Achim Wollscheid, Airs (CD)

Around the same time that this CD was recorded (1999), I saw an Achim Wollscheid "performance" where he hung microphones over the liquor bottles at a club and amplified the results. This CD is slightly less daring/conceptual—the terse liner notes indicate that it involves playing many CDs and cassettes at a radio station at the same time. It's a fascinating, dense cloud of sound that still manages to capture some of Wollscheid's odd creative voice. Most of the sources are pretty abstract music to begin with, though spoken voices (mostly in German) peek through on rare occasions.