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01. Samuel Rohrer - Oxygen Beats
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02. Samuel Rohrer - Bodylanguage
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03. Samuel Rohrer - Serotonin
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04. Samuel Rohrer - Ctenophora
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05. Samuel Rohrer - Window Pain
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06. Samuel Rohrer - Slow Fox
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07. Samuel Rohrer - Treehouse
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08. Samuel Rohrer - Human Regression
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09. Samuel Rohrer - Ctenophora Var.
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10. Samuel Rohrer - Radar Reflector
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11. Samuel Rohrer - Ceremonism
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ARTIST
ROHRER, SAMUEL
TITLE
Hungry Ghosts
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ARJUNAMUSIC
CATALOG #
AMEL 723LP
AMEL 723LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
9/30/2022
With his Arjunamusic label and a growing catalog of category-defying releases,
Samuel Rohrer
continues to quietly, yet confidently, make a name for himself as a genuinely unique figure within the European electronic music realm. Over the past decade he has assembled a repertoire of music that fills a sadly neglected gap in the modern musical landscape. That is to say, he has made a number of "electronically"-aided works that never seem to make "electronic-ism" the main selling point or raison d'ĂȘtre. His latest solo album,
Hungry Ghosts
, again shows the high quality of sonic design that can be achieved by conceptualizing musical passages as living, breathing entities rather than as signposts to some still distant reality. Maybe more so than any of Rohrer's solo records to date,
Hungry Ghosts
is the one that most unambiguously displays the artist as a kind of inspired sound "cultivator" or landscaper rather than just a straightforward "producer". The emphasis here seems to be biological growth processes rendered in musical form, and in fact some track titles namechecking the biodiversity of the external world ("Slow Fox", "Ctenophora") and neurochemistry ("Serotonin") lend some additional credence to this interpretation. As with previous outings, Rohrer starts with his skills as a genre-resistant percussionist and builds from there, with dense clusters of drum hits and icy cymbal exclamations leading the way into a wide-open atmosphere full of fragmented phrases, marked with strange reversals or compressions of time. The percussive portions and other ambiences merge together in such a way that the latter seems like a kind of shifting, holographic camouflage for the former. Rohrer's already established ambiguity and mystery are the moods that permeate throughout, to be sure, but there are also surprising moments of humorous whimsy (the flourishes of cartoon mischief and teasing silences on the tracks "Human Regression" and "Bodylanguage"), reverence (the optimistic organ swells and steady sequencer guiding "Ceremonism"), and meditative focus (the slow-motion spectral waltz of "Treehouse"). Also notable here are very brief etudes, such as "Window Pain," whose dark, lush ebb and flow actually seem tailored to repeated or looped listening. The material is recorded solo and in a "live/no overdubs" mode, giving it the feel of a well-rehearsed ensemble. And here you come full circle to the idea of "electronic music" mentioned at the beginning here: instead of making you feel that you are in the presence of some fully-realized form brought back from "the future," Rohrer invites you instead to witness fascinating processes of transition and mutation.
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