The International Nothing - The Dark Side of Success (2014)

The International Nothing is a psycho-acoustic clarinet duo from Berlin. Starting out in 2000 Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke collectively compose multilayered sound sculptures using multiphonics, beat frequencies and difference tones as an integral part of their unique language. The duo released three albums on the Japanese Ftarri Label and played concerts all over Europe and North America.

"The duo’s progression from release to release is subtle, but with The Dark Side Of Success there’s a confident warmth in the music, an almost romantic richness heard in the way the pieces unravel, still with clarity and simplicity, but an increasingly intricate, fragile structure. Such focused, concentrated collaborations are necessarily rare in improvised music, and it’s heartening to hear two skilled musicians create music of such depth and intense beauty."
Richard Pinnell, THE WIRE