Stephan Thelen 'Worlds In Collision'
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- Jan 8
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Updated: Mar 6
Notes from Stephan Thelen:
"When I finished working on the second Fractal Sextet album 'Sky Full of Hope,' I had no clear idea about my next album project. The only thing I knew at the time (July 2023) was that I wanted to explore more of the ideas that David Torn and I had worked on during the recording of Sonar‘s 'Three Movements,' ideas that had more to do with the sonic possibilities of the electric guitar (especially feedback, distortion and delay) than with traditional 'musical' elements like melody or harmony.
I had also been revisiting 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts,' a groundbreaking album by Brian Eno and David Byrne that had used speech samples long before samplers were invented and that also had been an important and influential album for David Torn. This album inspired me to include polyrhythmic percussion (acoustic and electric) to a much higher degree than I had ever done before. I mentioned this in an e-mail to Fabio Anile, who told me that the Eno/Byrne album had also been a life-changing album for him and that he would be very interested in contributing to this project."
Artist: Stephan Thelen
Album: Worlds In Collision
Label: RareNoise Records
Year: 2025
More: rarenoiserecords.com, Bandcamp, Spotify
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