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| E-News 1407 – 28th February 2025 |
| Welcome to a new E-News. Some really cool new releases are in or on the way!! So March might be a great month for new music. We are planning 2 new releases one by Otarion and one from a blast from the past the Dutch duo Zodiac. The are planned for the 3rd week of March!. But first some sad news. I just got this message from Rudy Adrian. David Parsons is with the angels now. Another great musicians that has left us.  “Hi guys, I’m on limited internet for next three days, but here’s some sad news: David Parsons has died aged 81 of pulmonary fibrosis. He had lost his voice and was on oxygen for some time and then badly injured by a fall. I think his record company have finally created a Wikipedia page for him: “ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parsons_(composer) I’ll write up my memories of him later this week  All the best, Rudy ============================ Festivals: E-Day 2025 – 31th of May 2025. De Stoelendans – Oirschot. E-Day 2025 – Ticket (Already 150 sold!!) https://www.groove.nl/shop/e-day-2025-31th-of-may-2025-ticket/?v=1a13105b7e4e Artist: Thorsten Quaeschning • Paul Frick • Harald Grosskopf (Germany) Beyond Berlin (Martin Peters and Rene de Bakker (NL) Ian Boddy & Ron Boots (featuring Harold vs Heijden) (NL) Wega (Alexander Hardt) (Germany) Foyer – Icing Wolf ============================ DIODE 2 Electronic Music Festival https://www.facebook.com/events/3821340201451283/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[]%7D  Following on from the success of the first DIODE festival in 2024, DIODE 2 will return on 7th June 2025. The best of UK and European Electronic Music comes to the Bonington in the form of 4 great acts for this all-day festival. Not to be missed for fans of contemporary electronic and ambient music. The Artists are: INFINITY CURVE (Peter Challoner + Jez Creek) from Nottingham UK SPYRA (Wolfram Spyra) from Germany RON BOOTS + IAN BODDY (Netherlands and UK) CODE INDIGO UK (David Wright, Stephan Whitlan, Andy Lobban + Carys) Tickets now on sale for DIODE II at the Bonington Theatre, Nottingham. 7th June. https://www.boningtontheatre.co.uk/whatson-event/diode-electronic-music-festival/? ============================ I hope to finaly get all the gerlins out of the studio so I can make a new Dreamscape this weekend. Well here we go with the new entries in the catalog. Thanks for your time Ron & Monique =================== New Releases =================== Cosmic Ground – Area 22/23/24 https://www.groove.nl/shop/cosmic-ground-area-22-23-24/?v=1a13105b7e4e  CD 1: 1. Area 22 2. Area 23 (part 1) CD 2: 1. Area 23 (part 2) 2. Area 24 the 3 download-only releases area 22, area 23 and area 24 (which all were released at the end of each year) will now see a release together on a double CD in Digipak. Release date is 14th of March 2025 and the double CD is limited to 200 copies. ===================================== Ian Boddy + Harald Grosskopf – Doppelgaenger https://www.groove.nl/shop/ian-boddy-harald-grosskopf-doppelgaenger/?v=1a13105b7e4e  Release date is 21st of March 2025 01 Diodengesang 8:02 02 Boulevard Horizon 11:32 03 Dubnium 6:53 04 Signals From The Echo Chamber 9:22 05 Livewire 6:33 06 Doppelgänger 7:48 Total Time 50:21 All music composed & arranged by Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf. Pre-mix by Ian Boddy. Audio stems transferred to Harald Grosskopf and mixed together with Tobias Stock at OnTape Studio (Dortmund) using a Studer 904A console and recorded onto a Nagra T-Audio tape machine. Ian Boddy used: Serge, Roland System 100-M & Eurorack modular synths, Buchla Easel Command Moog Matriarch & Voyager, Analogue Systems French Connection, VCS3, Spectrasonics Omnisphere Native Instruments Kontakt Harald Grosskopf used: Spectrasonics Omnisphere Synapse Audio The Legend HZ, Arturia Solina, Minimoog, Synclavier & ARP 2600 UAD Minimoog Yamaha FGDP-50 finger drum pad & DTX-12 multi pad LTD 500 Copies A new collaboration between Boddy and legendary German drummer & synthesist Harald Grosskopf. Grosskopf on Drums and Synths. What do mean you didn’t know that Ian Boddy is basically the Klaus Schulze of Sunderland? Well, now you do! 70s German electronic music has been a huge inspiration for Boddy and that’s evident in his sound, although he makes his particular brand of kosmische music very much his own. Here he is collaborating with krautrock legend Harald Grosskopf who provides his keyboard skills and percussion as Boddy sets the dials of his synthesizers towards the heart of the sun. Berlin school music pulled into the present day and beamed lightyears into the future. ===================================== Frank Tischer – Circumpolar https://www.groove.nl/shop/frank-tischer-circumpolar/?v=1a13105b7e4e  1 Gemini Rising 2 Circumpolar 3 La Grande Mirage 4 Twinkling Stars 5 Pont Céleste 6 Voyager 7 Im Wendekreis des Drachen 8 Cygnus 9 Apogaeum 10 Star Diver 11 Discovery A brilliant release from this German artist. If you love EM this one is suberb!! ===================================== Erik Wøllo – Where the River widens https://www.groove.nl/shop/erik-wollo-where-the-river-widens/?v=1a13105b7e4e  01 Silent Creek 02 Confluence 03 Estuarial 04 Quiet Reach 05 Inscape 1 06 Open Waters 07 Inscape 2 08 Where the River Widens 09 Through the Backdrop 10 The Beach 11 Beneath the Ember Sky Eleven meditative, atmospheric tracks filled with elegant melodic clarity form Norwegian electronic musician Erik Wøllo’s latest album. The impressionistic, minimalist electric guitar lines are looped and layered with effect pedals for a seamless balance of intimacy and spaciousness. Created and inspired in the valley of Skåbu, Norway, during the late summer of 2024, the 44-minute album is imbued with the spirit of its mountainous surroundings. It captures a slow tranquil intensity preserving spontaneous moments. Erik reflects: “I was invited to be Artist in Residence at Skåbu in the high-altitude mountains of the Jotunheimen region. For two weeks I focused on creating art, using the facilities to work on woodcuts, linocuts