Enigma, by The Rorschach Garden Records

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1.	01 Violet 04:33	buy track
2.	02 Bittersweet 04:42	buy track
3.	03 October Values 03:58	buy track
4.	04 Rotten Flowers 04:07	buy track
5.	05 Solstice 05:36	buy track
6.	06 The Light of our beautiful Souls 04:10	buy track
7.	07 Molecule Dance 05:22	buy track
8.	08 Barkhaus 03:51	buy track
9.	09 Tangerine 05:46	buy track
10.	10 Enigma 05:40	buy track

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An “Enigma” is by definition something that defies total comprehension, and indeed TRG has swept aside all preconceptions and delivered the unexpected. While remaining faithful to a number of musical aspects Philipp has explored since his quest started in the late 1980s, there is a remarkable advance: “Enigma” works almost entirely without vocals, and leaves the storytelling to music itself.

10 tracks, 49 minutes, classic song-based album format, but then: From the beginning we get treated to the trademark TRG analogue feel, but also the compositions appear more eclectic, daring and experimental (which is of course also a classic TRG feature considering the project’s industrial roots, check: “Rotten Flowers”).

When you feel you have said a lot of things before - and some of them multiple times - remaining silent and letting the music do the talking is quite the consistent choice! Only slight traces of vocals appear, an angelic wail in “October Values” and a vocoder voice in the cheekily titled “Barkhaus”. The rest is all electronic sound, more adventurous than harmonic, more confident than introvert, and somehow impossible to classify – an enigma that demands your attention.

Sascha Ruf, 2021

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released January 1, 2022

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