'...When I make music, I'm always trying to create a temporary refuge for myself, a refuge from the increasingly frightening world out there. A kind of remote island where I can hide, switch off for a while, feel at peace. In any case, I feel inner peace when making this music, and I hope, in some way, it does the same for you...'
Nurnberg's Lars Fischer returns under his Klangkollektor alias for another unhurried snapshop of horizontal bliss. Perfectly timed for summertime hammock dwelling, the four tracks here epitomize the languid, dubbed-out organic ambience that the Trak Trak drummer has conjured up in his own singular style.
Taking in toybox percussion and smothering it in emotive piano chords and punctuated electrics, opener "Ferry From Torkwrith" sets the harbour-like scene evocatively, while "Morning Hour" - also utilizing piano, drumbox and electronics - is a moving dawn chorus of sensuous moods and delicate melodies.
"Starlings" perfectly balances reverb, echo, atmosphere and space to create its dreamlike sensibilities; before "Isle Of Stonsey" takes on board slide guitar and Balearic flavours that'll keep you resided in your hammock in a semi-awake slumber till the sun drops beneath the horizon and the air turns a little cooler.
So brilliantly constructed with such a delicate yet deliberate hand, "Dubtapes Vol. 2" is a gently shimmering ambient masterpiece.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Ferry From Torkwrith
A2. Morning Hour
B1. Starlings
B2. Isle Of Stonsey