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Bright Bars From The Stars

Cosmic dubbed-out dancefloor psychedlia from Berlin on the Belgian Meakusma Label
 
https://www.musicmaniarecords.be

Slowly, slowly does it for sud trader Pieter Kock, taking his taste for lower BPMs to new levels with his suite of crawl-paced froth for fans of Tolouse Low Trax and Vladimir Ivkovic
 
https://boomkat.com

Per chi bazzica la nightlife berlinese, Pieter Kock è meglio noto come DJ Peacock (ma anche Billie & Ballie, Taladu), figura di spicco e organizzatore del bar/club O Tannenbaum. Bright Bars From The Stars, il suo sesto album dopo Facial Recognition del 2022, rappresenta un ulteriore capitolo di una personale visione psichedelica, intrecciando un variegato universo di ritmi elettronici downtempo, tribali e dal sapore dub. Il risultato è un viaggio sonoro dove le tastiere traducono visioni cosmiche e oniriche, mentre distopie mai troppo inquietanti invitano formano trame notturne che invitano alla scoperta di sé come del prossimo attraverso lenti post-rave.
 
L’album si snoda in un continuum che evoca le campagne trasfigurate di Harmonia, Cluster e Brian Eno, così come i paesaggi metafisici degli Orb e dei KLF, senza mai scadere in citazioni esplicite. Il microcosmo sonoro di Pieter Kock, con le sue melodie, ritmi ed effetti sapientemente orchestrati, si regge in modo autonomo. Se proprio si vuole tracciare un parallelo, lo si può fare con l’universo surreale di Piotr Kurek e le sue documentazioni extraterrestri. Ne emerge un “suono botanico”, espressione di germogli e fioriture, come accade in Snowly White Hammond Birds, o di una fauna più spettrale e interlocutoria, evidente in For Feldman (un omaggio al compositore americano delle Nature Pieces) e nella cinematica Haunting To The Future, che richiama le colonne sonore immaginarie di Eno.
 
La tracklist è varia e sfaccettata, spaziando tra umori balearici di fine anni ’80 (Bright Bars From The Stars), minimalismi tardo Philip Glass (This Bamboo Is Poisoned), eppure mantenendo una coerenza di fondo. Ogni traccia si configura come un tassello di un mosaico incantevole o come un cocktail servito al bancone di un bar in un’altra galassia. L’intero album è un invito alla scoperta, una costellazione di suoni e visioni che trascende generi e confini.
 
https://www.sentireascoltare.com

 
With »Bright Bars From The Stars«, Pieter Kock delivers a house and downtempo album that’s delightfully off the beaten track. While brimming with creativity, the album shares a defining characteristic: hardly any track undergoes a truly noticeable, striking development. Instead, the tracks almost always reveal their components and secrets right from the start. This is a mark of quality, as the music doesn’t lose any tension. On the contrary, this openness allows the producer to focus much more on the subtle micro-changes—it’s these that ultimately create the special atmosphere.
 
»Bright Bars From The Stars« is seven tracks long. The beginning and the end are formed by the slowed down, tribalistic pieces »Ko Blij Nie Sta« and »This Bamboo Is Poisoned«. Alongside the beautifully sad deep-house track »Facial Recognition«, it is above all »Giving In A Box Office« that sets the LP apart from many productions. »Bright Bars From The Stars« is a deep, somewhat confusing album. In its seemingly transparent nature there are a multitude of folds to be discovered. As befits sophisticated minimal music, it takes time. If you give the pieces that time, a power and beauty of its own unfolds.
 
https://www.hhv-mag.com

The guy behind the counter at Berlin’s O Tannenbaum bar and club has been on a tear recently, with releases on Meakusma, Moonwalk X, RIO and forthcoming on Macadam Mambo, Like some of the music of Manchester’s YOUTH label, it seems to resonate with both dancefloors and atmospheric bar spaces. “Sting” is a great example, with beats that don’t force you to listen in a particular way, but create multiple points of resonance for the listener and the body. Via Bandcamp
 
https://slowmotion.blog

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