The fifth Neu Gestalt album “Dreaming Serpents” is out now on Alex Tronic Records. (2024)
The soundscapes of Dreaming Serpents are created for the most part from processed guitar and bass textures, sampled and resampled via several generations of Akai samplers. The foreground guitars or basses employ a variety of techniques including eBow, feedback (restrained) or, most frequently, a pedal-driven, violin-like slow attack. ‘Beat-orientated ambient’ is the nearest catch-all category most often used for Neu Gestalt’s music, though it more often sits in a demilitarised zone between diverse influences. Neu Gestalt’s videos are created in tandem with the music. There’s a degree of unpredictability in the 3D software used and, as videos take a life of their own, they can suggest changes in musical moods, so there’s a high degree of response back and forth during the making of tracks. Whereas some might question the degree of intelligence involved, none of it is artificial. Two inconveniently long medical events played leading roles in the significant gap since 2019’s ‘Controlled Substances’.
One minute extracts from the remaining ‘Dreaming Serpents’ tracks