N & ninemiles - 44​.​04 (2020)

Two German artists, Hellmut Neidhardt (N) and Thomas Kempka (ninemiles) (the latter known as a member of [BOLT]) have cooperated and toured together for some time now but it's only now they released their own material via dunk!records. And by "now" I mean the end of the last year, but 44.04 is too good to skip it in favour of newer albums.

The soundscapes of the first track on this album are of the more lively type. There's a lot going on, but, at the same time, their sound is homogenous and well thought-through; there's no chaos in this music but there's a lot of mood. The darker, rougher noise usually finds its place in the backgrounds while organ-like synths and other effects occupy the first rows of the compositions. Of course, this is the thing that mostly catches attention here, those simple but also in a weird way complex compositions have some particularly mesmerizing features, swallowing the audience whole. The second track is more about noisy drones that can easily lull you to sleep.

44​.​04 costs 7 EUR.

Check: II

Country: Germany

Genre: synth-rich soundscape

Label: dunk!records

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