SOLAR MUSLI [LP]

LP version. Drummer, percussionist, producer, radio journalist and DJ, Niklas Wandt's musical path can be traced back to his childhood, signposted by jazz and psychedelia. He has presented WDR 3's Jazz & World programme for a number of years, whilst a growing interest in electronic music has seen him perform live and record albums with bands like Oracles and Stabil Elite. He has even carved a niche as a DJ in the environs of the Dusseldorfer Salon des Amateurs. In 2018, Niklas Wandt and Wolf Muller released the highly acclaimed Instrumental Musik Von Der Mitte Der World album (Growing Bin Records). Wandt also founded the synth-pop project Neuzeitliche Bodenbelage with Joshua Gottmanns. Further solo and collaborative works followed in 2019 and 2020. Now, Niklas Wandt is about to release a quite astounding album under his own name on Bureau B. The full scope of influences gathered and absorbed over the years coalesce on Solar Musli -- all the pieces of the puzzle fall effortlessly into place. This is not formalism at work, but an exhilarating, freely flowing album which started out as an exercise in improvised percussion and developed into a multidimensional journey, at times both introverted and ebullient. Mere genre tags go out of the window. At certain moments, the listeners will find themselves stopping dead, transfixed in wonderment, before the ride resumes.Niklas Wandt on Solar Musli: 'As for so many of us, March of last year brought an abrupt end to a hectic schedule. The previous year, I'd spent more time on the road than at home, what with touring and radio productions . . . Deceleration, simplification, an intense thirst of the senses to focus on such fundamental phenomena once again. It was also a year full of tension and conflicts, some conscious but mostly unconscious, in a far livelier dreamworld than before -- all of which can be found in the first two tracks. A 'complete night' traces an arc from the beginning to the end, a communal journey, a liberating, vivacious experience -- all in associative lyrical collages, naturally, which cannot readily be framed in any specific form...' ?01. Der glaserne Tag?02. Durch den Spalt?03. Lo Spettro?04. Wo es war?05. Kusnacht?06. Solar Musli?07. Am Rande