this dancing style create a timeless experience, a spaceless environment culminating in an immersive whole. Schulte’s performances occupy concealed spaces and open up an aesthetic connection between them.
Credits
Released on vinyl by dunk!records on 14/08/20 • © 2020 dunk!records, DNK20101 • Vinyl pressed at dunk!pressing
On this record [ B O L T ] is:
Thomas Rosen (bass), Maik Parker (drums), Andreas Brinke (bass)
Choreography and performance by Harald Schulte
Recorded by Andreas Brinke at Toppershouse Recordings • Mixed and mastered by Andreas Brinke
Artwork and layout by Jasmina Brinke • Based on pictures by Daniel Schulte
Video shot and edited by Daniel Schulte