ULRICH SCHNAUSS AND MARK PETERS – Destiny Waiving – LP – Vinyl

LABEL: Bureau B

CAT NO: BB371LP

BARCODE: 4015698873276

Tracklisting:

1. The Supposed Middle Class
2. Hindsight Is 20/20
3. Circular Time
4. Chiaroscuro
5. Words Can Be Dismissed
6. Speak In Capitals
7. Clair-Obscur
8. So Far, The Moment

ULRICH SCHNAUSS AND MARK PETERS
Destiny Waiving

LP Black Vinyl

The new album by electronica producer Ulrich Schnauss and the Engineers guitarist Mark Peters Destiny Waiving is released on Bureau B on September 24, 2021.

Hailing from Kiel in North Germany, its now 20 years since the electronica prodigy Ulrich Schnauss released his debut album. His second, A Strangely Isolated Place cemented his reputation as both a pioneer and an artist who routinely creates inspirational music that is adored by many. As a full time member of Tangerine Dream since 2014, his lifelong passion for their work inspired a creative resurgence for the band, resulting in their most successful new album for over 30 years, 2017s Quantum Gate.

Liverpool born guitarist (and founder of the dream pop outfit Engineers) Mark Peters shared a similar musical path, exploring ambient textures and effect laden songwriting via a series of blissful albums for the band. In 2017 he released his first solo album, Innerland which was enthusiastically received by BBC6 music and later included in Rough Trades top ten best albums of 2018.

Destiny Waiving completes a collaborative trilogy that began with 2011s Underrated Silence and followed by 2013s Tomorrow Is Another Day (Schnauss also became a full time member of Engineers at this time). Initial sessions began at Ulrichs East London home studio in early 2017 and final mixes where completed there in late 2020. Despite its extended conception, most tracks where com-pleted during 2017, in part informed by improvisational sets in London, Dublin and St James Church in Birmingham (as part of the Seventh Wave electronica festival).

Despite these exercises in exploration, Destiny Waiving is perhaps the most focused and concise collection of all three releases. Ranging in tone from precognitive foreboding to soaring optimism, the album delicately hones a particular atmosphere that is unmistakable in their work. While track titles such as The Supposed Middle Class acutely display a concern for society at large, compositions and performances reveal a great deal more light and shade. This inherent balance is a key facet of the duos chemistry, signposted by the titles of Chiaroscuro and Clair-Obscur and the shifting moods within the tracks. For every rushing, upward sweep (Hindsight is 20/20, Circular Time), contemplative countering is evident in tracks such as Words Can Be Dismissed and So Far, The Moment.

As were all tired of hearing now, the global situation in 2021 is less than ideal, but if its any consolation, Ulrich and Mark have fulfilled their destiny by creating a work thats both undeniably potent and endlessly immersive.

See below for tracklisting