SOGAR

Jürgen Heckel, also known as Sogar, was born in Nuremberg in 1970 and has been living in Paris for 13 years. He started playing music when he was 19 and became part of several groups as a guitarist. He then got interested in creating and processing sound in unconventional ways. Thus Jürgen manipulates accidental sounds to create light and fragile melodic textures. The sources of these arrangements are guitars as well as sounds from mixing consoles, amplifiers, cables or other aural finds. These sounds are then reworked on a computer to become a music made of cracklings, and rich melodic oscillations exploring the extremes of the sound spectrum by associating acoustic technique and software.
This music call attention by the constant wish to escape from any attempt of qualification or any act of nomination. Extremely dense and abstract as much as it becomes impossible to apply a classical epithet like “melancholic”, “sad”, “happy”, “beautiful”, etc, the music of Sogar is no less than a source of a new musical grammar. Without any conceptual thoughts his music is slightly but constantly transforming to become a sensitive translation of a state of mind nurtured by his subconscious.
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D I S C O G R A P H Y
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BASAL 12k - USA 2001
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STENGEL List - France 2002
APIKAL.BLEND 12k - USA 2003
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EEL & COFFEE (Live in Japan) Mr.Mutt - Italy 2003
D I V E R S
12k term.01
3 Tracks Recorded Live at Batofar, Paris, France. October 18th 2001
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Bau2
on The Noise & The City --- 2CD moulin008 Autres Directions 2004
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Compiler
Soundtracks for images --- TU M'P3 2002
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Plastic Bird Watcher (.swf file)
Soundtracks for images --- TU M'P3 2002
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