Schatterau - Wir gingen durch leere Stunden LPSchatteraus third album, 'Wir gingen durch leere Stunden' (We went through empty hours), sees the German duo blossoms with beauty and sophistication through a broad creative language. This opus, presented in the form of vivid auditory tableaux vivants, explores the topography of memory as a landscape in constant motionfull of loops, feedbacks, and mirage like distortions. Sounds climbing like vines over old walls, concealing details only to reveal new

A lot has come to pass in Melchior’s life over the last few years

This record pours further light over Gothenburg´s underground scene that seemingly has an endless source of hidden treasures

A music that is principally concerned with feeling

The record opens with church bells ringing and the sounds of the markets waking up against tentatively picked open strings

made me extremely curious and not a tiny bit jealous about these wiser

time behaves strangely: it jumps

and the horrors along the way

Tiiu Helinä and Myttys to name a few

I’ve been listening to “Yulquen” for 31 years

the recording is a section of the longer composition Map of 49’s Dream the Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery (begun in 1966 as a sub-section of the even larger work The Tortoise

fiddly covers hand- crafted with what one would have to assume were very small hands

especially as noted by the drum-kit urban-sounding pulse of "Imad Akel"