The Second Law: The Music of Paul Schütze, by Paul Schütze

The Second Law: The Music of Paul Schütze

by Paul Schütze

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Anthony Childs I would love for there to be a full catalog remaster/ reissue/ vinyl/ box set extravaganza (complete with gallery and site specific visual installations). This is but the tip of a very deep iceberg. Highly recommended. Favorite track: In The Absence of Angels.

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1.	Song Two 03:27	buy track
2.	Trace Militant 04:42	buy track
3.	Falling Bodies Alight 05:08	buy track
4.	In The Absence of Angels 06:04	buy track
5.	The Rapture of Metals 07:07	buy track
6.	The Velvet Horizon 06:13	buy track
7.	Smouldering Skies 03:48	buy track
8.	The Drowning 04:05	buy track

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"Conjures a strange world... A world with a desert at its heart but with glimpses of Oceana and Antarctica on the horizon... A beautifully concise and suggestive journey. Gorgeous."
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"Captures the breadth of Schütze's boundless creativity...Transcendental...Essential."
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Australian experimental / industrial / ambient artist Paul Schütze collects career highlights on The Second Law, a compilation of equally gritty and beautiful key works from the 80’s and 90’s, remastered and available for the first time on vinyl.

A boundless creative spirit, Paul Schütze has worked for over forty years as a musician, photographer, visual artist and perfumer. He has exhibited at institutions such as the Hayward Gallery, the V&A and Madrid’s Arco, held residencies at the Cité des Arts in Paris and has works in collections worldwide. He has collaborated with musicians from Jah Wobble to Toshinori Kondo, from Bill Laswell to David Toop, and worked both as a filmscore composer and music critic in print.

A new, remastered compilation of key works from Schütze’s catalogue, The Second Law, collates music from various periods and albums. Represented here are tracks from 1990’s The Annihilating Angel, an album of blissed-out fourth-world mystery; from the transcendent homage to traditional Indonesian gamelan music The Rapture of Metals (1993); from the ethereal, spiritual, Nino Rota-esque melancholy of 1991’s Regard: Music by Film. It is occasionally dark, industrial and begrimed; occasionally paradisiacal and breathtakingly elegant. There are works of celestial, astronomic grandeur alongside microscopically detailed miniatures. Empty, deserted spaces of man-made abandonment contrast with studies of ornate natural beauty.

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released November 12, 2021

Photography by Paul Schütze
Artwork by Jack Hardwicke
Remastered by Alyn Sclosa

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