Lightwave
Cités Analogues
Boomkat Product Review:
1st vinyl edition of a brilliant but overlooked 1988 kosmiche and concrète trip by french duo Lightwave, aptly brought to attention by kraut gatekeepers Bureau B, and especially tipped for Eno, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Claude Eloy or 0PN fiends
After flexing their wings with debut ‘Modular Experiments’ (1987), Christoph Harbonnier & Christian Wittman continued their arcing synth trajectory as Lightwave with the glorious, expansive hour of finely layered and dreamlike flights of the imagination found in 1988’s ‘Cités Analogue’. Crystallised in hyperprismic, refractive vignettes and sprawling out to a pair of stunning widescreen works that account for some half of the album, the albums sees Lightwave deploy a complex set-up of RSF, ARP, Roland, and Oberheim modular systems, mixed on A&H 12/2 and recorded to tape Revox B77 tape machine, at the service of painting grandly cinematic visions on the back of eyelids and open imaginations. It’s genuinely a bit perplexing as to how and why material of this kind of quality has remained out of sight for so long. But here it is, ready to wow and seduce a whole raft of new ears to their particular brand of analogue wonders.
Still evidently prizing the power and enigma of analogue synths at a time when prevailing trends had shifted to digital, Lightwave follow their instincts with rewarding results that should now get their time in the sun. The smooth take-off of from a frisson of fine meshed synths and locations recordings in ‘Airport’ hits at a certain poetic quality of Luc Ferrari’s concrète and establishes a narrative logic that flows thru the almost Radigue-likepartials to the synth passage of ‘Correspondence pour ailleurs’ to the rugged rhythmic sophistication on ‘Le Parvis’. From here in it’s all lift and scalp tingles, taking in two expansive stunners in an ‘Agora’ recalling Jean-Claude Eloy bits, and the proper TD-skooled impulses of ‘Cités Analogues’, via shearing, banking organisms ‘Polycentre’ and the heart-in-mouth soar of ‘Ophelia’.
A must check for all self-respecting cosmonauts!
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Boomkat Product Review:
1st vinyl edition of a brilliant but overlooked 1988 kosmiche and concrète trip by french duo Lightwave, aptly brought to attention by kraut gatekeepers Bureau B, and especially tipped for Eno, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Claude Eloy or 0PN fiends
After flexing their wings with debut ‘Modular Experiments’ (1987), Christoph Harbonnier & Christian Wittman continued their arcing synth trajectory as Lightwave with the glorious, expansive hour of finely layered and dreamlike flights of the imagination found in 1988’s ‘Cités Analogue’. Crystallised in hyperprismic, refractive vignettes and sprawling out to a pair of stunning widescreen works that account for some half of the album, the albums sees Lightwave deploy a complex set-up of RSF, ARP, Roland, and Oberheim modular systems, mixed on A&H 12/2 and recorded to tape Revox B77 tape machine, at the service of painting grandly cinematic visions on the back of eyelids and open imaginations. It’s genuinely a bit perplexing as to how and why material of this kind of quality has remained out of sight for so long. But here it is, ready to wow and seduce a whole raft of new ears to their particular brand of analogue wonders.
Still evidently prizing the power and enigma of analogue synths at a time when prevailing trends had shifted to digital, Lightwave follow their instincts with rewarding results that should now get their time in the sun. The smooth take-off of from a frisson of fine meshed synths and locations recordings in ‘Airport’ hits at a certain poetic quality of Luc Ferrari’s concrète and establishes a narrative logic that flows thru the almost Radigue-likepartials to the synth passage of ‘Correspondence pour ailleurs’ to the rugged rhythmic sophistication on ‘Le Parvis’. From here in it’s all lift and scalp tingles, taking in two expansive stunners in an ‘Agora’ recalling Jean-Claude Eloy bits, and the proper TD-skooled impulses of ‘Cités Analogues’, via shearing, banking organisms ‘Polycentre’ and the heart-in-mouth soar of ‘Ophelia’.
A must check for all self-respecting cosmonauts!
