Shining Force [12"]

Johannes Volk - Shining Force [12"]

Following Extra Dimensions and Lightweave, this third instalment finds Johannes Volk continuing his particular way of making machine music feel strangely human and vice versa. "Shining Force" glides across an unfamiliar planetary surface, optical illusions and physical anomalies slowly interfere with the senses. "Switching From Bicycle to Spaceship" does exactly what it says on the tin, more or less: sheds gravity and quietly leaves the atmosphere behind. "Hidden In Dark" belongs to a more immediate kind of archaeology: fog, strobes, bodies and inexplicably intense emotions. On "Back Alley Dancers", vocal fragments, pitched, delayed, reversed and removed from their original meaning trigger half-memories of youth, and of encountering music and culture before you quite understood it. "Drumatury" dispenses with introspection and gets down to elementary forces. Morphing bass drums meet a Chicago jacking snare-roll massacre.

Tracklist
A1. Shining Force (5:58)
A2. Switching From Bicycle To Spaceship (6:14)
B1. Hidden In Dark (5:45)
B2. Back Alley Dancers (5:05)
B3. Drumaturgy (4:04)