"Arcane instruments are just one part of the dream-like space Schebler creates and in 'Relikte aus der Zukunft' he extends the esoteric methods heard across the 'Gespensterland' compilation into his own private realm. Small Instruments, audio snippets, woodwind sounds and electronic interventions are all coralled in Audio editing Software into fantastic evocations of Fifth World Utopias and dystopias."
The Wire magazine
The Wire magazine
"His impressive latest album shows Schebler’s ability to capture so many moods and sounds and present them in a focused and coherent manner [which] is commendable, and gives the listener a wide ranging and enjoyable listening experience."
Waveform Magazine
Waveform Magazine
"You’re never quite sure where you are exactly though: nor in what time period. The ground beneath your feet is translucent, or, like an ever-changing shimmer and shiver of evaporated atmospheres. This is a knowing album that taps into its influences and church music groundings to offer a balance between the spiritual and disturbing."
Monolith Cocktail
Monolith Cocktail
"From the sepulchral atmosphere of ‘Hintenherum’, via the kosmische baroque of the title tune, to an invocation of whirligig folk music on ‘Ritt of der Silberechse’, or the quizzical melancholy of ‘Insel der Hoffnung’ and between worlds ambient bliss of ‘Der feinfühlige Geist’, Baldruin convects an ideal soundtrack to waking dreams and uchronic fantasies."
Boomkat
Boomkat
"Good albums are more than just a collection of good songs. When played together, they can create an experience that a single track could never achieve on its own. 'Relikte aus der Zukunft' invites us on just such a journey."
HHV mag
""A Chapel on a spaceship plays solemn hymns uncannily similar to our own. From a wide vocabulary of sonic relics associated with various belieft, Baldruin constructs a reverent path to the sublime."
Objects & Sounds
HHV mag
""A Chapel on a spaceship plays solemn hymns uncannily similar to our own. From a wide vocabulary of sonic relics associated with various belieft, Baldruin constructs a reverent path to the sublime."
Objects & Sounds
Under the auspices of Peruvian label Buh Records, Baldruin displays new data gathered from his fantastical and remote musical region in the label's vast and diverse catalog. Baldruin's work has already established a particular territory that each of his albums meticulously explores like an unknown land, but even more so like a unique imaginary culture. His discography is the tale and the evidence of this encounter.
The tracks are full of color and amazement, detailed and thorough when evoking the setting and conjuring the experience. They can be playful and bright, or suspenseful and ominous, until bursting into ritual and hallucination. The gloomiest soundscapes can jump into a ship fueled by retro sci-fi arpeggios, the solemn can turn to rejoice, and a star can shrink into a fireplace.
The relics that the title refers to are amplified to the intensity of a scene and the extent of a landscape. We have seen this scale-turning process in Baldruin's miniature pieces, but when there is more time for the scene to unravel what appears are bits of a kind of social interaction. As if we were observing the dancers in an alien ball or a conversation between the elders of a tribe as the stars push down upon them. At its most dismal figures, the transparency and wonder are kept pristine, because these tracks are made to be clear and comprehensive, adding meaning and density to Baldruin's extensive array of sonic expeditions.
The tracks are full of color and amazement, detailed and thorough when evoking the setting and conjuring the experience. They can be playful and bright, or suspenseful and ominous, until bursting into ritual and hallucination. The gloomiest soundscapes can jump into a ship fueled by retro sci-fi arpeggios, the solemn can turn to rejoice, and a star can shrink into a fireplace.
The relics that the title refers to are amplified to the intensity of a scene and the extent of a landscape. We have seen this scale-turning process in Baldruin's miniature pieces, but when there is more time for the scene to unravel what appears are bits of a kind of social interaction. As if we were observing the dancers in an alien ball or a conversation between the elders of a tribe as the stars push down upon them. At its most dismal figures, the transparency and wonder are kept pristine, because these tracks are made to be clear and comprehensive, adding meaning and density to Baldruin's extensive array of sonic expeditions.
—
All tracks recorderd in Wiesbaden, Germany, by Johannes Schebler
Mastered by Alberto Cendra
Artwork and layout by Johannes Schebler
All tracks recorderd in Wiesbaden, Germany, by Johannes Schebler
Mastered by Alberto Cendra
Artwork and layout by Johannes Schebler