PREMIERE: Strange Fruit - Pouvoir Moteur [Gentle Tuesday]

About this episode

The episode features the premiere of 'Pouvoir Moteur' by Strange Fruit, showcasing a unique blend of krautrock and electronic influences.

akarta’s Strange Fruit with the last track from their Drips EP is something super special. Pouvoi Moteur – French for “motoric power,” since you asked – is exactly what that sounds like: locked-groove krautrock discipline shot through with kosmische shimmer, the kind of track that makes the road ahead feel endless and the destination irrelevant. The ghost of Can’s engine room is all over it, that locked hypnosis that somehow never quite repeats itself, while Cluster’s smeared electronics hover at the periphery. Aryadiaz, who conceived it partly out of an obsession with factory machinery and, apparently, partly with German beer, describes the 4/4 pattern as feeling like “breaking through space and time.” We’re inclined to agree. Out now via Gentle Tuesday Recordings, with a vinyl release to follow through Loide and TipTop Records. Stunning stuff. https://strangefruit.bandcamp.com/album/drips

Topics covered

• music
• krautrock
• electronic
• vinyl
• recording

Keywords

• Strange Fruit
• Drips EP
• motoric power
• locked-groove
• kosmische shimmer
• Can
• Cluster
• Aryadiaz
• factory machinery
• German beer

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Pouvoi Moteur, Can, Gentle Tuesday Recordings, Loide, TipTop Records

Books & works: Strange Fruit, Drips

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