When guitarist Franz Bargmann left the Berlin neo-Krautrock trio Camera in 2013, keyboardist Timm Brockmann shortly followed siot. Since then the two of them have been busy, Bargmann working with the likes of NEU!\u2019s Michael Rother, and Brockmann collaborating with Boris Wilsdorf \u2013 house engineer for Einst\u00fcrzenden Neubaten \u2013 and The Tiger Lillies.<\/p>\n
The result of their reunion is intriguing, and often brilliant. Tracks merge to create a mellifluous maelstrom of music \u2013 for example, the ambience of Softarps, with its hints of early Sigur Ros, takes its emerging melody into the pumping near-techno of Horizont. Layers of sound create contrasting moods, often contradicting one another. So the introspective opening section of Schatten, uneasy and unresolved, bursts into a tumult of tribal toms, pounding through the anxiety, and lifting the track into a hurricane of sound. It is replaced by Meer, a tender, ambient palate-cleanser.<\/p>\n
There is great humanity among the analogue electronics. Prisma refracts seemingly randomly generated swells and pulses to create a rich tapestry of sound that brings to mind K\u00f6nigsforst <\/i>by Wolfgang Voigt\u2019s GAS, while there\u2019s something almost cheeky about the 15 minutes of silence that separates the two ends of closer Hyper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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