One of our favourite albums of the era, at long last re-pressed on vinyl...
'Silur' was the third 'proper' album from Tarwater, the duo of Berndt Jestram and Ronald Lippok (To Rococo Rot) and to many was the pinnacle of their lengthy recording career. Although in recent years the duo have angled towards more of a 'pop' sound, back in 1998 when 'Silur' appeared it genuinely shook up the indie rock world with it's fusion of melancholy slow-core, electronic soundscapes and the kind of smoky jazz-based looped you would more likely have expected to hear on an experimental library record.
'The Watersample', for instance, takes a loungey low-slung sample (think Broadcast...) and then lavishes Ronald Lippok's signature near spoken-word vocals over it, while the gorgeous 'Ford' utilises a looping synthesizer to build up a glorious pop song worthy of standing up against anything To Rococo Rot ever put their name to.
Basically with all that electronic knowhow and songwriting expertise this duo set the scene alight with 'Silur' and it's an album that still manages to sound hugely enjoyable, almost twenty years later. So, so good...
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One of our favourite albums of the era, at long last re-pressed on vinyl...
'Silur' was the third 'proper' album from Tarwater, the duo of Berndt Jestram and Ronald Lippok (To Rococo Rot) and to many was the pinnacle of their lengthy recording career. Although in recent years the duo have angled towards more of a 'pop' sound, back in 1998 when 'Silur' appeared it genuinely shook up the indie rock world with it's fusion of melancholy slow-core, electronic soundscapes and the kind of smoky jazz-based looped you would more likely have expected to hear on an experimental library record.
'The Watersample', for instance, takes a loungey low-slung sample (think Broadcast...) and then lavishes Ronald Lippok's signature near spoken-word vocals over it, while the gorgeous 'Ford' utilises a looping synthesizer to build up a glorious pop song worthy of standing up against anything To Rococo Rot ever put their name to.
Basically with all that electronic knowhow and songwriting expertise this duo set the scene alight with 'Silur' and it's an album that still manages to sound hugely enjoyable, almost twenty years later. So, so good...
One of our favourite albums of the era, at long last re-pressed on vinyl...
'Silur' was the third 'proper' album from Tarwater, the duo of Berndt Jestram and Ronald Lippok (To Rococo Rot) and to many was the pinnacle of their lengthy recording career. Although in recent years the duo have angled towards more of a 'pop' sound, back in 1998 when 'Silur' appeared it genuinely shook up the indie rock world with it's fusion of melancholy slow-core, electronic soundscapes and the kind of smoky jazz-based looped you would more likely have expected to hear on an experimental library record.
'The Watersample', for instance, takes a loungey low-slung sample (think Broadcast...) and then lavishes Ronald Lippok's signature near spoken-word vocals over it, while the gorgeous 'Ford' utilises a looping synthesizer to build up a glorious pop song worthy of standing up against anything To Rococo Rot ever put their name to.
Basically with all that electronic knowhow and songwriting expertise this duo set the scene alight with 'Silur' and it's an album that still manages to sound hugely enjoyable, almost twenty years later. So, so good...