"'Portal' is a highly unusual album, traveling the sea from ambient to industrial and stopping at multiple ports in-between. It´s is the infected bite, the contents of the test tube, the radioactive exposure... this is easily his finest achievement to date: an album that decides to have it all, and wins."
A Closer Listen
"Schebler’s skill at crafting odd, unfamiliar sounds out of his environment is pretty much constantly amazing throughout 'Portal.'"
Norman Records
"'Portal', Baldruin’s debut on wax, is one of the most confounding and intoxicating listens of 2015. [...] Part display of surreal audio experimentation, part testament to the project’s singular vision, Portal drifts through suite after suite of distant psychosis, littered with glimmers of kraut, drone, noise, and new age. While each track keeps it relatively brief, making sure to not stay its welcome but to keep the allure alive, the end result is an ongoing saga with plenty of curios corridors to get lost in again and again."
Decoder
"'Portal' is a fidgety, ethereal gate to distorted parallels — come along for the ride."
Sonic Masala
A Closer Listen
"Schebler’s skill at crafting odd, unfamiliar sounds out of his environment is pretty much constantly amazing throughout 'Portal.'"
Norman Records
"'Portal', Baldruin’s debut on wax, is one of the most confounding and intoxicating listens of 2015. [...] Part display of surreal audio experimentation, part testament to the project’s singular vision, Portal drifts through suite after suite of distant psychosis, littered with glimmers of kraut, drone, noise, and new age. While each track keeps it relatively brief, making sure to not stay its welcome but to keep the allure alive, the end result is an ongoing saga with plenty of curios corridors to get lost in again and again."
Decoder
"'Portal' is a fidgety, ethereal gate to distorted parallels — come along for the ride."
Sonic Masala
Baldruin, the nocturnal brainchild of Johannes Schebler, came into life in 2009 and instantly a unique surrealistic sonic topography was mapped out: through the dense undergrowth of synthesizer sounds and various misty noises a more and more detailed world of sound revealed itself with every new release during the past six years - full of bells chiming, voices calling, pipes whistling and seductive percussive elements. Accordingly Baldruin's music has a very cinematic quality recalling the psychic soundtracks of Goblin, the feverish exotica of Jodorowsky's „Holy Mountain“ or the occult “Themes“ of Psychic TV. „Portal“, Baldruin's first vinyl release, follows this musical path in somnabulistic certainty towards a slighty more airy horizon. The journey's not come to an end yet, „Portal“ opens a new chapter in the ongoing saga of Baldruin's Bavarian Gothic.
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All tracks recorded by Johannes Schebler in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Lyrics on "Keine Körper, aber Seelen" & "Fäulnis" by Johannes Schebler.
Lyrics on "No Escape" taken from the poem "Night Shift" by Sylvia Plath.
Mastering by Jan Stütz.
Layout and Artwork by Paulina Uffnal
Words by Holger Adam
Thanks to Jan & Paulina
All tracks recorded by Johannes Schebler in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Lyrics on "Keine Körper, aber Seelen" & "Fäulnis" by Johannes Schebler.
Lyrics on "No Escape" taken from the poem "Night Shift" by Sylvia Plath.
Mastering by Jan Stütz.
Layout and Artwork by Paulina Uffnal
Words by Holger Adam
Thanks to Jan & Paulina