Christian Löffler - A Forest
Christian Löffler is co-founder of Ki Records and well known for his
intense, deep moving sound with melancholic undertones. He started to
play music at the age of 14. But living in a secluded region near the
Baltic Sea, without a musical surrounding, he had to teach himself the
essentials of making electronic music. After several stunning releases
for Ki and Orphanear, the imprint of Dial's co-founder Pawel, his debut
'A Forest' is now being released through Ki. His music signifies an
upward curve of rising intensity from which everything non-essential
drops away. Whereat essential is meant in the sense of introspective. If
the kick drum thuds along reasonably unassuming in the beginning of a
track, it is already withdrawn into itself. Dancing, sure, but with one
foot in a dream. There is the always emerging crackling, surrounding the
arriving and surrounding what has been, floating, like almost absent
into each other collapsing chords, circling around a sphere which is
nearly beyond the music – a sphere that only pertains me, the listener,
and which I hadn't known without this music. And these like seagulls
chopping hi-hats, or like a heavy sea beating bass lines, rolling back
and forth in almost oblique of beauty hanging clearings. A FOREST, for
example, casts somewhat Tejada-esque shadows but without the timpani,
only with meandering delay. And yes you do remember the sunlight of
tomorrow when you hear BLIND or FIELD. Or SIGNALS, a track on which Arvo
Pärt could have been the force behind and whose Tintinnabuli (bell)
style connects on it with the dance floor in the most beautiful way. Not
only raises it the volume, but also warms the heart.
€18.00