So now it's Strings and Feedback.The title of Andrew Pekler's new album already discloses itsinstrumentation. It refers to his chosen field of action, it announces amethod and offers motif and imagination. On his two previous albums(released on the Scape label) Pekler led his listeners on a random walkthrough the clear and mysterious air of a metropolis at midnight. Therehe met with a form of jazz one may be familiar with from French films ofthe 1950s. He picked up this musicÇs narrative and re-told to thelistener by adding a lively tinge of digital contrasts. Those two albumsmay be taken as necessary starting points for him to arrive at StringsAnd Feedback.The ten tracks on this new album embark on an excursion into the directvicinity of sounds and into the inner life of the mixing desk. It ishere where sounds are organized, where they all must pass through, thatPekler develops his breathtaking signal flow. Calm and patient he opensup the material from the inside and self-confidently develops a musicconsisting of only very few essential elements.Strings and Feedback: Very lucid and rough. Inside his mixing console,Pekler confronts a few strings and piano samples (taken mostly fromMorton Feldman's work in the 1950s) with themselves, forcingunpredictable encounters, intensification and distortion. He inauguratesan interplay of reminiscences and unreliable fragments of a chapter inthe history of music which lies behind us. If Pekler on his previousalbums appeared as a minute observer who knows how to describe even themost delicate atmospheric conditions through music, then on Strings andFeedback he has become an intermediary between sound worlds.Similar to the imaginary circuit diagram on the album's cover, Pekler'spieces leave the safe and beaten tracks on which most specialists treadand instead create open-ended and yet to be discovered paths whichcannot be described through the logic of a manual. It may beunintentional that the cover design is reminiscent of the 1960ssituationist's visionary city maps, but it matches Pekler's approach tocreate a new topography by re-organizing existing sound material.On Strings And Feedback, Andrew Pekler brings into being an impressivemusic which manages to convince the listener not despite itsrenunciation of compositional variety, but because of it. Or, in thewords of Yoko Ono: Draw a map and get lost.(Stefan Schneider)Andrew Pekler: Short Biography\u002FDiscographyBorn December 14th, 1973 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, U.S.S.R.1980 Pekler family immigrates to the United States, settling first inPhiladelphia then relocating to Monterey, California in 1984.1995 relocation to Heidelberg, Germany for studies at university.1997-2000 first releases of music under the names of Sad Rockets(Source), Bergheim 34 (Klang Elektronik) and Mucus 2.2000 relocation to Berlin, release and tour for 3rd Sad Rockets albumTransition (Matador).2002- 2003 release of first album as Andrew Pekler Station To Station(Scape), concerts in Europe, N. America, Japan and Australia. 2004 release of album Nocturnes, False Dawns & Breakdowns (Scape). 2005 concerts in Europe, Russia and N.America, release of album Strings+ Feedback (Staubgold).