Marco Shuttle's third album, Cobalt Desert Oasis, features a varied collection of music recorded across a two year period. Often traveling to remote destinations, Marco would come back to Berlin with field recordings, images, and other inspirations to process in his studio and turn into sound.

The theme of the journey turns into a something more abstract than a travel diary, where environmental sounds blend in with modular synthesis, drum machines, effects and analog oscillators resulting in a cinematic listening experience where psychedelia, ritualism, and mysticism weave together in a sort of alien soundscape - that as the title of the album suggests, is reminiscent of a parallel utopian world.

The album is rich in complex rhythmics, and more than in any of his previous work, has strong acoustic elements. Amongst other percussion instruments, Marco used the Tombak, a traditional Persian hand drum capable of reaching a very wide range of frequencies - from deep round subby toms, to high pitched sharp rimshots, throughout the record.

Marco Shuttle is certainly not new to these sort of elements, but in Cobalt Desert Oasis he brings the environmental element of his sound into the forefront in a way that takes the listener into a hazy expanse where it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the machine elements from the natural - and where the music almost becomes a visual experience, which relates to Marco's own photography used throughout the cover and insert images.

Written and Produced by Marco Sartorelli
Mastered by Neel @ Enisslab
Design by Josh Abramovici
Photography by Marco Sartorelli 

'Acrobat' is taken from Marco Shuttle's 'Cobalt Desert Oasis' LP
PREORDER: Vinyl 2x12"/Digital: https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-desert-oasis
Out October 15th, 2021

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https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-desert-oasis

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Marco Shuttle - Acrobat [INC-012]

From 'HomeSoon', the forthcoming EP by Cousin.

Out on Mood Hut Records Nov 17th 2023.
Vinyl distribution by Rubadub.
Smartlink: https://moodhut.ffm.to/homesoon

Cousin - 3 X A Charm

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Grandbrothers - Prologue(Djrum remix)

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Djrum 'Plead With Me'

Taken from the Broken Glass Arch EP
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Djrum - Showreel Pt2

Taken from the Broken Glass Arch EP
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Djrum  - Broken Glass Arch

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Tension

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Djrum - Broken Glass Arch

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