Angel
Angel is the collaborative project of Dirk Dresselhaus (commonly known as Schneider TM, releasing on City Slang/Mute) and Ilpo Väisänen (1/2 of Pan Sonic, signed to Blast First/Mute)
 Ilpo Väisänen, born 1963 in Kuopio (Finland), worked with Ultra 3, Sinø and Pan Sonic (latest releases: Piiri, Liimas, Joulu) met Dirk Dresselhaus, born 1970 in Bielefeld (Germany), whilst his project SchneiderTM (latest releases: Moist, Binokular (w/ kpt.michi.gan), SchneiderTM/Alc Levora Split ep, Zoomer), was supporting Pan Sonic on their European tour in 1999.
Since then they have played one show a year in Berlin and became something you could call ‘soulbrothers‘.
This album is a non edited live-recording and much more about direct communication, listening to what the other one does and reacting to it, rather than a ‘brain‘-piece, which is supposed to be intellectual or cool in attitude.
It is freeform-soulmusic, made with ilpo's selfmade analog-sythesizer (typewriter), cd-player and the most fucked up electric guitar dirk could find.
Musical influences like drone, ragga, industrial, surf- or noiserock come from the deepest parts of their hearts.
Sometimes this music could seem so grown up, so selfpossessed and assured. But sitting on their laps with it's head resting lightly against their chests, it feels like no weight at all.
As though it is still a baby, with all it's life still stretching out ahead of it, a life still waiting to find it's shape.
It stirred in it's sleep as they heard an ice-cream van ringing it's bell somewhere in the endless streets of berlin or barcelona.
More than any birdsong or blooming bud, this is the sign that the days of cold and dark are finally drawing to a close.
Spring must be coming soon, because the ding-dong man is out there somewhere.
