7"
One of the more sought after releases in the IDDB 7" series is given another run via Quirlschlängle, the label operated by Brannten Schnure's Christian Schoppik. BS have been given a good deal of airtime round these parts and for good reason, and the punchily titled Ei, Wir Tun Dir Nichts Zuleide!, a line taken from German folk song 'Summ Summ Summ', is as beguiling as we've come to expect from the duo, a haunted wash of palimpsestic sampling, ghostbox ethereality and sing-song vocals that dances a fine line between child-like innocence and portentous dread. More than once have I thought of this music in relation to Haneke's White Ribbon...What's especially notable here is how adaptable their approach is to the short-form as it is the long. That's what happens when you've full command of an aesthetic - the idea is communicated in an instant and really, it takes less than a second to recognise who this is. Because of that, it's also perhaps the best entry in the IDDB catalogue, a perfect realisation of what that series was conceived to do: grand ideas expressed in succinct ways. And whether large or small, the Brannten Schnure vision remains totemic.
