Mosaike der Imagination: :: Ondarock reviews

In 1959, with this phrase he kicked off “at the borders of reality”, a television series focused on science fiction stories created by Rod Serling, where they took turns illustrious writers such as Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson as scriptors, a journey into the unknown that he brought back to my mind listening to the recent album of Baldruin.
Johannes Schebler is the German musician who behind the enigmatic features of Baldruin dispensation original compositions, where electronics, folk, progressive reminiscences, World-Music and an elegantly poetic romanticism merge for an unbearable and indefinite imaginary soundtrack of an alien, unexplored world.

“Mosaike der Imagination” is not only the last of a series of albums Electro-ACUSTIC-Ambient by the German artist, but also one of his most successful and enjoyable sound mosaics, eccentric and impersoncrutable, but also intense and solid as an unlikely symphony made up of fragments and sound clippings. The seventeen chapters of the album are as many windows on a large and historically rooted music scene in the dark-folk and experimental tradition, fascinating pieces of a work with multiple nuances.
Atypical arches of arches changed by metal and electronic timbres (“Gemeinsam Hindurch”); Sitar who marry Synth and Oboe in a carousel of sounds that create a bridge between East and West with elegant BariCchisms (“Innerlich Außerhalb”); Vintage keyboards and naif They duet with acoustic and neoclassical tools for a rich baroque madrigal (“stimme des wegelagers”): these are some of the exquisite instrumental intuitions of a disc not easy to classify.

It is not easy to describe the game of mirrors created by the vibraphone in “fantasiegebilde” or the obsessive ticking of the keys of the typewriter that dictates the times of “Der Verwunschene Hain”; The title of the album partly helps, but “Mosaike der Imagination” is full of unexpected narrative: column-like choirs (“Mit Verbundenen Augen”), tribal and multi-ethnic dances (“Purpur-Trank”), psychedelic and cosmic mantra (“Hinein, Hinaus, Hinüber”).
Baldruin's music is not the whim of an extravagant musician, but a cultured sample of that scene underground German where electronics and folk travel in the same direction: I challenge anyone to find in the seventeen short reiterations or sound speculations. “Mosaike der Imagination” is not an album of potential soundtracks for an imaginary film (“IM Sternstrom”, “Blick Nach Drüben”), is itself the film, the story of a place where everything is possible, an unexplored dimension that frees the imagination and restores the magic of European experimental music.