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Gosh this Jonas Reinhardt self titled CD on Kranky sounds right up my street with its delicious analogue synthesizers recalling prime 70's electronic music. The drum machines sounds are fantastic. The production has a huge amount of warmth and the vintage sounds simply put are celestial. The synths are literally weeping at me through the airwaves. Again I'm going to quote a press release here "for fans of John Carpenter, Harmonia, Goblin, early-Kraftwerk, early Moroder and Neu" I'd probably add Jean Michelle Jarre and Tangerine Dream to that list. For a more contemporary reference possibly Zombi. This manages to bo both highly dramatic and epic sounding without being pompous. A most pleasant surprise.Without doubt one of Kranky’s greatest album of 2008, an essential purchase for fans of John Carpenter, Harmonia, Goblin, early-Kraftwerk, early Moroder and Neu.
Drawing from traditions of 20th Century instrumental synthesiser music, Jonas Reinhardt represents a love affair between analogue electronics, sweeping atmospherics, and driving motorik beats. Combined together, these
elements bring the album’s thirteen pieces into focus as the soundtrack for an inner-eyelid space epic that never was.
Inspired in equal measure by the natural beauty of his California coastal surroundings, continental European art-rock experimentation, and the freewheeling punk aesthetic of contemporary home studio recording, Jonas Reinhardt’s music transcends it’s influences to bring into being a work that’s wholly new while referencing a celebrated aesthetic of the past.
Armed with a battery of analogue synthesisers and vintage drum machines, Jonas writes music that is at times stark and spare and at others lush and all-encompassing; all the while keeping an underlying rhythmic pulse just beneath the surface.
Track listing: 1. Lyre of David 2. Modern by Nature’s Reward 3. Lord Sleep Monmouth 4.How to Adjust People 5. Fast Blot Declining 6. Tentshow 7. Every Terminal Evening 8. Worm Preach the Struggling Fire 9. Tandem Suns 10. Blue Cutaway/Tore Earth Clinker 11.An Upright Fortune 12. Crept Idea For A Mom 13. Lucian Lift
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