Bill Wells and Stefan Schneider

Actually what Bill Wells and Stefan Schneider are doing on their new album Pianotapes is chamber music. Wells plays fragile scales on the Bechstein grand piano, while Schneider records them on two old reel-to-reel tape machines and plays the recordings back at altered speeds. This real-time recording process is reflected in Well's piano playing, who replies with modulation and key changes, building the sounds and ideas into his improvisation, playing with them and developing them. Bill Wells is the Nestor of the Glasgow indie scene. The bassist, guitarrist and pianist has worked with the likes of The Pastels and the BMX Bandits as well as recording an album with Isobel Campbell, formerly singer/cellist in Belle and Sebastian. Wells has allways been interested in areas of the avant-garde that flourish on the bordeline between electronica,folk, jazz and new music. Stefan Schneider is part of the trio To Rococo Rot, has a solo project Mapstation, and works with Hans-Joachim Roedelius from Cluster. Schneider and Wells developed the idea for „Pianotapes" together and presented it live for the first time at the piano festival „Approximation" at Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf.

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