Salamanda – Ashbalkum

Cologne-based artist Peter Graf York’s Expedition Bahn feels like a modern stew of K. Leimer’s minimalist Palace of Lights output, Mad Professor’s dubby studio wizardry, and Dieter Moebius’ far-flung electronic explorations. Stylistically separate track to track, the album displays an openness to genre and form. “Welcome to the curious world of Peter Graf York: a world full of city centre safaris and epic train journeys, Soviet cosmonauts and Oakland rappers, filtered synths and plucked mbiras. It’s a wild ride inspired as much by Jamaican dub sorcery as by playful minimalism outta the Pacific Northwest. Many of these tracks were composed on the hoof – literally en route across sections of the ever-reliable Deutsche Bahn network…”
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Recommended – Full Listen
A1 Aphelion
A2 Expedition Bahn
A3 What Happened
A4 VW Polo
A5 Concav
A6 E-Mail
B1 Justice
B2 Indonesia
B3 Switchmode
B4 Jahlette Sensor Excel
B5 Last Transmission Of Vladimir Komarov
B6 Marshall Plan
Design – Fabian Kretz
Liner Notes – Fizzy Veins
Mastered By – Wouter Brandenburg
Gear used: Tascam MIDISTUDIO 644, MPC1000, Roland JX-3P, MODE MACHINES DT200, Electro-Harmonix MEMORY BOY analog delay, Nord Drum 3P, MacBook Pro, Logic Pro 9