Zenaari Mix 013 - Efdemin by BASSIANI

Zenaari's Podcast is back with a very special number, and this one’s from German juggernaut Efdemin. Phillip Sollmann’s nefarious allonym claims a well-deserved space on many a record cover and many a flyer. So large is his footprint that now, years since he first picked up a piece of hardware, or even started building his own, he’s largely liberated from the real world constraints many younger artists face. With nothing left to prove, and all this newfound freedom comes the space to truly probe the possibilities of sound in all its dimensions. This method is tried and tested (think 2019’s New Atlantis), but with each passing year the road travelled gets longer and no less full of surprises. It’s all down to his highly personal and off-centre approach - to be sure, he’s just as comfortable with feel-good techno (and his unconventional treatments make an appearance there too), but the real magic happens without preconceived ideas about genre or format, and the result is both organic and capable of opening doors no-one ever knew existed. Zenaari Mix 013 is a mind-maze in sound, from gentle piano and theremin allusions, to spoken narratives and dialogues that anticipate the world to come, and of course, there are Sollmann’s beloved bells. This is fresh ground trodden, Efdemin bravely charging into the unknown, a strange and spiritual palette of sounds from one of electronic music’s most iconoclastic figures.

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Rain tree crow - I drink to forget
Nuno Canavarro - Bruma
Hiver - 83-84
Luigi Nono - Das atmende Klarsein
Luigi Ceccarelli - Birds
Jonty Harrison - Klang
Brunhild Ferrari & Jim O'Rourke - Tranquilles Impatiences
Nika Son - Drift
Cergio Prudencio - Otra Ciudad II
Ash Ra Tempel -Le Sourire Volé
Blue Gene Tyranny - Remembering, from Mary Ashley's "My Song"
Dolde - Hitokoi
Reckno - Fallacy
Will Guthrie - Catlike
Jeff Mills - future speech
Holzt - Mimei
Monolake - Cyan
Efdemin - Oh, lovely appearance of death
François Bayle - Grande Polyphonie
David Behrman - Leapday night
Endurance - Crest
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - Love without sound
Mike Parker - Voiceprint
Men with secrets - 4th Dimension Signal
Batu - Don´t
Konrad Sprenger - Unreleased
Cleric and Setaoc Mass featuring John C. Lilly - Altered States
Evan Parker - Pulse and circulation of blood
Jeroen Search - Unstruck Sound
Popol Buh - Im Reich der Schatten
Bobby Brown - My Hawaiian Home
Modular Organ System (live in Nürnberg - unreleased)
Terre Theamlitz - Liberation model
Gregg Kowalsky - Pulse Wave and Mouth Harp for Anton Bruhin
Michel Redolfi - Deep Blue Silence
Nuno Canavarro - Untitled
Michel Redolfi - Blue Horizon
Joe Jones - Fluxus Meditation
El Mal - Path
Maryanne Amacher - Synaptic Island
Terre Thaemlitz - chng yourlove
Sensorama - Aspirin