ROT

This is officially the first Schnitzler's album in solo. « Schwarz » was originally released under the name Eruption during recordings with ex-Cluster Roedelius & Moebius. Inovative from start to the end, "Rot" is the pearl of German early days in electronic / avant progressive music. The ambiences created are really haunted, soaring and weird. Globally we can considered this work as an original mixture between German's spacey (synth) rock music (in the genre of Schulze on his two first solo efforts) and contemporary electro- acoustic music of Tod Dockstader, Morton Subotnick. Difficult to describe in correct form the materials used here, probably a variety of electronic sources, notably from magnetic tapes but also a lot of feeback and amplifiers. Very cerebral, sometimes meditative and scary, this musical adventure is still modern. Each listening delivers new elements that we can't hear in one playing. Absolutely non mainstream, this music is not evident for everyone. However I highly recommend it for those who are familiar with experimental electronic music and RIO / avant prog. This is Schnitzler's first masterpiece.