TRUE TONE Schläpfer
Cyrill Schlaepfer, a lifetime resident of this region and knowledgeable to the point of obsession. He has done a great service for the region, for yodelers and fans as well as for lovers of ambiences because Schlaepfer, after a stint as a rock drummer, became one of Switzerland's most intrepid recorders of a regions sounds. He has produced rock albums, moved into pop/renovating yodels, produced the poetic-documentary film UR-Musig, then compiled various collections of yodels and also began recording and producing entire CDs of just meadow ambiences, of cows with cow bells grazing, documenting the cow bells, their sizes, shapes, meanings, uses, then moving into the recording of grazing sheep and goats all with bells to create an incredible series of sonic portraits. His new project is immense and awesome - a 3 CD 3 DVD box set of recordings over a 10- year period of the historical steamboats that traverse Lake Luzern, carrying tourists and travelers and hikers to their destinations. He has not merely tried to record the sounds but - and here he somehow reminds me of Werner Herzog - to make sense of them, to organize them in a way that we can gain a deeper higher meaning from the sounds and how these sounds can explain utility or how man relates to his surroundings. Anyway, his obsession led to deeper readings of purpose and sound. |
CSR Records/Film Music & Film Production / Publishing Dreilindenstrasse 31 CH- 6006 Luzern Switzerland |
Phone +41 (0) 44 291 13 93 MAIL: cyrill ( at ) csr-records.ch |