{"title":"Harmonious Thelonious","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHarmonious Thelonious, the electronic project by Stefan Schwander (aka Antonelli), combines the reduced serial structures of American minimalist music with African rhythms and European sequencing. Without any ideological agenda, the Düsseldorf-based musician blends gripping harmonic and rhythmic patterns to create an entirely new kind of\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eclub music. He conjures up hypnotic voodoo atmospheres - danceable, challenging, and melodically playful.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"harmonious-thelonious-international-dance-record-2","title":"Harmonious Thelonious - International Dance Record 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist: Harmonious Thelonious\u003cbr\u003eTitle: International Dance Record 2\u003cbr\u003eFormat: 12“ \/ Digital\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: 26 April 2019\u003cbr\u003eLabel: ITALIC\u003cbr\u003eCat. 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The brute force beats his previous albums have been replaced by simple rhythm box grooves. They are repeatedly joined by short highlife guitar themes, bright flute melodies and feathery keyboard hooks. Africa is also only partially a reference for this unclassifiable and cheerful dance sound, which is entitled \"International Dance Record\" for good reasons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist: Harmonious Thelonious\u003cbr\u003eTitle: International Dance Record\u003cbr\u003eFormat: LP+CD\u003cbr\u003eLabel: ITALIC\u003cbr\u003eCat. 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The Düsseldorfer Stefan Schwander would agree with this statement by the avantgarde jazz great, though he would not necessarily sign his name to it. He also speaks to people through music. Yet he also likes to let music talk to music. Since 2008, as Harmonious Thelonious, on numerous EPs and two albums, he blends the reduced patterns and structures of American minimalist music with African, Latin American and Caribbean rhythms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor his new work \"Santos\", which he sees as an LP with a unified concept, he embarked on a mental journey to the north of the African continent and became entranced by Moroccan trance music. The resulting pieces are light, with traces of pop, interweaving the atmospheres of the Master Musicians Of Joujouka and Gnawa music with the driving force of techno. This time Schwander invited a handful of guest musicians to serve as sound sources. The Berliner Ghazi Barakat, former bass player of Stereo Total and man behind the psychedelic experimental project Pharoah Chromium, contributed modified sounds from his Moroccan flute. A second guest musician is the Cologne-based composer Volker Zander, who has long played double bass and electric bass with Calexico. For songs like \"Mountains\" or \"Belloumi\" he played a melody on the Turkish Tambur, lending an oriental flair to the vital rhythms of the tracks. The intricate rhythmic patterns also incorporate instruments such as banjo, mandolin and Afro-Cuban drums, played by the percussionist Stefan Suhr, who studied Afro-Cuban ritual drumming in Cuba.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSchwander's electronic sequencing blurs these organic sources and brings them into a fluid dialogue with his electronic ideas. For a piece like \"Rendezvous of the Dead\", for example, Harmonious Thelonious projected himself out of the studio onto the Djemaa el Fna square in Marrakech. Here, every evening after sunset, local musicians meet and play themselves into a frenzy on distorted mandolins. Harmonious Thelonious translates this dream into a quaking dance monster whose home might be a techno club with an experimental sonic approach. Of course, most of the pieces of \"Santos\" are heavily danceable, although this time Harmonious Thelonious' tracks roll a little slower than previously. Their rugged beauty has also given way to a very smooth sound. His music, however, has lost none of its complexity. The many voices speak together, propelling each other toward something that traverses traditional genre boundaries, creating a playful trance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover of \"Santos\" underscores this: It is a collage designed by the artist himself, depicting his notion of an all-star band. Everyone must decipher for themselves exactly who is to be found there. 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