Messages, by Joerg Dankert

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2.	Fading contact 04:21	buy track
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4.	Urgent utility message 03:38	buy track
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The story of this album is both old and up to date, because with the Ukraine war on my doorstep I rediscovered an old hobby, listening to shortwave. There you can always hear radio, morse and data traffic from various military and their services.

As a 10-year-old boy, I always disappeared into an adjoining room when I was visiting my grandmother. There was an old tube radio. I think it was a nordmende. With this radio you could hear a lot of exotic music and strange noises when you cranked the transmit button. I was completely mesmerized and could listen for hours. Sometimes there were even voices, and I learned that was radio traffic.

Years later, these listening experiences even became important professionally, because I got an offer to work in the army in electronic warfare. During the Cold War and Mr. Rust's flight to Red Square in Moscow, I cleared up radio communications and messages.

In my free time I listened to the world with a world radio. There was a lot going on on shortwave in the 1980s. Not only military radio and Morse code traffic, but also countless international radio stations from all continents. There you could hear synthesizer music from France, England and the Soviet Union.

Years later, on the night of the attack on Baghdad, radio traffic exploded, and by the time the missiles landed, the world knew what had happened 30 minutes before CNN. Radio amateurs had reported the attacks.

In the course of the years, however, in the course of technological development, the shortwave lost massively in importance. More and more stations stopped operating and more and more services switched to satellite.

A form of shortwave messages still exists today. Number transmitters that send out coded messages in different languages. There used to be countless of them and some with interesting identifiers, such as melodies and tone sequences. Yes, they have become fewer, but they are still there.

Just as the world's militaries use certain radio frequencies to maintain a chance of shortwave communication in the event the satellites fail or are shot down.

In addition to voice radio traffic, there are countless other techniques that are used. Telex, Morse code, fax, ... and encrypted digital data transfer systems send different noises, sounds and messages into the ether.

I heard some of the news broadcast during the Ukraine war, recorded it and incorporated it into the music. Some melodies and sounds are the result of inspiration from listening. It's unclear what the content of the messages is, since the code hasn't been cracked -- at least nobody has said so publicly -- but personal messages are being sent to real spies or people acting for a particular country.

On a few frequencies one knows that it is about the communication of strategically important units. Be it transport units or bomber forces with nuclear weapon systems. May they never be active and used in real-time, for then our world would perish.

The training of this communication on these fixed frequencies can be heard every day. The messages embedded in the album are all real messages. In the last piece, a radio signal can be heard, which the Ukrainians used to overlay Russian radio traffic and thus disrupt it.

The songs were created between March and November 2022, whereby the shortwave recordings were either recorded live by me and my shortwave radio or via the digital shortwave receiver of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, which is accessible to everyone on the Internet.

I designed and drew the cover of "Messages". If you look closely, you can see the gears of the Enigma encryption machine and antennas of all kinds.

All songs were composed by me, recorded under Cubase Artist 12, mixed and mastered. All instruments and effects are from Steinberg (Halion, Padshop, Retrologue). Also used were: Valhalla Supermassive, Blackhole from Eventide and the Quadra, the Dreamsynth and the Elka-X from Cherry Audio.

Hardware used: Notebook from da-x.de, Akai Midimix, MPK mini, LPK 24, M-Audio Keystation 61, Axiom mini, Nektar S49, Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd generation, Beyerdynamic DT 770 80 Ohm Pro headphones and Presonus speakers.

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released November 26, 2022

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Joerg Dankert Tarmstedt, Germany

Joerg Dankert is a composer, musician, recording artist and fan of Berlin School music since early seventies. In 2021 he published his first album at bandcamp.

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Strange new worlds

Jul 2023
Short ones

Mar 2023
Messages

Nov 2022
Between the meantime

Jul 2022
Fragments of war

Apr 2022
Beyond

Oct 2021
Restore faith

Jul 2021
First

Jun 2021
Home Base

Apr 2021

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