Cheapo Sounds

A pivotal figure in Duesseldorfs Salon Des Amateurs, Stefan Schwander has already amassed a remarkably rich musical reper-toire. Through his Harmonious Thelonious project, he has spent the past dozen years exploring the worlds of Pan-African, South Ameri-can and Middle Eastern rhythms in combination with a minimalistic electronic sound, distilling his very own groove from the point at which they converge. His new album - challengingly entitled "Cheapo Sounds" - sees Schwander move away from tried and trusted recipes.This musical reorientation starts with the fundamental approach to pro-duction: the entire record was created using a single instrument - the Monomachine - which lends a very physical sound to the 10 tracks fea-tured here. The polyrhythms of earlier works are no longer in the fore-ground, replaced by melodies and chords interwoven on a base frame of brittle, simplified beat constructs and rugged bass pulses.

1: Soft Opening Machine
2: Liquid Sound Waves
3: Limitations
4: M and A
5: Gummitwist & Crawl (Die Koffer Sind Leer)
6: Sunglasses
7: Orion Stars
8: Back from the Primitive Galaxy
9: Cheapo Sounds
10: Afterhour

Number of Discs: 1

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