SEEMANN - SCHLEUSE

CDR, https://seemann1.bandcamp.com/

In the same package as the TBC_CZEPOKS / Korridore release, we found yet another CDR. Yes, it was already two years ago, but the atmosphere on this fits the previously reviewed 'Korridore' really perfect. So we decided on reviewing it anyway. It is entitled 'Schleuse' (sluice), and it's by one of the members of Czepoks: Kai Seemann. Kai created and manipulated all sounds, and others did only the mastering and artwork.

'Schleuse' is a 36 minute piece, and before I played it for the first time, I had an actual sluice in mind, with a level on one side, a lower level on the other side and in between a massive body of water slowly changing from one to the other. How would an artist play with that imagery? Well, Kai approached it from an entirely different perspective. The primary drone opens very light, and after a while, it starts evolving. Sounds are continuously being added, and you forget about time. Towards the end, voices are ever so carefully placed, and what began as a 'cheerful' ambient thing ends in a soundtrack for a horror movie. Remember the description 'cinematic isolationism' from the turn of the century / tumour-list era? Well, this ending fits that description and could quickly become a release on its own.