Fractal Guitar Remixes and Extra Tracks
including Urban Nightscape (Bill Laswell Remix – HD 24bit) Featuring MARKUS REUETR and DAVID TORN
Stephan Thelen’s ’seminal ‘Fractal Guitar’ album released earlier this year is one of the all time best reviewed albums on MoonJune Records. Now, Stephan Thelen and the legendary Bill Laswel have re-mixed some of the tunes, and MoonJune Records is offering now HD Download.
Fractal Guitar Remixes and Extra Tracks
including Urban Nightscape (Bill Laswell Remix – HD 24bit) Featuring MARKUS REUETR and DAVID TORN
Stephan Thelen’s ’seminal ‘Fractal Guitar’ album released earlier this year is one of the all time best reviewed albums on MoonJune Records. Now, Stephan Thelen and the legendary Bill Laswel have re-mixed some of the tunes, and MoonJune Records is offering now HD Download.
Featuring guitar maestros and guitar sound innovators MARKUS REUTER, DAVID TORN in addition to Jon Duran, Matt Tate, Manuel Pasquinelli, Andi Pupato, Benno Kaiser, Bill Walker and of course the Swiss guitar maestro Stephan Thelen himself in the words of John Kelman (All About Jazz), Stephan Thelen’s MoonJune debut “Fractal Guitar” was “not just a masterclass of 21st century guitar, but a true guitar masterpiece of the new millennium.”
This remix album contains remixes of four tracks from Fractal Guitar (including a remix of Urban Nightscape by Bill Laswell) plus three unreleased extra tracks. A 12” vinyl LP with the first three tracks can be pre-ordered now and will be shipped out around October 1st, 2019.
01 BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL (ST REMIX) (7:30)
David Torn: electric guitar, live looping
Jon Durant: cloud guitar
Matt Tate: U8 touch guitar (bass)
Manuel Pasquinelli: drums
Stephan Thelen: fractal guitar
The title of this track is taken from Doris Lessing’s book.
02 FRACTAL GUITAR (ST MIX) (9:21)
Markus Reuter: U8 touch guitar, soundscapes
Barry Cleveland: guitar atmospheres
Matt Tate: U8 touch guitar (bass)
Andi Pupato: percussion
Benno Kaiser: drums
Stephan Thelen: fractal guitar, granular loops
03 URBAN NIGHTSCAPE (BILL LASWELL REMIX) (17:33)
Bill Laswell: bass, electronics, mix translation
David Torn: electric guitar, live looping
Markus Reuter: U8 touch guitar, soundscapes
Matt Tate: U8 touch guitar (bass)
Benno Kaiser: drums
Stephan Thelen: fractal guitar, organ, samples
04 ROAD MOVIE (ST EDIT & MIX) (13:23)
Markus Reuter: U8 touch guitar, soundscapes
Matt Tate: U8 touch guitar (bass)
Manuel Pasquinelli: drums
Stephan Thelen: fractal and blue sky guitar, granular loops
05 WAVES AND PARTICLES
Markus Reuter: U8 touch guitar, soundscapes
Manuel Pasquinelli: drums
Stephan Thelen: guitar, piano, bass, mix
This is the original version of the track that was later used on the Sonar with David Torn album “Vortex”.
06 HALF MOON BAY
Bill Walker: guitar, live looping
Stephan Thelen: mix and edit
07 BECKONING BELLS
Barry Cleveland: guitars, atmospheres, mix
Stephan Thelen: e-bow guitar
Original album produced by Markus Reuter & Stephan Thelen
Executive Producer: Leonardo Pavkovic for MoonJune Records
? © Moonjune Music/2019
All tracks written by Stephan Thelen except:
“Briefing for a Descent into Hell” written by Stephan Thelen and David Torn
“Urban Nightscape” by Stephan Thelen, David Torn and Markus Reuter
“Half Moon Bay” written by Bill Walker
“Beckoning Bells” written by Barry Cleveland and Stephan Thelen
Recorded at various locations across Europe and North America between August 2015 and April 2018.
Cover image: RhythmiCityLights (c) by Alexandra Rangger www.alexandrarangger.at
Bill Laswell Remix: Orange Music, West Orange NJ, February 2019. Engineer: James Dellatacoma.
Thanks to Fabio Anile, Brandy Gale, Henry Kaiser, Leonardo Pavkovic and the Prasad family.
David Torn appears courtesy of ECM Records.