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Release: 09-06-2023
JeGong return with their second full-length album which sees them continue their mesmerising musical journey inspired by the spirit of krautrock, early electronic music, pulsating ambient and experimental rock. With “The Complex Inbetween”, percussionist Dahm Majuri Cipolla (Mono, Watter) and bass/synths-player & guitarist Reto Mader (Sum Of R, Ural Umbo) put a dazzling spin on the timeless music of genre innovators like Can, Faust and Neu!, incorporating noisier and more abrasive elements to create a mental odyssey into the uncanny. Born from the collision of the most unreal moments of Mader’s free-flowing musical associations with Cipolla’s stick-wielding hands, these eight new compositions form the duo’s own mythical realm; their act of meditation. As the cradle of electronic music, krautrock is often viewed in terms of the mechanical rather than the human, yet Mader and Cipolla manager to uncover a human side that has always been present in the music of their forebears; atmospheric drone elements, evoking dark feelings, driving beats, resonating rhythms, desolate moods, shuffling footsteps in the dark of night and hypnotizing mellotron sounds are all combined into a deeply ‘human’ communal obsession. These two experienced musicians have a profound knowledge of their source of inspiration as well as tremendous skills in applying its principles, as cinephiles and soundtrack lovers with a strong sense for moods and emotions.
