Felix Laband’s The Soft White Hand is the masterwork of an artist who expresses himself through musical and artistic collage acting together to reinterpret his sources and to express significant elements of his own personal story.
Released by Munich-based Compost Records, the 14-track album is Laband’s first full-length offering since the critically acclaimed Deaf Safari in 2015. It is heralded by the single “Derek and Me”, and is being pressed on vinyl for distribution globally.
In The Soft White Hand Laband works with source materials that will be familiar to those who know his previous four records – Thin Shoes in June (2001), 4/4 Down the Stairs (2002), Dark Days Exit (2005) and especially Deaf Safari which reached deep into the South Africa scene and its political culture to inspire its vocal and music sampling. However, the disengagement he felt from his homeland during his latest album’s creation – an abiding sense of untethered-ness to place and space, exquisitely rendered in tracks like “Death of a Migrant” – is perceptible in Laband’s desire to illuminate instead aspects of his own life.
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OMG! Typical sensitive down tempo school from Vienna! Full of emotions, full of life with live instruments. Paul Nawrata is new the one and only Ennio Morricone! Good for us! :) So well for my lounge sets for this strange autumn... Big Up! and cheeers from Prague! Myclick aka DJ Face
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So great, stunning music and so sad news about the genius behind it. Rest in Peace, Rainer Buchmüller!
I´ve written some words (in German) about this one: https://www.byte.fm/blog/rezensionen/various-artists-future-sounds-of-kraut-ii-rezension-141274/ dirkdomin