and more. I, of course, brought my guitar and my looping pedals, and was inspired to record a lot of new material which I later refined in my home studio. Everything was performed and composed on the fly. I tried to retain the purity of those initial performances with just a few elements and details added later for a subtly broader expression. Each track is a kind of meditation on stillness and introspection. That could be a metaphor for a slow drift down a calm widening river: a gentle flow, yet filled with life.” Water and a river’s state of flux can be a metaphor for life’s evolution. When small mountain creeks turn into rivers, then culminate and meet to form a delta, then end in a lake or the ocean. “The delta is where the river widens and where the water is quiet,” Erik notes. “This gave the inspiration and the title for this album. The theme draws inspiration from the mountains and rivers as metaphors for untouched, pure nature existing on its own terms.” Where the River Widens’ organic expression and sonic texture evoke a seamless fusion of emotion and stillness. ===================================== Colin Rayment – Penumbra https://www.groove.nl/shop/colin-rayment-penumbra/?v=1a13105b7e4e  1. The (Growing Depths Of An) Emerging Penumbra 13:442. Moonlight Over A Dancing Gobo 08:50 3. As Light Tiptoes In The Darkness 08:29 4. Distant Heartbeat Of An Echoing Shadow 10:35 5. Beneath The Shard 06:58 6. Nothing But The Umbra 05:55Less is more. As they say. And that, of course, can apply to anything. For example, how could you make more of something fairly minimal? A subtle amount of illumination in the darkness, an unsusal shaft of light, that catches the eye. Or maybe a strangely distorted shadow created in almost total blackness… One thing they all have in common, is a strange but subtile prominence. When light becomes visibly sparse. Observing the abstract patterns that are created and combined with any other unique low level light forms. Gobos in the dark of night as they constantly evolve… Now imagine, how this might possibly inspire music…A review by Beata Pardela from El Stacja:Thank you very much for Colin’s latest album, I downloaded it and I’m listening to it now. Colin is a master of creating beautiful, floating, subtle sounds that are incredibly imaginative. I’m listening to track 3 right now, and the music has completely drawn me into its unique atmosphere. It’s a fantastic portion of relaxing music that is addictive. Each sound is carefully balanced and refined in every detail, which is why it’s a real pleasure to listen to. Thank you! ===================================== Conrad Schnitzler – Slow Motion Composed for the soundtrack for the film Slow Motion by Karl Horst Hödicke (1976). Cross-border commuters of all kinds characterized this eventful time. Conrad Schnitzler (born 1937) and Karl Horst Hödicke (born 1938) – both of whom have long been part of the official art canon – were multifunctional artists; They painted, they performed, they sculpted, they made films, and they made music, always on the edge of what was “permissible”, but mostly beyond what was considered “modern” in art at the time. Schnitzler, Hödicke and many others defined a completely new avant-garde. How, when and where Schnitzler and Hödicke met is not known. But it is not surprising that Schnitzler created the soundtrack for Hödicke’s film “Slow Motion” (1976). Both artists were cut from the same cloth; for both there were limits only to be crossed. The film “Slow Motion” consists of 14 sequences. For each of these sections, Schnitzler composed music that not only followed the minimalist imagery, but emphasized it in an ingenious way. Schnitzler’s musical and Hödicke’s cinematic approach were absolutely compatible. “Slow Motion” is an important document in Schnitzler’s entire oeuvre because, on the one hand, it fits seamlessly into the many other publications of his music, but on the other hand, it shows the artist as an equal and constructive co-creator of an experimental sound film. The fact that Schnitzler maintained his aesthetic independence on this project also makes “Slow Motion” particularly worth listening to. And it is definitely a document of the time. ===================================== Moebius + Story + Leidecker – Snowghost Pieces “Snowghost Pieces” is an exceptional example of Moebius at his best. It contains all the elements that make his music great. His infectious rhythms, quirky synth sounds and great production. A good place to start if you haven’t heard him. Then track back to the earlier work of Dieter Moebius and that of Cluster and Roedelius too, and listen to some true originals of German electronic music. ===================================== Moebius + Story + Leidecker – Familiar Family trip to the Rocky Mountains, where improvisations resulted in music. Dieter Moebius (1944-2015), part of the legendary duo Cluster and godfather of electro-krautrock, was an avant-gardist of German electronic music. Tim Story and Jon Leidecker are two American electronic musicians who could hardly be more different: Story is known for his warm soundscapes, Leidecker has made a name for himself under the pseudonym Wobbly, especially with experimental sound research. He is also a member of the music and art collective Negativland. In September 2012, the three of them settled in the mountains of Montana in Brett Allen’s fantastic recording studio Snowghost, which sits high above Whitefish Lake in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. There the days merged into one another and had neither beginning nor end. Music emerged from improvisations and only became what it was at the moment of sound. After seven days, the musicians had filled a hard drive full of material that would later become the albums “Snowghost Pieces” – which was released by Bureau B in 2014 – and “Familiar”. On “Familiar” it seems difficult to find explicit allusions to the beauty of the surrounding nature – the album contains some of the most restless and abstract musical work of the entire stay. Copyright © 2025 Groove Unlimited, All rights reserved. |
