Paul Haslinger N1-with Sound touches  Truth ,a Place ,Elements in its Pure State-

One of my favorite composer. Pionner of electro for films

absolutely enjoy Paul's work. soundtrack to ride 2018 , absolutely great on the mind

from 'Symmetrie und Wahnsinn' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den370
available on all formats at https://denovali.com/sanktotten/

After the 2020 album "Lieder Für Geometrische Stunden", Sankt Otten finally make us happy again with a new release at the beginning of 2022. "Symmetrie Und Wahnsinn" (Symmetry and madness) fits here skillfully, both creatively and musically, in an album series with geometric context.

The album starts unusually buoyant with "Hymne Der Melancholischen Programmierer" (Hymn for sentimental programmers). A Kraut-Pop pearl, which could go on forever with its Motorik swing and with its catchy melody the track doesn't come across as melancholic as the song title predicts. You have to listen twice to not succumb to the illusion that it was composed in Düsseldorf at the end of the seventies. Here (and on the track "Sei Symmetrisch Zu Mir"), Sankt Otten were supported in the studio by drummer friend DIRK PELLMANN.

The drum machine in rumbling funky mode. "Die Glücklichen Unglücklichen", the secret hit of the album? They bend the beat into geometric shapes, let the bass play in circles and cover the song with ghostly choirs. The echo of a spinett-like sound overlays the sound, spitting out a deceptively cuddly dream world.

The 10 minute long "Die Ordnung Des Lärms" could be called an Ambient-Kraut symphony without hesitation. An enormous swelling to ecstasy, a guitar sings distantly in the background. Silence. Synthetic strings pave the way and are supported by choirs. A crackle that suggests a rhythm until it is taken over by a drum computer in the main part of the track. Bombastic mountains of synthesizers pile up and yet a catchy melody finds its way through this mishmash of hypnotic electronics. Fourth movement - Kosmische-choirs in suspension over a bass synth and an Ebow guitar. Is this already Prog-Rock? The question doesn't arise, in the end everything merges into reverb.

"Luftspiegelung Der Sentimentalitäten" begins cautiously with a gentle sequence and a discreet kick drum. The mini-Moog sounds like a guitar. Anyway. A surface floats by and returns, layers and shapes build up. At last, everything melts into perfect harmony with a plaintive-sounding synth. This track was composed as a stripped back reprise of the first track from the last album "Sentimentale Sequenzen".

A hypnotic Motorik-beat of an 808 that encourages head nodding and could almost be danceable. True to style with warm analog 80s electronic sounds and a loose echo guitar. This is "Angekommen In Der letzten Reihe". Man and machine hand in hand as a homogeneous musical unit and the connection of tradition and vision.

Sankt Otten like images of infinity. In the religious sense of meditative mantras, or also in the mathematical sense of an elongated curve that eventually returns to its starting point. "Bis Das Helle Licht Uns Holt" goes exactly in this direction with its classical use of sequencers and a sound carpet of choirs. Sound worlds that, through a clever repetitiveness, barely noticeably guard the constant changes in the compositional mesh like a secret and only reveal what is to be discovered by listening closely and letting it be seen. Such a thing is probably called Berlin School?

The Osnabrück duo Sankt Otten, founded in 1999, has been releasing on Denovali since 2009. With their now 12th album they give us again a gem of timeless instrumental music. The holy trinity of Krautrock, Ambient and contemporary Electronics, but always stylistically confident and unmistakable Sankt Otten.

For the mastering New York based RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI could be won. Also with the cover layout again good taste is proven. As part two of a cover series, this extraordinary die-cut cover artwork was again created by designer DANIEL CASTREJÓN. The vinyl version comes in a die-cut cover (in a limited transparent edition), the CD in an elegant cardboard slipcase.

Symmetrie und Wahnsinn

Luftspiegelung der Sentimentalitäten

Sankt Otten - Luftspiegelung der Sentimentalitäten

from 'Heavy Light' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den368
available on all formats at denovali.com/orsonhentschel

Three years after his last studio album, Orson Hentschel returns with a multi-outputted visual album. Heavy Light, the title of his fourth album project, consists of three parts - a 3-channel film installation, a visual live-performance and the album itself. Hentschel expands the format of the conventional album to an audiovisual experience by merging elements of film, dance and music in a synthesis of arts. The project evolved in the time of Corona, which first affected him visually when the city (Berlin) turned into a ghost town during the first lockdown. Light became the most vibrant element in the city, which influenced both picture and sound. Metallic, sometimes harsh and electrifying, surroundings of the urban life are landscaped into eclectic pulses.

Heavy Light

Antenna Window

Orson Hentschel - Antenna Window

Moonlit Planetarium

Subway

Our first track we made and built during the sjönevad festival in 2014.
feel welcome to download it, take and handle with care please.

Martin & Marcel

Sjoenevad Lake

Wires Crossing Land

Full stream of 'Just Passing Through' by The Greatest Hoax. Taken from the album 'Expiration Compositions' forthcoming on Serein (June 23rd, 2017). The album will be out on CD, Vinyl and digital formats.

Just Passing Through was first premiered by Cyclic Defrost on May 30th, 2017.

“Expiration Composition is not just an album about death; it reflects a sense of happiness for one’s life. The subject is often heavy, but my intention is to encourage listeners to appreciate their lives knowing they are finite.” – Taylor Jordan (The Greatest Hoax)

Expiration Compositions

The Greatest Hoax - Just Passing Through

Paul Haslinger - If You Knew Him As I Did

taken from upcoming DR-49 : Sven Laux - Paper Streets
out on November 3rd, 2017
Pre-order : dronarivm.bandcamp.com

Sven Laux’s “Paper Streets” is a deeply intimate and vulnerable affair. Released on the Russian label Dronarivm, Sven paints minimal landscapes with watercolors in shades of violin, cello & piano; stripped bare & soaked in memory. 

The artist’s works bares a sense of detachment & reflection that usually occurs with the passing of time. Forlorn irony shows itself as it reminds you what feels like to fall in love for the first time, while conjuring ghosts from the last time you shared a gaze. 

A departure from the Sven’s earlier work, “Paper Streets” is an organic, neo-classical journey heard through a cinematic lens. Orchestral notes surge like tides and resonate like heartache. Nostalgia echoes and dissolves with a disarming vulnerability.

Pre-order CD

TRACK PREMIERE : SVEN LAUX - There's Still Hope

Maarten van der Vleuten & Grey Lotus - I Break The Waves (Somfay Remix)

12 June 2018

While the summer nights in the taiga is the realm of the White’s Thrush, the dawn is owned by other songbirds. In the intense and diverse choir of bird voices in the early morning hour one might identify Red-flanked Bluetail, Garden, Blyth’s Reed, Willow, Arctic and Greenish warbler, Oriental Cuckoo, Black Woodpecker, Willow and Coal Tit, and Olive-backed Pipit. 

Eastern foothill of the northern Ural Mountains, Russia (60.07N/59.63E)

SD MixPre-3, Primos

Dawn choir, Northern Ural Mountains

Part of the EP 'In Dreams' ↠ https://ludvigcimbrelius.bandcamp.com/album/in-dreams 

Written and recorded by Ludvig Cimbrelius in the Spring of 2019

Released by Sonder House – www.thesonderhouse.com

Artwork by Ludvig Cimbrelius
Design by Matt C. White – www.mattcwhitecreative.com
Mastering by Trevor Case – www.casemastering.com

Special thanks to Nicola Taylor for drawing the leaves

Paul Haslinger - If You Knew Him As I Did

Paul Haslinger

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