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Glow by Peter Gall
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Album Title: Drum Seeds
Label: Compost Records
Released: 2026
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About the Album
'Glow' is the 1st teaser single announcing the forthcoming album “Drum Seeds” by German drummer Peter Gall, to be released on 4th of September 2026 via Compost Records.
Peter Gall, who won the 2025 German Jazz Award for his last album “Love Avatar”, now presents his new single “Glow”. Driving drums and percussion interlock with pure flow beneath cascading electronic washes and a beautifully textured, mantra-like synth hymn. This is an emotional slow burn, with powerful and energetic ambient vibes.
About the album DRUM SEEDS
The new solo album by drummer and producer Peter Gall is much more than just a drum statement. LOVE AVATAR was already a success story: Recorded with top musicians from the European jazz scene, this opus-like work garnered rave reviews, led to successful tours and performances at renowned jazz festivals, and won the German Jazz Award for “Album of the Year” in 2025.
Instead of repeating a tried-and-true musical formula, Peter Gall is now venturing down entirely new paths: *DRUM SEEDS* is no ordinary, predictable album. It’s certainly not a classic jazz album. Produced entirely on his own, it naturally contains plenty of jazz—thanks to Peter Gall’s deep roots in this music—but just as much nonconformity. Drum beats are the album’s theme—and they come across as wild, raw, and brash, yet also embracing and trance-like.
The groundwork was actually laid by Compost label head Michael Reinboth: He had long wanted to produce a pure drum album with Peter Gall. So they met at Jan Krause’s (Beanfield) studio, where Peter Gall had also recorded numerous albums for the Compost universe with the spiritual jazz supergroup WEB WEB. In this familiar atmosphere, hours of material emerged—ranging from beats and grooves to layered drumkits and, in some cases, orchestral drum-and-percussion arrangements.
On DRUM SEEDS, Gall’s drumming is more prominent than on any of the roughly 50 albums the 42-year-old has recorded to date for various bands and artists. Nevertheless, he remains averse to sheer, virtuoso show- off drumming. “For me, it’s more about the feeling and the story a simple groove can tell,” he says. Peter Gall’s love for vintage analog synthesizers then derailed the original plan to let only the drums take center stage on the album.
And suddenly, the mantric beats evolved into partly song-like tracks with immersive sound collages that evoke associations: with the ambient works of Aphex Twin, the dancefloor bangers of Caribou, the jazz of the ’60s and ’70s, with The Streets, Boards of Canada, the soundtracks of David Lynch or Blade Runner, but also, time and again, to Gall’s earlier jazz albums— with compelling melodies, profound harmonies, and an imaginative, spiritual atmosphere. The distinctive, characterful grooves with their powerful pull, however, remain the major narrative element of this kaleidoscopic record.
Tracks
A1 / 1. Groove Receiver (6:08) A2 / 2. Super Truth (2:02) A3 / 3. Prophet Juno (5:04) A4 / 4. You And Me (4:48) A5 / 5. It Is Happening Again (3:50) B1 / 6. Core (3:29) B2 / 7. Hello Future Us (5:19) B3 / 8. Seeds (1:49) B4 / 9. Glow (3:11) B5 / 10. Zombie Satellite (2:05) B6 / 11. Disco Orbit (1:42) B7 / 12. Love Lost Bits (4:33)
Personnel
Peter Gall
drumsDate featured
January 1, 2027
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