Resonator

Resonator was founded in 1997 by Anja Kreysing and Kai Niggemann as a sound art project. They started with sonic sculptures, silent film soundtracks and live audio/video works and developed their presentation style into full fledged live concerts, but without abandoning those initial concepts. Their first full length studio release “Red Room Diner” came in 2003, prompting invitations to the 2006 and 2008 “Creole-Festival für Weltmusik” in Dortmund, Germany among many other concerts. They enjoy performing live on stage as well as in more unusual locations and have worked extensively for theater/dance as well as film.

Their influences evidently range from the accordion based songwriting of eastern Europe and Jo Privat to experimental electronica from modern classical like Shostakovich to the meandering techno of Underworld, from kitsch to musique-concrète…

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On their second album the duo Resonator again relies on the combination of accordion and synthesizer: analog and digital elements, Nu-Folk made for dancing, sparkling electronics, gypsy-melancholia and kinetic beats packed in. These elements make “Trust” an instrumental poetry-book. Like its precursor “Red Room Diner”, this new interpretation of like-able manmachinemusic by Anja Kreysing (accordion) and Kai Niggemann (electronics) undeniably features some filmic qualities. Close your eyes and feast your ears!

TRUST was released on WAF80music in June 2011.