Family trip to the Rocky Mountains, where improvisations resulted in music.
Dieter Moebius (1944-2015), part of the legendary duo Cluster and godfather of electro-krautrock, was an avant-gardist of German electronic music. Tim Story and Jon Leidecker are two American electronic musicians who could hardly be more different: Story is known for his warm soundscapes, Leidecker has made a name for himself under the pseudonym Wobbly, especially with experimental sound research. He is also a member of the music and art collective Negativland. In September 2012, the three of them settled in the mountains of Montana in Brett Allen's fantastic recording studio Snowghost, which sits high above Whitefish Lake in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. There the days merged into one another and had neither beginning nor end. Music emerged from improvisations and only became what it was at the moment of sound. After seven days, the musicians had filled a hard drive full of material that would later become the albums "Snowghost Pieces" - which was released by Bureau B in 2014 - and "Familiar". On "Familiar" it seems difficult to find explicit allusions to the beauty of the surrounding nature - the album contains some of the most restless and abstract musical work of the entire stay.
