Meditations by Felix Gebhard

'Meditations', the new album by Felix Gebhard, is the follow-up to the cassette 'Limitations', released in June 2016. While the latter's character was to a great deal forged out of its free-form approach to recording - often hastily improvised between different locations - 'Meditations' is more focused and structured, and contains music that in parts comes in almost classic song-formats. The main instrument here is an electric baritone guitar, whose lowest tone, B, runs through all of the album's eight compositions, sometimes as a subtle hum, sometimes in form of loud distorted drones. The addition of a variety of instruments, from analog synthesizers to harmonica to drums and percussion gives 'Meditations' a wide spectrum of sounds, at times making it feel like a group effort rather than the doings of a single person. The use of a proper recording facility, Studio 65 in the Wedding-district of Berlin, allowed Gebhard to shape this new work into something of, at least by his own standards, higher fidelity.

Maker of musics, taker of pictures, sitter under trees.

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