In actual fact, Marc Richter is not really a musician at all. Not in the sense of, oh, he just twiddles a few knobs, he can’t do anything anyway. But in the sense of him painting with sound, making sound collages and creating spaces with sounds. The releases under his pseudonym Black To Comm sound like spatial installations set in motion, his live performances are like synaesthetic happenings. The impression of Marc Richter as a psychedelic sound painter is reinforced by the equally unusual and humorous designs that usually adorn his records. On his own label Dekorder, too, he dedicates himself to experimental sounds and their species-appropriate presentation. As part of the hybrid vinyl series, in which acts like Pye Corner Audio and Experimental Audio Research already have releases, the first Black To Comm release since 2012, the EP »Providence«, now appears. On it, Richter plays to his strengths for around 14 ½ minutes, effortlessly assembling a floating soundscape in which the recourse to common drone and noise tropes is skeletonised by achingly beautiful string loops, shimmering percussion elements and massive kicks. As is so often the case with Marc Richter’s work, »Providence« is far more than the sum of its individual sounds; rather, the sound architect once again creates a colourfully decorated sound garden that is illuminated by all kinds of will-o’-the-wisps. Here, too, the presentation matches the content. The 12″, on the one side in regular black vinyl, on the other as a picture disc, is strictly limited and a repressing, as with every other release in the series, is not planned. As if the music from Black To Comm didn’t have enough rarity value already.
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