Schemes is the ninth album by German legends Kreidler who are Thomas Klein, Alexander Paulick and Andreas Reihse who recoded in Berlin, initially at Morphine Raum on the sideline of public performances, then at Andere Baustelle, they are joined on Fenix by special guest Leo Garcia.
The album opens with Beads a slow ambient opening that will allow you to focus on threading a few hundred beads onto a chain, it slowly meanders across the speakers. The guitar sounds totally laid back and improvised, trying to mimic the sounds of the water rushing by.
Klove Twin is split between a funky bassline and a light guitar figure that the percussion shuffles around, above and below. Snowflakes sounds like they recorded the sound of Snowflakes hitting oil drums and metal and wooden objects amplified and adulterated the sounds, while machines whir and revolve in wonderfully analogue ways.
Bellboy you have rung for him to come and supply you with the things that aren't on the room service menu, he is shuffling about searching pockets and waiting for a suitable wad to come his way, so he can magic pills and powders into your reality, while you seek a way to find those China gates.
The Distance Between You can only be crossed at the exact shuffling pace this is set at, you must turn slightly at every repetition of the main motif whoever is next to you at the end of the tune is the one you sought after all, try not to bump into too many of the near somnambulant trance figures shuffling through that dark dancefloor with you, waiting to find the connection, bringing minds together bodies flexing you still seem so far away, yet slowly the synths will draw you tightly together.
Looming Large like your eyeballs fully dilated pinned to a wall an all-encompassing shadow slowly envelopes you, fractals of light dance across the Shadow reborn from the 50's Lowell midnights with doctor sax reborn.
Marble Upset could be the bands own World cup theme, soundtrack to an unexpected defeat, we watch the players mournfully leave the field, semi-distraught, the manager has already handed his papers in, it's that bad, shame you couldn't beat that minnow, breathy voices apologise in the background. Will you ever live this down, another Gareth chained to one mistake.
Via De Me is almost underwater cocktail bar music, sitting in a glass dome, water rushes by, deep resonant noises drift through the water, an ever-changing vista of fishes and seaweed slowly moving, shifting synth pulses.
Fenix with Leo Garcia is the only song on the album, a very chilled mantra from Argentinian Leo Garcia, chanting his mantra along to the supple rhythm everybody needs to follow. Tar is slowly drying in the midday sun, the cicadas are chirping away, you sit watching the tar slowly move down the hill while drying, while deeply inhaling the bitumen's vapours glad you didn't have to lay that Tar.
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