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Using the name RoSch, Frank Rothe and Mario Schönwälder again take flight into the electronic universe. Exploring the contours of the celestial realm their 11.000 Lightyears (88:30) draws us away from the currents of our time and place, to be among the hidden figures and cosmic codes that occupy the space between stars. Conjuring a world of brain murmurs and free floating thoughts this album sounds like two musicians inhabiting one dream. Teeming with light, life and motion their reality exists only in their music. The five tracks, including one extended remix, could lure an angel from its paradise. In mannered movement through otherworldly levels, textures and moods these realizations become enlivened by a mysterious atmosphere. Programmed planetary tones provide moody accompaniment to the neural activity of the listener, while obediently paced patterns pulse and echo in a lulling mechanical stability. Encounters with such quiet drama and dark imaginings excite the misty reality between sleep and wakefulness. Yet, it is through the delicate blending of subtle synthesizer sounds and twinkling modulated effects with an impulse-powered sequencer line above those deep, somber chords that we may sense the pull of whatever it is we are heading toward - some 11.000 Lightyears away.
- Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END 17 April 2025 |
