Tape 3/Tape 4

Following on from his previous debut album Tape 1/Tape 2 on Soundway, Felbm delivers Tape 3/Tape 4 : an intimate, emotional, lilting and melodic solo project.These 14 lo-fi, instrumental, jazz-infused sketches were written on guitar, with cascading keyboards, vibraphone and drum machine. Possessing a restorative and soothing quality, it goes some way to balancing out a chaotic year for the world at large.With echoes of the dreamier end of 1980s English indie-pop, minimal ambient music and Brazilian bossa-nova, Toppers musical storybook includes touches of The Durutti Column, hints of Ant¶nio Carlos Jobim and Baden Powell, whilst all set firmly in the summer fields of Germany and the Netherlands.The recording method used for the creation and recording of Tape 3 and Tape 4 follows the same as his previous release: all sketches were initially recorded onto cassette on a 4-track tape machine. Most notably a vibraphone finds its way onto almost every track fitting Toppers sound-palette perfectly: warm yet distinctive, a percussive as well as sustaining sound that evokes some melancholy and a certain timeless nostalgia. Features that most certainly also apply to the other new instrument on the tapes: mellotron flutes.Tape 3/Tape 4 navigates the space between quiet, open, meditative tunes and more solid instrumental works, reflecting his constant search for an optimal balance between stillness and movement.

1: Filatelie
2: Tartufai
3: Tiquetonne
4: Veluwe
5: Herausweh
6: Talmen
7: Heisei
8: Brunnengasse
9: Colorists
10: Langeweile
11: Beaufort
12: Somnambulant
13: Regtur
14: Midori

Number of Discs: 1

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