All The Unknown Grandbrothers SKU: SLANG50330LP Barcode: 4250506837082 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: City Slang Released Date: 15th January 2021 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info On the leafy cover they invite the spectator to peer through the thick foliage of a hawthorn bush, seemingly powered by a similar sense of curiosity that informed this exploratory new record. Ditching the restrictions of their former setup, with their new record the Turkish-German/Swiss duo took a leap into the dense unknown—and landed on their feet. The album maps out a wide-open soundworld of compositional possibilities for pianist Erol Sarp and producer / electronic engineer Lukas Vogel, who have been putting their modern and unique electronic spin on prepared piano since first forming in 2012. Forgoing the need to play every single note live, this new album sees the pair juxtapose the old and new once again, venturing further into the electronic cosmos armed with a grand piano, self-built computer-controlled mechanics, and a new sense of latitude. The debut single and title track from the album “All The Unknown” starts out with the clanging percussive piano figures that have danced across Grandbrothers’ previous terrain, but grows with the intensity of high-octane electronica to cast out allusions of classical romance, guided by emotive, cascading keys that collide with stuttering digital percussion. Listen closely to this latest album and you can hear an old-school hip-hop beat enmeshed in melodic piano, or feel the cold rush of techno fly past at lightning speed. “We wanted to leave the lovely romantic piano music behind,” explains Sarp, whose affinity with dance music has always been an influence on his writing process. Motifs of club music creep subtly into ‘All The Unknown’’s impeccably textured palette, which nonetheless uses sounds found exclusively within the piano. These sounds and samples are triggered and collected using mechanics built by Vogel and placed inside the piano, then extracted, processed and shaped beyond their original identity to create alien beeps, beats and tones. Melded these with the organic piano sounds is what fuels Grandbrothers’ creativity. Sarp and Vogel met nearly a decade ago while studying audio and video engineering in Düsseldorf. Conceiving a project that would draw on Sarp’s piano skills while also providing a piano part for Vogel through bespoke programming and mechanical apparatus, Grandbrothers was formed. They brought their vision to life with debut album ‘Dilation’ in 2015, followed by the majestic ‘Open’; a swirling fusion of electronica and classical piano, which was released on City Slang in 2017. These days, with the pair no longer both residing in Düsseldorf, they have forged a new remote working relationship that involves a lot of back and forth and more time spent on developing ideas and producing. This new album documents that process. “The main difference compared to the last two albums, is that we set ourselves a rule that everything needed to be created on the instrument in that moment” explains Vogel. “But now that this rule is gone, we’ve started to produce or record things on the computer which means we can stack up more layers” Sarp surmises. “Previously, it has always just been me sitting at the piano playing, but now we have three or four piano parts together, which I wouldn’t be able to play at once as it’s too many notes; it just wouldn’t be possible as I only have ten fingers. This new method has opened up worlds and given so many more opportunities to write music.” Artist Grandbrothers Genre Electronica Label City Slang Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Howth What We See Umeboshi All the Unknown (YouTube) The Goat Paradox Four Rivers Shorelines Auberge Organism Silver Black Frost Unrest Mourning Express Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Electronica View Product Quick View Flume Things Don’t Always Go The Way You Plan Electronica | Transgressive | 1LP Released 17th November 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Flume Things Don’t Always Go The Way You Plan £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Transgressive SKU: TRANS718X Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jana Rush Painful Enlightenment Electronica | Planet Mu | 2LP Released 13th August 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jana Rush Painful Enlightenment £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Planet Mu SKU: ZIQ428 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 13th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Chemical Brothers, The Further Electronica | Parlophone | 2LP Released 20th April 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chemical Brothers, The Further £16.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Parlophone SKU: nn200656 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 20th April 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Trisomie 21 Million Lights Electronica | Play It Again Sam | 1LP Released 22nd September 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Trisomie 21 Million Lights £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Play It Again Sam SKU: BIAS76 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Four Tet New Energy Electronica | Text | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 2nd August 2019 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Four Tet New Energy £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Text SKU: TEXT046 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 2nd August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Love-Songs Nicht Nicht Electronica | Tapete | 1LP Released 12th June 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Love-Songs Nicht Nicht £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Tapete SKU: BB342LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jon Hopkins Singularity – Indies Only Electronica | Domino | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 1st May 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jon Hopkins Singularity – Indies Only £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP352X Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Beverly Glenn-Copeland Keyboard Fantasies Electronica | Transgressive | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 9th April 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Beverly Glenn-Copeland Keyboard Fantasies £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Transgressive SKU: TRANS460X Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th April 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dark Day Window Electronica | Dark Entries | 1LP Released 6th January 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dark Day Window £16.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Dark Entries SKU: DE006LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shades In Praise of Darkness Electronica | Caroline International | 1LP Released 7th September 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shades In Praise of Darkness £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Caroline International SKU: DBR034 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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