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The Sacred Drift

by Ümlaut

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The Shaman 04:59
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Calle 04:49
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Roche Jaune 05:47
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Vegetalismo 04:41
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Saltus 06:50
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Connecticut resident Jeff Düngfelder, aka Umlaut, bisects the ancient and the modern on his latest long-player, crisscrossing genre and categorical boundaries with ease, to the point that his work is notoriously difficult to pigeonhole, and thank the heavens for that. Variety is indeed the spice of life, and Umlaut drinks deep of such notions, embracing all that’s fascinating about experimental electronic composition and issuing the fruits of his label with obvious relish. Right from the get-go, opening track “The Shaman” is a marvelous bit of pan-cultural Indo-synth fusion, recalling everyone from trippier Harold Budd and Jon Hassell to contemporaries on the Six Degrees label like DJ Cheb I Sabbah, what with its mystical, seance-like feel and breezy, Euro-rhythmic patterning. “Calle” continues such motifs apace, though it's more lost in space than abject star trek, its handstruck percussives, jew’s harps, and earthbound paraphernalia situating it somewhere in an interspatial, fourth-world subconscious. These bold and bodacious sounds get randier and riskier as this splendid recording progresses, from the good vibrations of “Vegetalismo” to the extraordinary synthetic apothecary that is “Saltus”, where tablas ripple across the mind’s eye and the legacies of long-forgotten tribes are reincarnated through synaptic vistas of digital worlds made flesh. Fantastico!

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released November 29, 2022

Music composed & constructed by Jeff Düngfelder
Mixed at the Georgian Gardens Studio, New York City

Jeff Düngfelder: electronics, field recordings and noise

Design by Jeff Düngfelder

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Ümlaut Simsbury, Connecticut

Ümlaut is Jeff Düngfelder, a U.S. experimental composer/sound artist now based in the northern Connecticut countryside. The thematic concepts distinguishing his work are absence and silence; the ineffable exchange between viewer and image; random moments of stillness within a landscape in flux. His memory recordings expose the complex relationship between music and silence. ... more

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