ULRICH SCHNAUSS & JONAS MUNK - Eight Fragments Of An Illusion - CD

LABEL: Azure Vista

CAT NO: VISTA011CD

BARCODE: 5024545921328

Tracklisting:

1. Asteroid 2467
2. Return To Burlington
3. Solitary Falling
4. Perpetual Motion
5. Narkomfin
6. Faint Lights In The Distance
7. Along Deserted Streets
8. Polychrome

ULRICH SCHNAUSS & JONAS MUNK
– Eight Fragments Of An Illusion

CD
(Housed in a high quality digifile cover designed by Jakob Skøtt)

London-based producer Ulrich Schnauss and Danish guitarist and producer Jonas Munk have both unfolded their unique visions of electronic music over the past two decades, and they have been collaborating since the mid-2000s. Eight Fragments Of An Illusion is their first album in over four years, their third overall. The latest effort is ambient and introspective in nature, but with a kinetic, polyrhythmic energy pushing it forward. There’s a floating quality to Ulrich’s synthesizer washes and Munk’s guitar patterns, yet the eight tracks are anchored by pulse and compositional direction. The duo brings their individual strengths to the table, yet the music transcends any of their previous work conceptually. There are echoes of blissed-out new age music and kosmische from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as traces of shoegaze-era abstraction and leftfield electronica. But ultimately there’s no off-the-rack category that fits it. It exists in its own rarefied space.