Van Halo, by Blast Unicorn

Van Halo

by Blast Unicorn

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1.	Van Halo 00:54
2.	Just Chillin 02:54
3.	Abteil 02:04
4.	Gedankenstrich 00:29
5.	Blast Unicorn 04:00
6.	Waterclimber 00:45
7.	Ghostmodern 02:54
8.	KKKC 02:59
9.	Music Face 00:38
10.	Ausgeburt 02:18	buy track
11.	Nonnenfinsternis 03:25
12.	Hack in the City 00:34
13.	Bobtail Builder 02:55
14.	ueberhaupt 01:39
15.	Hitfall 00:46
16.	Schattespender 02:40
17.	King Crumbles 01:15
18.	Godshaped Ice-Cream 02:12

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Blast Unicorn is the joint project of touch guitarist Alexander Paul Dowerk and electronic musician Tobias Reber. The band's debut album "Van Halo" blends edgy eight string guitars with meticulously programmed drums and synths in a suite of quirky, delightfully disturbing and fiendishly complex compositions. Stylistically indebted to metal music and contemporary electronics but drawing just as much on pop clichees and the classic avant-gardes's formal exuberance, each piece unfolds according to its own inner logic while sharing traits with various other tracks, thus creating an interconnected space of densely compressed themes and ideas.

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released April 1, 2015

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Alexander Paul Dowerk
touch guitars U8 deluxe, acoustic guitar, clavinova, additional programming & synths, mouth (17)

Tobias Reber
synths, drum programming, samples, electronics, voice and lyrics (10)

Produced by Markus Reuter and Tobias Reber
Mixed by Benjamin Schäfer at Horus Sound, Hannover, Germany
Mastered by Lee Fletcher for Unsung Productions in Paignton, UK
Artwork and Design by Alexander Paul Dowerk

Alexander thanks Annika Blohm, Angela, Jana, Philip and Roland Dowerk, Martha Kusmisz, Lars Basczok, Lisa Hillebrand, Marian Gwozdz, Jaime McGill

Tobias thanks Samira, Simona, Selina, Françoise and Andreas. Special thanks to Markus, Benjamin, Lee and Bernhard for your Mildly Decent contributions and generous help in creating this album.
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