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Al Pari Quartet

Stephan Thelen: Of Sonar, Fractals And Interactive Complexity

by Mike Jacobs
June 5, 2023

If you have been at all aware of the two-decade-old movement known as Swiss Minimalism, you've likely seen Stephan Thelen's name crop up. Lately, it would be fairly difficult not to. From 2018 to 2023 alone, his work as a leader in groups like Sonar and Fractal Sextet along with his Fractal Guitar series and other ...

Fractal Sextet: Fractal Sextet

by Mike Jacobs
March 23, 2023

In the over two-decade-old “movement" that's come to be known as Swiss Minimalism, guitarist Stephan Thelen has pushed himself to the fore, both with his group SONAR and in solo projects. In recent years, he's been astonishingly prolific (releasing five albums from 2021-2022 alone). With recent group work in Sonar being expanded to include guitarist David ...

World Dialogue

By Stephan Thelen

Label: RareNoiseRecords
Released: 2020
Track listing: Circular Lines; Chaconne; World Dialogue; Silesia.

Stephan Thelen: World Dialogue

by Mark Sullivan
November 22, 2020

Stephan Thelen's compositions for his band Sonar have a minimalist groove that clearly relates to other groups in the experimental sphere like Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch's band Ronin. These works for string quartet are not stylistically far removed from Thelen's Sonar music, but the classical chamber music context establishes them in the world occupied ...