For those not in the know, on the 18th of August, in the year 2019 AD, a shapeshifting experiment was conducted at a sonic laboratory in Brooklyn, NYC.
The experiment involved three principle participants: touch guitarist & sonic pioneer. Markus Reuter; the equally able, agile and adventurous guitarist and sonic texturist, Tim Motzer (who also painted the cover art); and the extraordinary chronological conductor, Kenny Grohowski - each proficient in the mysterious art of 'sonic shapeshifting'.
For there were, most certainly, some superhuman skills on display; a session which defied conventional logic, entrancing and astounding all the on-hand observers; and a recording which thumbs its nose at convention, while fully embracing its alien roots.
Morphing, gleefully, at will - yet again, referencing shapeshifting through the spinning of another timeless epic and finding all three principle participants at their most sensitive, transformational best.
Thus, here on this brand new album, Shapeshifters (out October 16th, 2020 via MoonJune Records), a rare, alluring euphonious feast awaits all those that dare come on inside and touch the musical spirits within.
1. 'Dark Sparks' [22:46]
2. 'Transmutation' [18:23]
3. 'Cyphers' [14:01]
4. 'Burn to Aether' [08:49]
Reuter, a German composer who has earned critical acclaim throughout Europe and America for his work as a composer, guitar player, guitar designer, sound designer, producer and teacher, opens with the, at times, ominously cultured, ethereal-steeled, gently pulsating, connotated orchestrations of 'Dark Sparks' and backs that up with the more industrially driven, swirly and guitar-flourished 'Transmutation.'
That is itself followed by the, at times, heated desert sizzle and yet, at others, the outer worlds, spacial, atmospheric magnificence of 'Cyphers,' closing on the drum-led beats, steady guitar and evenflow rhythms of 'Burn to Aether.'
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