Drekka

Working under the name DREKKA since 1996, composer Mkl Anderson has toured, traveled, and collaborated extensively; building a very personal archive of sound that dates back to the mid-1980's. With a large body of work on labels such as Dais, Auris Apothecary, Morc, Silber, and Bluesanct, Anderson has also recorded, toured as a member of Turn Pale, Jessica Bailiff, In Gowan Ring, Stone Breath, Annelies Monseré, Rivulets, and Dylan Ettinger. DREKKA owes something to the soundscapes and non-linear impressionism of Cindytalk or COIL, the industrial gravity of Einstürzende Neubauten or Hafler Trio, and the cinematic collaborations of Edward Artemiev/Andrei Tarkovsky or Simon Fisher Turner/Derek Jarman. But his work is very apparently unique and personal. DREKKA has explored early industrial tape culture, fragile bedroom noise-folk, and expansive cinematic textures, touching on themes of silence, memory, and forgetfulness. Rather than obscure himself, as is often the effect of experimental music, DREKKA functions as a direct line into Anderson's mind and his tenuous cache of memories, its fragility clearly on display rather than obfuscated by poetic abstractions. DREKKA unequivocally occupies and deals in those dark spaces which comprise the tenuous province of memory and dreams; the real ghosts of time and sound.