Author: harald

First released on vinyl by the SEALT label in 2014, producer Nick Zavriev returns with three additional tracks for the first-ever CD release on Carpe Sonum.

Filled with wistful synthlines and nostalgic melodies throughout, Geek Mythology is perfect for late evening meditative trips through sentimental spaces. Sure to appeal to fans of space music, Berlin School, and FAX +49-69/450464.

The fifth installment in the series that showcases the different side of Thomas with his big influences of the 60s,70s, Science Fiction and anything obscure.

New album from David, inspired by Conrad Schnitzler.

Dark ambient…description forthcoming.

Lorenzo Montanà and Mick Chilllage are practically veterans across electronica’s many-splendored plains these days, as both artists have been virtually inescapable these past few years. Both FAX alumni, with additional releases scattered across a worldwide range of labels, it was almost inevitable that the two should someday join forces. Deviazioni Cosmiche is the result–eight tracks of gripping, lovely starcrush and void descent, where both artists seamlessly merge their diverse intelligentsia to yield a powerful tour de force of synth structure.

Since each musician’s back catalog has painted vivid pictures of brusque environments and alien topographies, this collaboration is no different, but what makes it a crowning achievement in their respective pantheons is the sheer dazzling display of sounds on hand. From the post-Vangelis be-bop of “Vinctos Temporis” to the spectral misty mountain climes of “Microsopic+Mechanisms+Moon”, the end result is a wonder to behold, full of towering peaks and abyssal valleys, hesitant percolations and demonstrative beatstorms. Begging for repeated listenings and multiple exposures, this one might well go down as a future classic of its form.

Following a direct path onwards from the three volumes of Crows-an-Wra with Ishq, within that same world but only barely, a chance in your journey to take a breath after so much ground covered, Alien is a warm morning album for sitting silently with friends smiling as last night still echoes faintly, lingering and fading equally.

Alien gently surrounds, holds you, oddly familiar, alien. Those echoes become like characters seen in the clouds of a vast sky, an echo from back when they Let The Power Fall, an echo from that last trip, echoes of itself, looping, shimmering, dreaming.

Mick Chillage could very well be the hardest working man in electronica, taking the reins of that position from the late Pete Namlook. What is more startling about the seemingly large quantity of work available from him in the past few years (and upcoming as well) is the high level of quality control he maintains throughout; nary a note is ill-placed, misaligned, or wasted. Chillage’s working methods are efficient to say the least, exemplary to say the most; the consummate musician, he’s not one to sit still or allow his muse to stagnate, equally at home channelling any number of sub-genres, be it fleet electro or galvanizingly intense atmospherica.

His latest for Carpe Sonum after the wonderful Saudade release finds the erstwhile sonic frontiersman alternating a beautifully involving series of tracks that deftly straddle spheres both inner and outer. (M)odes paints Chillage as introspective, questing, soul-searching; the plaintive piano chords and twinkling synths of “Nico’s Gate” suggest ancient rituals of deep contemplation, a re-examining of spiritualism as much as a vault heavenwards across the stars. The paragon of beauty that is “Midnight Mist” illustrates precisely what Chillage does best, digging down into the circuitboards of his trusty synths to exact the revealing science of gods. It’s at once splendorous and awe-inspiring to behold, (M)odes of (in)alienation as gripping as they come.