Jazz Articles about Michael Renkel

Michael Renkel: Errorkoerper III

by John Eyles
July 30, 2006

Lest anyone think that the use of electric guitar, effects processor and laptop prescribes a particular type of sound or a particular way of playing, here is Michael Renkel to disabuse them of the notion; there are as many ways and sounds as there are players.

Renkel used his guitar as a source of non-traditional guitar sounds--including using e-bow and percussive techniques--which were then sent to an effects processor and thence to two laptops. We need not get too bogged ...

Michael Renkel: Activity Centre Mowen and Moos Remix

by John Eyles
October 1, 2001

Hmm, this is an oddity. The duo of guitarist Michael Renkel and drummer Burkhard Beins call themselves Activity Centre. Mowen & Moos was their double CD (one CD called Mowen, the other Moos ) released on 2:13 records in 1999. You are unlikely to have heard it (or even seen it) as it was released in an issue of only 150 copies, each with individual cover art by Fehmi Baumbach; an instant collector's item. Now this (single) CD is Renkel's ...