PERIODE Grapes of Nothingness record release party

LAURA NOT dj-set
RONALD DICK (WELTSCHMERZ VERLAG) dj-set
PERIODE (KARLRECORDS) live


Working together as PERIODE since 2016, the duo of THOMAS WINKLER and KREIDLER founding member ANDREAS REIHSE has been refining its delicate sound over the course of six releases. 
With their latest effort Grapes Of Nothingness (Karlrecords) the most assured one so far.

The ingredients are as simple as effective: an old 70+ Telecaster guitar with a few effect pedals, a drum machine, an audio interface that is connected to a laptop. WINKLER’s guitar patterns have a fragmented, almost haphazard connotation, searching in a shimmer of reverb, until REIHSE’s beats, the framework, set in to reveal structure. Here, WINKLER expands these patterns by subtly honing the distinctive picking technique he learned in 1986 from a homeless man under the piers of Brighton — a ghostly imprint that now resurfaces with refined precision.
REIHSE´s programmed rhythms go just to the point of a groove, holding the moment of tension, knowingly delaying the gratification. Beats that have a scratchy patina and an subtly playful edge; their crispness stands in clear contrast to the contemplative drift of the guitar.
The nine tracks on Grapes Of Nothingness feel like a series of studies on a mood: a profound melancholy, a certain bleakness — but never desperate. There are some apparent references here: a good portion of Les Disques du Crépuscule, some kraut-esque electronica, even a smidgen of Spaghetti Western, all blending into a kind of Musique Noir — yet these serve only as a set of orientational coordinates, rather than aesthetic quotations. Is it a trance? Or a dance? Yes.