Into each life some rain must fall. When it fell outside Florian Wittenburg’s window, he made this small piece out of it. Delivered in stark white, quality paper stock, it features no text other than author, title and the label’s contact information.It opens with the breath of a radiator before the spatter of a rain shower begins to drum on the windowpane, its timbre altered digitally. A ticking clock changes tempo several times before catching its own tail. Regenprasseln is a graceful, five-act playlet, just twenty-seven minutes long, on the little world of the everyday.
Housed in a similarly bold white package but pinstriped with grey, vertical lines and featuring a text in close print describing the premise of the piece, After the Rain by Eventless Plot (great name) seeks to explore the perceptual changes to a familiar landscape after the rain stops falling. While visual changes are plain to the eye, the trio attempts to create an impressionistic audio portrait of the nature of their chosen urban landscape after a downpour. The piece, not quite twice the length of Regenprasseln, is quietly led by a musing piano and fleeting vibraphone over a soft bed of organ drone which, for the brief moment it plays alone, is warm and comforting. Field recordings of tire treads rolling over wet pavement and breezes blowing raindrops from the treetops make the refreshed, post-downfall scene palpable.
Stephen Fruitman
Avant Music News 