SELECTED STUDIES VOL 1 (LP + CD) by LLOYD COLE & HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS

Lloyd Cole, this most ingenious of British singer-songwriters, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a patriarch of German electronic music, team up fos this collaborative album!Both artists focus on electronic sounds in a selection of succinct, direct pieces, free of musical garrulousness. Cole neither sings nor plays guitar and Roedelius rarely touches the keys of his grand piano. Instead, both musicians have developed a subtle soundscape which only drifts towards pure noise on one track, “Wandelbar”. All of the other “studies” on the album move within a vast spectrum of harmonic wonder and rhythmic stepping stones. Tracklisting: 1 Pastoral 2 Selbsportrait-Reich 3 Wandelbar 4 Still Life with Kannyu 5 TangoLargo 6 Orschel 7 HIQS 8 Fehmarn F/O 9 Virginie L 10 Lullerby