Dictaphone

The Belgian-German band Dictaphone around mastermind Oliver Doerell returns with their fifth album. After their last highly acclaimed album "APR70" Doerell is surrounded again by his longterm bandmembers Roger Döring (clarinet & saxophone) & Alex Stolze (violins). In the last 3 years they dived even deeper into their "morbid instruments" concept. An old tape machine, which Doerell found in a hidden room in his house served as soundsource, ghostly sounds could be heard and the machine died soon after being sampled. For the first time Döring played a bass clarinet on this album and after the recordings lost it in the subway... They improved their skills to use rustle as a instrument and are supported by the voice of Helga Raimondi in the track "your reign is over". The result is an ungraspable, ghostly, spooky album consisting of ten different journeys into the experimental sound world of these unique compositions.

Dictaphone: M.=Addiction [Vinyl LP]

Dictaphone: Nacht [Vinyl LP]

Finally a sign of life and a new full length of the German cult trio after five years of silence. While the vibraphone and the more easily distinguishable guitar among other things gave a certain presence to the tracks on the previous album "Poems from a rooftop", "APR 70" leaves the listener with a much more muffled impression. It feels as if each of the uncountable layers of which the intricate arrangements are made has just the right amount of contrast to be visible, but there are only very few moments where one of the elements noticeably dominates the others. The cool jazz bits, analogue flourishes, hypnotic rhythms and refined electronics feed a dark serpent-like creature meandering in ever-changing morphologies through shapeless landscapes. Vinyl: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves, 2 different vinyl colors, 180g vinyl, free download code Cd: nice digipak packaging Stream: www.denovali.com/dictaphone

Dictaphone: Unstable (Clear Blue/Deluxe) [Vinyl LP]

Dictaphone: Unstable [CD]

Dictaphone: Poems From a Rooftop (Deluxe) [Vinyl LP]