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Peace

by Guenter Schlienz

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colin simpson
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colin simpson A gentle masterpiece. Favorite track: Epidaurus.
Rinchen Choesang
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Rinchen Choesang Rindenburg ends his comment with ‘Wonderful’. I would add stunning, radiant, inventive, immersive and meditative.

Guenter is definitely a master of eliciting aural bliss from his synths.

A stunning ambient release!!
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Rindenberg The magic of Guenter Schlienz works lies in his ability to make synths come to life. They start talking, with each other, with you, ascending, descending and finally transcending your soul so that your whole self becomes melody and oscillation. On Peace they sing marvellous melodies, creating a garden of sounds and introspections, calming, still, yet moving, just as the light of the moon in the ripples of a lake. An aural meditation, a work of beauty and a taste of divine calmness. Wonderful! Favorite track: Powdered Stars Lightning Inaudible Noises.
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about

Over several years, Guenter Schlienz has graced labels such as Constellation Tatsu, Sacred Phrases, S.I.N.K. CDs, SicSic, Preservation so we are very excited here at Rural Colours to be added to that list with his latest work Peace.

After noticing that several friends had begun to end emails marked 'Peace', Guenter Schlienz, ever full of questions, started to ponder on the meaning of the word in this context. Around the same time he started to read Henry Miller's book 'The Collossus of Maroussi' and was intrigued by a couple of paragraphs devoted to exactly this question: what is "the meaning of peace". He came to the conclusion that there is much more to "peace" than just the absence of war. The albums track titles are words by Henry Miller, and the work is Guenter's humble attempt to gather sounds and atmospheres around those lines.

Using modular synths combined with tape loops, analog and digital delays, vintage electronic organ and guitar, Schlienz works within a romantically inward looking framework, creating music that comes from deep within. His compositions reflect themes of tenderness, alienation and homecoming and feature a range of guest musicians including Masako Kamikawa (piano on 'Reverberation of the Pandemonium') and Niko Lazarakopoulos (guitar on 'Faint Whispers') and even an anonymous busker from the streets of Stuttgart on 'Who Put the Demons There?'

credits

released August 22, 2017

recorded 2016-2017 using synthesizer and tape
machines . niko plays guitar on "faint whispers",
masako plays piano on "reverberation of the
pandemonium". mastered by niko .

many thanks to niko, masako and jonathan!

inspired by henry miller's book "the collossus of
maroussi". / "i never knew the meaning of peace
until i arrived at epidaurus ".

Artwork by Katie English / This is rural colours 82 / vote for us

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