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Review: 'ST. WERNER, JAN'
'Fielder (Fiepblatter Catalogue #4)'   

-  Label: 'Thrill Jockey'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: '1st April 2016'

Our Rating:
Jan St. Werner is one half of the celebrated German electronica duo Mouse On Mars. He has pursued a parallel solo career as Lithops and under his own name and his latest release is described as an "infinite, boundless creation".

His work has also somewhat pretentiously been labelled in some quarters as "sonic architecture". If Fielder were indeed a building it would be full of rambling passages, secret stairways and unevenly shaped rooms.

The experimental ambient music is more about patterns and textures than rhythms or beats. A defined form is always elusive as the layers of sound only hint at conventional melodies but you don't get the impression that St. Werner sets out to be deliberately abrasive

The fourteen minute Krogue AF is a good example of the way sounds drift and swirl in an apparently random fashion before settling for a throbbing pulse near the end.

As with Fennesz, there is always the reassuring sense that there is a beating heart within the synthetic body.

The Somewhere That Is Moving is another extended piece in which minimalist piano and trumpet add delicate punctuation to the hums and drones.

Unlike Miscontinium, the immediate predecessor in this ongoing Fiepblatter series, there are no words (aside from a brief sampled "Thank you very much").

Despite this, the artist effectively conveys a meditative mood of calm and stillness to create a fascinating and absorbing album.
  author: Martin Raybould

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ST. WERNER, JAN - Fielder (Fiepblatter Catalogue #4)