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J. Peter Schwalm / Markus Reuter: Aufbruch
By"Wall of sound" is a phrase used to describe the late producer Phil Spector's approach to recording (the 1963 single by Ronnie and the Ronettes, "Be My Baby," is an early example of this). Schwalm and Reuter make their own futuristic wall of sound, as dense as Jupiter's atmosphere, it sometimes seems; at other times as thin and vaporous as the "air" on Mars. Reuter is ofttimes making noise unlike anything you'll hear from a conventional guitar, and separating his contributions from keyboardist Schwalm is near impossible. A luminescent nebula spinning in spacein the fictional context of its existence within an atmospheremight sound like this.
The project was initially conceived as a long distance, swapping files affair. This was shelved for an "in the flesh" recording, with Reuter sculpting angular blocks of sound, while Schwalm painted on thick layers of synth sound color, in cinematic landscape creations without borders, warped by surreal "Twilight Zone" backdrops.
A beautiful and fortuitous oddity surfaces in the set's seventh and eighth tracks ("Lebewohl" and "Losgelost") with Sophie Tassignon's ghostly vocals softening the overall concept, evoking spectral apparitions looming in out of the mists of dark forests. The album closes out with the placid "Abschied," that features an oceanic ebb and flow of soundmade by a twenty-first century, two-man electro-orchestra.
Track Listing
Der Aufbruch; Von Anbeginn; Ruckzug; Abbau; Ein Riss; Der Iange Weg; Lebewohl; Losgelost; Abschied.
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
J. Peter Schwalm: Synths, Pianos, live treatments, electronic percussion, programming; Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars® AU8 and U8 Deluxe, Soundscapes, Electronics; Sophie Tassignon: Vocals on „Lebewohl“ and „Losgelöst.“
Album information
Title: Aufbruch | Year Released: 2021 | Record Label: RareNoiseRecords
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About J. Peter Schwalm
Instrument: Electronics
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