Released today. Worth a listen if you like Thelen's/Reuter's sound world.
The title track, Promise of a Better World, is inspired in part by Terry
Riley’s A Rainbow in Curved Air, yet it ventures into darker, more
dramatic terrain. Its foundation is a towering, feedback-sculpted
soundscape Markus recorded at Berlin’s iconic Hansa Studios during the
Rothko Spaces Vol. 4 sessions in October 2024. I later added layers of
organ and strings while on a solitary retreat in Romania’s Carpathian
Mountains — just down the road from Dracula’s castle — a setting whose
haunted serenity quietly echoes through the piece.
The second track, Clocks Go Down in Wonderland, is a 2025 reimagining of
our 2019 digital-only debut. This new version is greatly expanded,
incorporating an entirely new section built from sonic material recorded
during the same Hansa sessions. The piece revolves around interwoven
organ patterns in differing tempos, creating a fluid, shifting sense of
time. Markus’ guitar solo soars
with lyrical elegance, while my e-bow solo — spacious, melancholic, and
strangely luminous — remains one of my personal favorites.
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The second track, Clocks Go Down in Wonderland, is a 2025 reimagining of our 2019 digital-only debut. This new version is greatly expanded, incorporating an entirely new section built from sonic material recorded during the same Hansa sessions. The piece revolves around interwoven organ patterns in differing tempos, creating a fluid, shifting sense of time. Markus’ guitar solo soars with lyrical elegance, while my e-bow solo — spacious, melancholic, and strangely luminous — remains one of my personal favorites.
Led me to play their album "Human Equation". It was rated no. 2 Progressive Rock album for 2004 by ProgArchives.