Its been a 3 year love affair between Tirk and the four piece, Milan based, sonic experimentalists, Krautrock inspired, muso heads The Love Supreme. The band pool their influences from many sources. Early Italian electronic pioneers such as Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna, Krautrock and their unfeasibly large & varied, vinyl record collection. The bands method of composition comes with a sonic-laboratory ethos with equal measures of real instruments and vintage synthesizers. This can be seen on the pulsating opener ‘Elsewhere Once More’, the Workman like, arrpegiated ‘Tiefferre’ and the robo-tin-can musings of ‘Alles Liebe’. The early 1970’s, Krautrock pioneers Faust, Can and Amon Duul II and the sounds of the Tangerine Dream ‘pink years’ period also weave their fabric through the motorik tracks such as ‘Boy’, ‘Rocquet’ and ‘The Parrot’ All compass points don’t necessarily lead to Deutschland though. The production retains an Italian polish throughout and the albums peppier tracks hark back to early 1980’s New York and things CBGBs. ‘Gold Dust’ and the highly accessible ‘Waiting For the Love’ feature vocals from UK-based Ben Smith (Fug, Nuphonic) and grooves and arrangements that wouldn’t be amiss on an early Blondie album. Recent single ‘Sugar’ features a foot-stomping single note bass, underpinning Talking Heads rhythms and synthesizers. Ben’s staccato, punchy, on-the-beat vocal just adding just enough flavor as to not interfere with the groove.
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