Bernd-Michael Land - Einskommafünf

Artist: Bernd-Michael Land
P: 2017
BERND-MICHAEL LAND is an obvious admirer of the Berlin School and skillfully moves his music between ASH RA TEMPEL and TANGERINE DREAM or KLAUS SCHULZE and KRAFTWERK. But also a JEAN MICHEL JARRE is very close to him, as the entry into the album proves with "On Air", while "Nachtschleife" awakens memories of EDGAR FROESE's solo time and his 74-debut album "Aqua". The most complex and strangely playful, on the one hand like a D-Zug-rolling and on the other hand moving in the creative spirit of a MANUEL GÖTTSCHING moving "lattice tension" is on the album a very special highlight.
However, Land often gives all discernible influences on "Transmitter 594kHz" a much darker note and its electronics merge with many natural sounds. He himself speaks of a "new, hybrid reality in sound, space and time", where he combines his analog and digital synthesizers and sequencers with alienated nature sounds. An unimaginably symbiotic and at the same time wonderfully complementary union, which in addition, in a full, very voluminous sound filling room and with many effects enriched our speakers so much demanded. For the musical realization of "Transmitter 595kHz" BERND-MICHAEL LAND uses all synthesizers, sequencers and samplers of the former large broadcasting hall of the Hessischer Rundfunk, which he records in real time and without the use of any computer technology. Quite similar to how KLAUS SCHULZE practiced in his early years.