Alex Crane
This album is somehow simultaneously calming and exiting. It's fairly minimal with well balanced portions of interesting rhythms, melody, and harmony. I've listened to it many times and will listen many more times.
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A digital booklet with additional artwork and information for each track is included with the album download.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The CD comes in a handmade digisleeve including 8 cards with additional artwork, credits and further information about each track.
Please note that these are assembled by hand, numbered and only available in a very limited quantity. The first run is limited to 25. I might print and assemble more in the future.
Includes unlimited streaming of Polarity
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The title is taken from an article about the consequences of secondary diseases following preventable cases of measles due to anti-vaccination conspiracy theorists.
“Infaust” means unfavourable, often lethal prognosis.
Starlings (02:45)
Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Inspired by the undulating flight patterns of a murmuration of starlings, as seen through a train window at dusk
Pi (03:47)
Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Percussion
After finding out about compositions that incorporate the number Pi, this piece started as a semi-serious attempt to write my own variation.
Soon, I set a slightly different and more serious goal:
1. The piece should structurally follow the first seven digits of Pi
2. It should work as a coherent and musical piece regardless of this strict structure
Initially inspired by fingerstyle guitarist Peter Ciluzzi, this is the closest I’ve come to a solo guitar song on this album. These parts are interrupted by the ever-present eponym.
100 Geisterfahrer (German for “wrong-way driver”) (04:35)
Keyboards, Bass VI
Always consider that you could be wrong.
Visibility (04:15)
Guitars, Bass
The title is inspired by the slow, but steady shift to give up the right to privacy for convenience or an assumed increase of safety.
This piece refused to take a conventional form. The first loose ideas were formed in a wooden cabin in the Alps. Over time, more and more parts & variations emerged and the final structure was established.
The title refers to both this structure and the importance of adjusting to setbacks and unforeseen developments.
credits
released April 29, 2020
written, performed and arranged by
Jonas Schweiger
recorded and mixed at home
between February and March 2020
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