phasen

René Margraff · 2014

Sparse piano figures dissolve into slow-moving clouds of processed tone on this quietly absorbing release from the German electronic artist. Margraff works in the space between acoustic source and digital transformation, letting each phase shift feel earned rather than mechanical. The album moves with an unhurried internal logic, textures accumulating and receding like breath. The connection to the more delicate end of Berlin electroacoustic composition is there in the care given to each piano tone and its decay.