To celebrate the release of their new album Schemes the post-krautrock trio Kreidler will perform at Berghain’s Kantine this September. They will be joined on stage by Bureau B label mates Saeko Killy.
On their ninth album for Bureau B, the internationally renowned Berlin/Düsseldorf-based outfit Kreidler focus on atmospheric soundscapes – of course maintaining their signature rhythmic groove, which on „Schemes“ is simply more buoyant and less insistent. Schemes is also characterised by the more pronounced use of nature/outdoor recordings. The track featuring Leo Garcia as a guest vocalist is based on just such a field recording.
With „Schemes“, Kreidler step into a more ambient space of possibilities, crafting an album that feels both carefully considered and delightfully unguarded. From the first moments, „Schemes“ signals a shift in tactics. Where other Kreidler recordings often move with propellent insistence, here motion feels lighter on its feet. Rhythms skip rather than stride. Synth lines meander, overlap, or gently collide. The music seems less determined to arrive somewhere; more curious to discover new places along the way.
Music and magic are just some of the languages that appear on “Dream In Dream”, which also switches between Japanese, English and German. They sound new wave, but filtered through Saeko’s lens of J-Pop, NDW, and Industrial music. Saeko navigates these in between sounds using signposts from her dreams, guided through the space-time distortion loops as if by a vision. The true meaning of this vision might not be immediately clear – but who minds, when the search for that meaning sounds this good?
