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.
I only came across this album recently and amongst a glut of new old albums in nearly got the one play and filed treatment, which would have been wrong. Goodrick was a guitar player in Gary Burton's band, This is his only ECM album as leader. His band here is rather special Eddie Gomez bass, Jack DeJohnette drums and John Surman sax. Expect bluesy mellow ballads almost throughout. This would have been way too tasteful for me when I was a youth despite being a Surman fan since the early 80's.
Yellin from They Might Be Giants and Kaplan from Yo La Tengo great stuff including a great joke / memory of Hawkwind's Master of the Universe oh and Surfer Girl the Brian Wilson tear jerker. Really like Yellin on cello here. Thomas is in a good mood but still sounds like a psychotic episode waiting to happen. Recorded at The Knitting Factory back in 93.
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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.
Day Of Phoenix - Wide Open N-Way (1970)
I only came across this album recently and amongst a glut of new old albums in nearly got the one play and filed treatment, which would have been wrong. Goodrick was a guitar player in Gary Burton's band, This is his only ECM album as leader. His band here is rather special Eddie Gomez bass, Jack DeJohnette drums and John Surman sax. Expect bluesy mellow ballads almost throughout. This would have been way too tasteful for me when I was a youth despite being a Surman fan since the early 80's.
Yellin from They Might Be Giants and Kaplan from Yo La Tengo great stuff including a great joke / memory of Hawkwind's Master of the Universe oh and Surfer Girl the Brian Wilson tear jerker. Really like Yellin on cello here. Thomas is in a good mood but still sounds like a psychotic episode waiting to happen. Recorded at The Knitting Factory back in 93.