Bleep

Pianist and experimental musician Maike Zazie releases Fragmente on 7K!, an imprint created as part of !K7 to home their neo-classical listing of musicians, which includes the likes of Luca D’Alberto and Martyn Heyne. Fragmente, already released previously as a limited run of fifty cassettes, all of which are now long out of stock on the artist’s bandcamp, demonstrates Zazie’s talent in the realms of sonic literature, a practice that the musician cites as useful to her intent to convey stories or narrative through sound. The unusual piano composition on ‘Mädchen Vom Anderen Stern’ is gentle at times, a blank canvas for Zazie to stretch her voice across, while at others it seems to conduct and construct the narrative in its own right.