SONIC SERMON


"We always play in Churches" intones Blixa Bargeld, his dry delivery booming empity off ornate stonework. Alva Noto aka. Carsten Nicolai his partner for this Wundergrund Festival smiles behind his laptop (...) Bargeld howls into his mic and Alva Noto amplifies and sharpens the sound (...) The faces concealed in the grotesque carvings above the altar columns seem suddenly Kubrickian: Frozen spectators of some unspeakable horror (...) Bargeld and Nicolai's collaboration is riveting throughout..." (review by Sam Davies).