Wombo - Fairy Rust - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Wombo - Danger In Fives [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/08/2025

?If there is a common thread in Stefan Keller's extremely varied music, it is probably not anything in the realm of style, form, or choice of materials, but rather a concept of music in which the idea of Inchperformative presenceInch plays a significant role. For him, music is Incha form of intensive communication encompassing all of the senses and the physical involvement of the listenersInch. The physical appeal of Keller's compositions can be seen most clearly in his affinity for rhythm. There is hardly a composition, in which percussion instruments don't play an important role. Keller's complexly structured sound processes effortlessly mix elements from pop, electronic, and non-European music. His use of phenomena from a broad range of musical traditions does not treat the use of referential material as an ironic game with allusions and quotations but instead as a continuation and evolution of the material's energetic potential. Keller once described this as Inchmaking the impact of the newly contextualized music one's own.Inch Ensemble Ascolta presents on this album four very different works from the highly virtuosic solo InchStück für KlavierInch [Piece for Piano] to Inchhybrid gaitsInch, written for Ascolta's unusual instrumental formation

Rustin Man aka Paul Webb will a new album ' his second in two years ' on March 20th. Having waited 17 years for Drift Code, some may be surprised at Clockdust's swift arrival, but the album's roots can be found in the same extended sessions. 'Early on I realised I had two albums worth of material,' Webb explains. 'The first tunes I wrote were electric guitar based, with long arrangements that built up in layers to something sonically quite dense. These became the bulk of Drift Code. As a reaction, I wrote a batch of songs that were tighter in their structure but had more feeling of space. These make up the bulk of Clockdust.' Idiosyncratic and quietly haunting, Clockdust is seeped in sepia-tinted nostalgia, 'a powerful force of nature,' he states, 'up there with love and desire'. The album blurs the boundaries between past and present. Webb insists that he prefers to live in the here and now, but in looking back he's found a magical, mesmerising manner in which to forge a path forward for him, for his music, and for his audience.