Ereignishorizont

Dirk Dresselhaus used customized electro-acoustic guitars, featuring unique pickups and connections to additional sound sources, to create the improvised pieces on Schneider TMs album Ereignishorizont. Comparable to his 2013 release Guitar Sounds, this one moves away from more ethereal and melodic textures, exploring more alien territory. The 20-minute opening title track crawls across an arid environment, with sparse notes floating atop dubby vibrations, gradually swelling up in coiled fury. "(J = 0)" is a levitating drone that approximates the sensation of an airplane taking off, bearing the pressure and turbulence in order to achieve an unrestricted view of the earth below. "Pluralitat" is filled with guitar licks that are vaporized and transformed into bubbles, suggesting what microsound blues might sound like. "Holomechanik" is an industrial dubscape with heavy, clanging beats that somehow seem ghostly. "Pollucit" gets harsher, with abrasive, buzzing interferences that gradually rush into a mesmerizing psychedelic swirl. "Austritt" is more serene and spacy, but it nearly succumbs to its darker impulses as it gets flooded with bracing distortion. Lastly, "Ost-Spirale" is crystalline ambiance that stays grounded and rumbles through the dirt. Ereignishorizont takes the experimentation of Schneider TMs previous albums to new heights. Its far from his most accessible material, but its some of the most innovative, mind-expanding work hes ever done. ~ Paul Simpson