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SCHNELLERTOLLERMEIER Shadow Web

Year2026
FormatCD
StyleRock
AvailabilityAvailable on request
14.70 €Buy

Description

● Andi Schnellmann : Bass● Manuel Troller : Guitars, Drum Programming● David Meier : Drums, Percussion



● After years of extensive touring, Schnellertollermeier return with a new double LP: 'Shadow Web' marks the opening of a new chapter in the band's 20-year history. Following the raw directness of their last releases, this ambiguity and permeability comes as a surprise: the new album intensifies the atmosphere from the very first sound — it radiates clarity in every fibre, and yet leaves so much open. On 'Shadow Web,' the present circulates, expanding in waves.

● Where Schnellertollermeier have previously pushed walls of sound from A to B with great decisiveness, dynamism and force, on the new album they bring out entirely different aspects of clarity and control: having so far moved primarily within a linear sense of time with their energetic, sharply structured, at times brutal minimalism, with 'Shadow Web' they turn towards a non-linear understanding of time. The new music is marked by softness and inner calm; it relies on the power of slowness and has the courage to work inward rather than forward — the courage, too, to trust in the unspectacular and the uncertain. After all, a garden grows even when you don't pull at the seedlings.

● With this, Schnellertollermeier set a pulsating sound field of radiant warmth and improvisational playfulness against the brutality, coldness and strained certainty of our current state of the world. This inward-resting trust has the potential to activate a considered optimism in listeners.

● In that way, then, that Missing Times, their ninth full-length release, is their ultimate statement, as displaced rhythmic structures weave amongst each other in the foreground. Ghost Rhythms seamlessly create sonic quilts of interweaving riffage and soaring melodies. Their sound straddles genres, wearing inspiration from modern avant-leaning influences like the Claudia Quintet or Bad Plus — both ensembles that feature jazz-associated musicians reaching toward rock, pop, and classical influences — as easily as it does vintage progressive rock ensembles Soft Machine or Magma, particularly in their propensity toward rhythmic experimentation and flexibility.

● As on previous albums, there are only minimal overdubs — most of the music was recorded live and simultaneously, which highlights one of the band's greatest strengths: the winding and unwinding of monumentally long arcs. The music continuously spirals its way into the depths — paradoxically, this generates a recurring thermal, upward energy across the broad arc of the four long-form tracks.

Titles

01. Epoxide
02. Shadow Web
03. Shelter
04. hrough the Glass Walls

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