Harmonious Thelonious - Background Noise (2018)

Crooked, grubbing rhythms and salty noise lashes laced with mesmerising melody, from Stefan Schwander’s Harmonious Thelonious...

In that so-stiff-it’s-funky style indigenous to artists form the Rühr, on Background Noise Schwander racks up the rugged push and pull of zig-zagging rhythms in Elegant, along with a hunched sort of dancehall budge akin to Tolouse Low Trax gear in Masch Masch, while the pulsating Italo arps and spindly figures of Train recall Konrad Kraft’s recently reissued Arctica ace from late ‘80s Düsseldorf, and Remi sounds like a stripped form of robotic ‘80s highlife.