Prismatic Ceremony by Zebularin
Their fourth album (and their 2nd for Steep Gloss) finds the Stuttgart collective juxtaposing elements of chamber music (“Pictophagos“), jazz-flavoured eastern European soundtracks (“Feenstaub“) and metallic post-industrial meanderings (“Nondromanon“) into a new erratic narrative.
The opener “Despot“ with its jagged rhythm, sinewy analog synths and ring-modulated guitars surely sets the tone for a generally darker and moodier sound-approach, but Zebularin stay as agile as ever, utilizing condensed emotions, as well as prosaic minimalism.
At times occult psychedelic clatter, fragments of oversaturated improv trance or an odd krautrock-ish witchhunt (“Irden“) emerge out of the dense electroacoustic fog, which seems impenetrable and sublime in equal parts.
Ladies and gentlemen, let us rejoice in “Prismatic Ceremony“.
Mike Kaercher-Umlaut, Berlin, April 2021
Tracklist
| 1. | despot (santa barbaria) | 10:28 |
| 2. | pictophagos | 4:19 |
| 3. | icario | 2:36 |
| 4. | wundfieber | 4:22 |
| 5. | feenstaub | 0:55 |
| 6. | nondromanon | 5:48 |
| 7. | pelorin | 2:56 |
| 8. | irden | 12:32 |
Credits
°Prismatic Ceremony° was performed and arranged by Zebularin.
Recorded by Daniel Vujanic @ Atelier Ka-Ha, Bubenbad and Electric Park in Stuttgart in 2020.
Composed, mixed and edited by Daniel Vujanic.
Zebularin typography by Felix Neumann.
Collages by Daniel Vujanic.
Layout and design by Ross Scott-Buccleuch.
Zebularin is:
Peter Bone: piano, rhodes piano
Daniel Kartmann: drumkit, percussion, vibraphone and hammered dulcimer
Ruediger Kurz: double-bass
Heiner Stilz: woodwinds
Bernadette Vujanic: additional field recordings
Daniel Vujanic: guitars, synthesizers, electronics, field recordings and audio manipulation
This is Zebularin Vol.4
Thank you: Ross, Lucia, Seppo, Yoshihiro, Felix and Steve.
