Reminding me very strongly of fellow German Thomas Koner's near-perfect 'La Barca', this exercise in sound art crossed with (often) acoustic ambience is hugely effective. The field recordings of street noise, voices and the surrounding areas mix closely with the synth drones as the other instruments (guitars, melodica, accordion, harmonium, piano, clarinet, flute, horn, sax, tuba, percussion) weave in and out of the mix. Add to this the impressive array of non traditional instruments (we have three separate people playing window shades on here - as well as bricks, fire and 'concrete sounds') and the result is a spell-bindingly hypnotic mix of the familiar and the utterly unpredictable.
Other reviews have likened this to some Nurse With Wound releases but i feel that's an unfair comparison as this album often feels far more musically constructed than the average NWW and this musicality mixing with the minutes of sounds is what gives it its dichotomous strength.
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