Oberlin - grauer morgen, ungewisse bilder
Timeless currents flowing in undisturbed pathways while civilizations have come and gone. The energy that makes everything continues on. The sounds of Oberlin mirror these thoughts. Creative beauty finding music as a vessel, beats and rhythms eventually leaving at light speed, the beginning has circled around. Now the instruments used to explore vast distances are left in dusty deterioration. Oberlin gathers what still can make sound and coerces the ever flowing sonic beauty through them. This time, guitars, pianos and recorders are not pushed to play faster and more technical, they are simply conduits for a natural energy that has existed long before. The most natural and simple beauties are built upon fallen high towers and broken walls of glass. Oberlin explores the aftermath, altered aural landscapes growing sonic vines on crumbled dreams.
Oberlin is the project of Alexander Holtz. His composition titled "Grauer Morgen, Ungewisse Bilder" is one of the later offerings in a lengthy discography. With over thirty five minutes divided among four tracks, sounds sit thick in the conscious and ethereal in feelings. A connection to natural serenity helps build swelling contentment. Moments when you realize how beautiful all that surrounds you really is, the brief time in between onslaughts of man made devices of progress. A surge of raw opulence from a world both evolving and decaying through existence. Oberlin is consistent within this composition and with offerings both before and after Grauer Morgen, Ungewisse Bilder. This helps explain why very few physical copies remain in many of Oberlin's catalog.
Grauer Morgen, Ungewisse Bilder is a Cosmic Winnetou release. Both Oberlin and Cosmic Winnetou are from Germany and physical copies of this tape will come from there. Currently this release is sold out from the label, but there are some remianing from Oberlin's bandcamp page. Well worth the time to listen and explore, not just this release, but everything.
Links
Cosmic Winnetou site - bandcamp
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