View basket “From The Known” has been added to your basket. 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 Luca Yupanqui Conversations Electronica | Sacred Bones Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th September 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Luca Yupanqui Conversations £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Sacred Bones Records SKU: SBR294LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Floating Points Kuiper Electronica | Pluto | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 22nd July 2016 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Floating Points Kuiper £10.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Pluto SKU: FP2 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 22nd July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Telex SEX Electronica | Mute | 1LP Released 22nd September 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Telex SEX £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Mute SKU: TELEX3 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Colleen A Flame My Love, A Frequency Electronica | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 20th October 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Colleen A Flame My Love, A Frequency £18.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL449LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View LCD Soundsystem Electric Lady Sessions Electronica | Columbia | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 4th February 2019 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders LCD Soundsystem Electric Lady Sessions £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Columbia SKU: 19075892161 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 4th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Orb, The No Sounds Are Out of Bounds Electronica | Cooking Vinyl | 2LP Released 22nd June 2018 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Orb, The No Sounds Are Out of Bounds £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP711 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 22nd June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Squarepusher Damogen Furies Electronica | Warp | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 15th April 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Squarepusher Damogen Furies £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP264 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 15th April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Death And Vanilla The Tenant Electronica | Fire Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 20th February 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Death And Vanilla The Tenant £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Fire Records SKU: FAME383LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gas Narkopop Electronica | Kompakt | 3LP, Includes CD Released 21st April 2017 £59.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gas Narkopop £59.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Kompakt SKU: Kompakt371 Formats: 3LP, Includes CD Released Date: 21st April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fatboy Slim Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars (15th Anniversary) Electronica | Skint | 2LP Released 28th May 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fatboy Slim Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars (15th Anniversary) £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Skint SKU: BRASSIC104LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 28th May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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