Markus Reuter, Michael Manring, Japanese Garden
Markus Reuter Oculus – Nothing is Sacred (MoonJune, 2020), Michael Manring – Small Moments (2020), Japanese Garden – Roji (WoW Records, 2019)
Markus Reuter Oculus – Nothing is Sacred (MoonJune, 2020), Michael Manring – Small Moments (2020), Japanese Garden – Roji (WoW Records, 2019)
Gary Husband & Markus Reuter – Music of Our Times (MoonJune, 2020)
Blaer – Yellow (Ronin Rhythm Records, 2020)
Giorgi Mikadze – Georgian Microjamz (RareNoise 2020)
INTERVIEW March 2019 – I just remembered that when I started composing last summer, a friend asked what kind of techniques I am using. I tried to explain. I remembered a game child play. It’s like a moving part on a world, like you have a complex music composition here on the bottom, but on top there’s a shape moving, which allows to see only some things. This is actually how Heartland was composed. It’s like a shape with holes that moved on top of a colored surface.
A photographer is literally somebody drawing with light. A man writing & rewriting the world with light & shadows – Wim Wenders, The Salt of the Earth For everyone who felt in love with The Salt of the Earth, the iconic picture by Wim Wenders about the life and the work of master photographer Sebastiao Salgado, watching black and white art photography changed like never before. The sense of emotional charge, the gut feeling that those images hinting at an inner sense of world and humanity provoked, all those things were disclosed like never before. The earth, in its basic nudity,… Continue reading
Quando ascolto un power trio (chitarra, basso voce) sospeso tra tempi prog e improvvisazione semi-destrutturata la mente mi va quasi automaticamente ad esperimenti come Bozzio Levin Stevens, oppure il trio di McGill Manring Stevens o quello di Alex Skolnick.Tutti esperimenti a cavallo fine anni ’90 inizio 2000 dove si testava un ambito di improvvisazione partendo dalla matrice prog. Gli Orion Tango hanno una matrice decisamente simile, alla quale aggiungono sinistri ostinati, tappeti ambient, crescendi shoegaze il tutto con un sound decisamente in presa diretta, da garage improvisation. La title track ha questa partenza lenta, ipnotica. Sotto un groove deciso della batteria cresce la… Continue reading