Krieg und Frieden (Music For Theatre)

Apparat, aka Berlin-based Sascha Ring, will release ‘Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre),’ an album of music based on Sebastian Hartmann’s theatre production of Tolstoy’s War & Peace. After time with Tolstoy’s original text, Ring spent four weeks in an old abandoned factory building, rehearsing with a 30-piece ensemble. Says Ring, “This is anything but conventional theatre. It’s a free space, where a bunch of freaks can go wild. It starts with the lights and stops with the actual actors. At night, we worked on the music in the empty hall. It was kind of magical.”

It is a fully realized album as Ring explains: “In the studio the material got another twist, became a real piece of music.

For Apparat, experiments in sound are strongly linked to exploring emotions. Over the course of seven album releases he has developed a multifarious, emotional universe. In 2010 he founded the Apparat Band and opened himself to a new sonic cosmos that culminated into ‘The Devil’s Walk’ (2010), his first release on Mute and one that he awed Australian fans with during a 2011 tour.