Giraffe - Desert Haze

Label: Marionette – Marionette12
Format: Vinyl, 12", Album, 180g
Country: UK
Released: Nov 1, 2019
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Tribal

Converging from outlying musical parallels, Sascha Demand (guitar), Jürgen Hall (keys) and Charly Schöppner (percussion) come together as one with their 2017-incepted project Giraffe. Now the sole object of their studio experiments, the trio surfaces on Marionette with their third album in two years, ‘Desert Haze‘, just a few months after ‘Shine And Dark‘, released via Belgian imprint Meakusma.

An endearingly meditative listen throughout, the album takes us on a hypnotic drift across textured soundscapes and understated percussive interplays. As its title suggests, our pick ‘Vapour‘ brushes a rivetingly peaceful tableau of zen-like cascading drums, aqueous riffs and ambivalent pads, swinging the pendulum between faded nostalgia and post-jazz stasis. An eloquent epitome of the German outfit’s unique savoir faire in fat-free sound design and downtempo hypnotics.

A1. Drought
A2. Deception
A3. Heat
A4. Vapour
A5. Pressure
A6. Glare
B1. Stone
B2. Gravel
B3. Sand
B4. Ice
B5. Salt