AICHER
A set of experimental, guitar-based, and industrial sounds from AICHER.
For the past two decades, Andrews has been active in exploring amplified guitar music with the experimental post-punk group MY DISCO, and as a recent collaborator with Karl O’Connor (Regis, Sandwell District) and Boris Wilsdorf (Einstürzende Neubauten) as EROS.
His recent work, as AICHER, focuses on repurposing the incidentals within spatial recordings. Drawing on his vast catalogue of recorded material, he translates them into compositions of detailed feedback expression, seasick percussive roil and subharmonic frequencies. The results are a collection of sonic movements, an assemblage of unsettling dissonance, that remain on the wire.
“Defensive Acoustics”, his debut album under the AICHER moniker, is a collection of recordings
channeling a performance presented alongside his close collaborator R. Rebeiro in the worn basement of the Ishiguro Building, an aged and abandoned pharmaceutical store in Kanazawa, Japan. The cavernous
reverberation, structural deterioration, and the pressure of sound at the brink, is at the essence of the recording. The album is released in an edition of 300, on the honourable Downwards Records of Birmingham, England.
Andrews has performed at notable festivals including — Berlin Atonal, Dark Mofo, Unsound, Le Guess Who?, Roadburn, Donau, Supersonic, Avant Arts etc. — as well as numerous headlining tours of Europe and the British Isles, North America, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Australia.
As a contributor, he has worked with Ben Frost, on his 2024 album “Scope Neglect” (Mute Records) and Regis, on his 2020 album “Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss” (Downwards Records).