Boomkat Product Review:
1st vinyl edition of a brilliant but overlooked 1988 kosmiche and concrète trip by french duo Lightwave, aptly brought to attention by kraut gatekeepers Bureau B, and especially tipped for Eno, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Claude Eloy or 0PN fiends
After flexing their wings with debut ‘Modular Experiments’ (1987), Christoph Harbonnier & Christian Wittman continued their arcing synth trajectory as Lightwave with the glorious, expansive hour of finely layered and dreamlike flights of the imagination found in 1988’s ‘Cités Analogue’. Crystallised in hyperprismic, refractive vignettes and sprawling out to a pair of stunning widescreen works that account for some half of the album, the albums sees Lightwave deploy a complex set-up of RSF, ARP, Roland, and Oberheim modular systems, mixed on A&H 12/2 and recorded to tape Revox B77 tape machine, at the service of painting grandly cinematic visions on the back of eyelids and open imaginations. It’s genuinely a bit perplexing as to how and why material of this kind of quality has remained out of sight for so long. But here it is, ready to wow and seduce a whole raft of new ears to their particular brand of analogue wonders.
Still evidently prizing the power and enigma of analogue synths at a time when prevailing trends had shifted to digital, Lightwave follow their instincts with rewarding results that should now get their time in the sun. The smooth take-off of from a frisson of fine meshed synths and locations recordings in ‘Airport’ hits at a certain poetic quality of Luc Ferrari’s concrète and establishes a narrative logic that flows thru the almost Radigue-likepartials to the synth passage of ‘Correspondence pour ailleurs’ to the rugged rhythmic sophistication on ‘Le Parvis’. From here in it’s all lift and scalp tingles, taking in two expansive stunners in an ‘Agora’ recalling Jean-Claude Eloy bits, and the proper TD-skooled impulses of ‘Cités Analogues’, via shearing, banking organisms ‘Polycentre’ and the heart-in-mouth soar of ‘Ophelia’.
A must check for all self-respecting cosmonauts!
Boomkat Product Review:
1st vinyl edition of a brilliant but overlooked 1988 kosmiche and concrète trip by french duo Lightwave, aptly brought to attention by kraut gatekeepers Bureau B, and especially tipped for Eno, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Claude Eloy or 0PN fiends
After flexing their wings with debut ‘Modular Experiments’ (1987), Christoph Harbonnier & Christian Wittman continued their arcing synth trajectory as Lightwave with the glorious, expansive hour of finely layered and dreamlike flights of the imagination found in 1988’s ‘Cités Analogue’. Crystallised in hyperprismic, refractive vignettes and sprawling out to a pair of stunning widescreen works that account for some half of the album, the albums sees Lightwave deploy a complex set-up of RSF, ARP, Roland, and Oberheim modular systems, mixed on A&H 12/2 and recorded to tape Revox B77 tape machine, at the service of painting grandly cinematic visions on the back of eyelids and open imaginations. It’s genuinely a bit perplexing as to how and why material of this kind of quality has remained out of sight for so long. But here it is, ready to wow and seduce a whole raft of new ears to their particular brand of analogue wonders.
Still evidently prizing the power and enigma of analogue synths at a time when prevailing trends had shifted to digital, Lightwave follow their instincts with rewarding results that should now get their time in the sun. The smooth take-off of from a frisson of fine meshed synths and locations recordings in ‘Airport’ hits at a certain poetic quality of Luc Ferrari’s concrète and establishes a narrative logic that flows thru the almost Radigue-likepartials to the synth passage of ‘Correspondence pour ailleurs’ to the rugged rhythmic sophistication on ‘Le Parvis’. From here in it’s all lift and scalp tingles, taking in two expansive stunners in an ‘Agora’ recalling Jean-Claude Eloy bits, and the proper TD-skooled impulses of ‘Cités Analogues’, via shearing, banking organisms ‘Polycentre’ and the heart-in-mouth soar of ‘Ophelia’.
A must check for all self-respecting cosmonauts!
