published: 14 /
3 /
2015
Label:
Bureau B
Format: CD
Enigmatic but extraordinary collaborative album between German electronic musician Stefan Schneider and percussionist Sven Kacirek
Review
For his 2015 album, Stefan Schneider teams up with percussionist Sven Kacirek. They also receive a little help from Nicholas Addo Netty on drums on the album's ultimate track, 'Call this Krautrock 2.0'.
To the experienced ear, 'Shadows Documents' offers new depths. Deeper with its repetitive percussion than perhaps ever before, you'll hear a dangling new wealth of sophisticated bleeps and integrated beats. 'Shadow Documents' captures manoeuvres in the dark, and secret agents' mystiques. Quiet beats and lovely little melodies interact together at Junction Unknown. Glitch electronica and steaming patterns plus warmly glowing crisps and crackles guide the listener through an album of fancy phantoms.
Schneider's slick sequences might seem as if they are building towards a climax of exquisite electronics, but instead the album's stern rhythms set out a rather magnificent array and parade of modern stylistics. The symphonic qualities of 'Shadows Documents' uniquely introduce pulsatingly innovative IDM, Intelligent Dance Music, which usually misses the point though not this time, as Schneider can claim IDM as his very own territory. 'Electro Electronics' sums up the various sides to this extravagant masquerade, being rich in effect but soberly stripped to the bone.
Listening to 'Shadows Documents' is like reading a good detective novel, before finally getting to the end. It features dark mysteries aplenty which refuse to get any clearer. 'To Microphone' is one such example. While an instrumental because of the album's absence of human voice, the track plays tricks on the ear. Its electronic warmth and its steadfast quality work like a blanket covering the minimalistic compositions. 'Shadows Documents' is a rather magnificent blend of all matters and music labelled electronic. Proof perhaps that even a machine stares at its navel.
Track Listing:-
1
Doubles
2
Hand an Wand
3
To Microphone
4
Birds, Bell and Sticks
5
Low Rhythm
6
Electro Electronics
7
Talwerk
8
We Will Need Each Other
9
Spiegelmotiv
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