The Host of Seraphim

from 'Systeme' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den381
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/bersarinquartett

Finally the 5th album of the imaginary German quartet - as always via Denovali. Although the title "Systeme" suggests a perhaps rather distant-cool album, it is the most personal and concentrated soundtrack so far created by Thomas Bücker from Münster in his "E-Smog-Playground" studio. In 2008, the quartet still flirted with cyrillic-mysterious melancholy and red wine-swilling trakl melancholy. 15 years and four albums later, it seems almost cynical to simply continue at this point. Because: late modernity delivers its very own complex tragedies - in real time.

This feeling of "Something's not right here" runs like a thread through the entire new album. While it still sounds popularly symphonic here and there, there are also many soundscapes that have an observing, almost unmasking effect. Microtonal shifts, polyrhythmic structures, tempo fluctuations and sound aesthetics torn out of context create a fragile, unpredictable foundation - as if Talk Talk, Tim Hecker and Skrillex were making music together and challenging our tolerance for ambiguity. Typical of the Bersarin Quartet: sparks of optimism shimmer through everything. However, sitting back and enjoying doesn't really want to work - necessarily. Because that makes it exciting without freezing in escapism - fortunately.

Systeme

Bersarin Quartett - Autopoesie

Beneath the Ashen Sky

Era - Enae Volare Mezzo

Era - Divano

YTmp3.net

Farewell of Slavianka (instrumental)

6 - Вірність І Честь

from 'Collection' [3xCD|4xLP BOX|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den287
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/dictaphone

The first 4 Dictaphone releases now available as a very limited Boxset with a wonderful new timeless design. The vinyl edition is also available as limited single LPs.

Already formed in the late nineties in Berlin, Dictaphone was born by Brussels-bred multi-instrumentalist Oliver Doerell. In 2000 Oliver Doerell found a partner in Berlin's Roger Döring, who shares Doerell's love for the Brussels-based music of the eighties. In the following years the duo and several guest musicians (e.g. Stephan Wöhrmann (SWOD) , Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) & more) released the critically highly acclaimed "m.= addiction" (2002), the "Nacht" EP (2004) and "Vertigo II" (2006) via the City Centres Offices label of Thaddeus Herrmann and Shlom Sviri (Boomkat, Modern Love). In 2009 the violin player Alex Stolze joined the band. During their two decades of existence Dictaphone played shows in more than 20 countries with festival appearances at Mutek, Transmediale, Unsound, Benicassim & more. Their latest release "Poems from a rooftop" from 2012 came as a very limited edition through the Berlin-based boutique label Sonic Pieces. In 2017 the band released the long awaited third album "APR 70" on denovali. The label now also offers a reissue of the trio's past repertoire.

Dictaphone never make music for the sake of it, they always want to create something which was missing before. And they did.

Praise for Dictaphone:

"minimalistic and subliminal elegancy" (ARTE)

"timeless, unusual & beautiful" (Colin Newman)

"Dictaphones gives warmth to the concept, your thoughts a body and atmosphere to the music" (Spex)

"This is the music to fall in love with over many evenings, each subsequent rotation capturing another moment of time to be recalled in the future. Highly recommended" (Headphone Commute)

"When played from a rooftop, this music may be as quiet as a poem, but it carries the power of a manifesto." (A Closer Listen)

Poems From a Rooftop

Dictaphone - The Conversation

Only a week before the official release of 'No Land Called Home', a free, exclusive mix for the exceptional US-based online magazine Headphone Commute is now available at: http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2010/11/01/subheim-headphone-commute-mix/

01 Subheim – Intro
02 Subheim – Take Me Back [EO3, Tympanik Audio 2008]
03 Subheim – Dunes – [No Land Called Home, Ad Noiseam 2010]
04 Subheim – Untitled – [Unreleased]
05 The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Lead Squid [Here Be Dragons, Ad Noiseam]
06 Bersarin Quartett – Mehr Als Alles Andere [Bersarin Quartett, Lidar 2010]
07 Subheim – Between Fear and Love [No Land Called Home, Ad Noiseam 2010]
08 Max Richter – Infra 7 [Infra, Fat Cat 2010]
09 Ben Lukas Boysen – Deadweight [Unreleased]
10 Subheim – Streets [No Land Called Home, Ad Noiseam 2010]
11 Subheim – Dusk [No Land Called Home, Ad Noiseam 2010]
12 Subheim – December [No Land Called Home, Ad Noiseam 2010]
13 Subheim – Hush [Approach, Tympanik Audio 2008]
14 Eraldo Bernocchi & Blackfilm – Mistakes Pt.2 [Along The Corridors, Vital 2009]
15 SE – Mimikry (Subheim remix) [L36, Tympanik Audio 2010]
16 Access to Arasaka – Sys.argv[1_] [void(), Tympanik Audio 2010]
17 Subheim – The Cold-Hearted Sea [No Land Called Home, Ad Noiseam 2010]
18 Mobthrow – Desert City Rising – [Unreleased, Ad Noiseam 2010]

Subheim mix for Headphone Commute

Rarefied & Live

Even Flow

4. 1000 BLUNTS

6 - Вірність І Честь

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