The music of Black to Comm is as powerfully intoxicating as it is subtly unnerving. The solo project of shapeshifting German producer and sound artist Marc Richter, his mastery of sonic manipulation is matched only by his astounding clarity of vision. Following the acclaimed Seven Horses For Seven Kings released just a year ago, Oocyte Oil and Stolen Androgens applies Richter's wild imagination to an exploration of the human voice, standing as some of his most immediate and affecting music to date. Each of his phantasmagoric works is meticulously constructed from an omnivorous array of smudged samples and other sonic detritus, painstakingly collected by Richter from across the history of recorded music or his immediate environment and altered into beguiling new shapes. Sound sources seem tantalizingly familiar and yet often just out of reach, flickering at the edges of the subconscious.1 Gustav Metzger as Erwin Piscator, Gera, January 19152 Stolen Androgens3 Oocyte Oil4 Gepackte Zeit (für Hanne Darboven)5 Rataplan, Rataplan, Rataplan (Arms and Legs Flying in the Air)6 With Mary Mother and Bridges Four