Estimated Release Date: 24 January 2025
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
1st vinyl edition of a brilliant but overlooked 1988 kosmiche and concrète trip by french duo Lightwave, aptly brought to attention by kraut gatekeepers Bureau B, and especially tipped for Eno, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Claude Eloy or 0PN fiends
After flexing their wings with debut ‘Modular Experiments’ (1987), Christoph Harbonnier & Christian Wittman continued their arcing synth trajectory as Lightwave with the glorious, expansive hour of finely layered and dreamlike flights of the imagination found in 1988’s ‘Cités Analogue’. Crystallised in hyperprismic, refractive vignettes and sprawling out to a pair of stunning widescreen works that account for some half of the album, the albums sees Lightwave deploy a complex set-up of RSF, ARP, Roland, and Oberheim modular systems, mixed on A&H 12/2 and recorded to tape Revox B77 tape machine, at the service of painting grandly cinematic visions on the back of eyelids and open imaginations. It’s genuinely a bit perplexing as to how and why material of this kind of quality has remained out of sight for so long. But here it is, ready to wow and seduce a whole raft of new ears to their particular brand of analogue wonders.
Still evidently prizing the power and enigma of analogue synths at a time when prevailing trends had shifted to digital, Lightwave follow their instincts with rewarding results that should now get their time in the sun. The smooth take-off of from a frisson of fine meshed synths and locations recordings in ‘Airport’ hits at a certain poetic quality of Luc Ferrari’s concrète and establishes a narrative logic that flows thru the almost Radigue-likepartials to the synth passage of ‘Correspondence pour ailleurs’ to the rugged rhythmic sophistication on ‘Le Parvis’. From here in it’s all lift and scalp tingles, taking in two expansive stunners in an ‘Agora’ recalling Jean-Claude Eloy bits, and the proper TD-skooled impulses of ‘Cités Analogues’, via shearing, banking organisms ‘Polycentre’ and the heart-in-mouth soar of ‘Ophelia’.
A must check for all self-respecting cosmonauts!
Estimated Release Date: 24 January 2025
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
1st vinyl edition of a brilliant but overlooked 1988 kosmiche and concrète trip by french duo Lightwave, aptly brought to attention by kraut gatekeepers Bureau B, and especially tipped for Eno, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Claude Eloy or 0PN fiends
After flexing their wings with debut ‘Modular Experiments’ (1987), Christoph Harbonnier & Christian Wittman continued their arcing synth trajectory as Lightwave with the glorious, expansive hour of finely layered and dreamlike flights of the imagination found in 1988’s ‘Cités Analogue’. Crystallised in hyperprismic, refractive vignettes and sprawling out to a pair of stunning widescreen works that account for some half of the album, the albums sees Lightwave deploy a complex set-up of RSF, ARP, Roland, and Oberheim modular systems, mixed on A&H 12/2 and recorded to tape Revox B77 tape machine, at the service of painting grandly cinematic visions on the back of eyelids and open imaginations. It’s genuinely a bit perplexing as to how and why material of this kind of quality has remained out of sight for so long. But here it is, ready to wow and seduce a whole raft of new ears to their particular brand of analogue wonders.
Still evidently prizing the power and enigma of analogue synths at a time when prevailing trends had shifted to digital, Lightwave follow their instincts with rewarding results that should now get their time in the sun. The smooth take-off of from a frisson of fine meshed synths and locations recordings in ‘Airport’ hits at a certain poetic quality of Luc Ferrari’s concrète and establishes a narrative logic that flows thru the almost Radigue-likepartials to the synth passage of ‘Correspondence pour ailleurs’ to the rugged rhythmic sophistication on ‘Le Parvis’. From here in it’s all lift and scalp tingles, taking in two expansive stunners in an ‘Agora’ recalling Jean-Claude Eloy bits, and the proper TD-skooled impulses of ‘Cités Analogues’, via shearing, banking organisms ‘Polycentre’ and the heart-in-mouth soar of ‘Ophelia’.
A must check for all self-respecting cosmonauts!
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