May 2, 2011 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Markus Mehr is one of the new artists that captured our ears and hearts. With its thick layers of frequency-heavy guitars and synth pads, Lava floats into our studios, first swallowing the floors, then suffocating the lungs. Rising fumes of sonic...
Dec 6, 2010 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Ambient drone loveliness from the German, with plenty of heartwrenching drama among the pulses and drifts. Hubble is the most gorgeous synth orchestration I’ve heard in ages, a 1000-yard low drone gathering sparkles of melody as it rolls....
Nov 17, 2010 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Markus Mehr ‘Cousteau’ (hidden shoal). Starts of quietly this one if fact so quietly that you may well be fooled into thinking the free download link is broken or at least faulty. Fairly certain we’ve mentioned German ambi-maestro Markus Mehr in...
Oct 28, 2010 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Created using synths, processed guitars, distortion pedals, and computer (supplemented by additional sound sources including electric shavers, ventilators, electric tooth brushes, and field recordings), Markus Mehr’s Lava presents nine dark...
Oct 28, 2010 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Except: [Translated] “A monolithic body [of] sound sometimes waving [like] a giant environment, like a kaleidoscope, granting a few colors in pictures [the] are always different, this is “Lava” first album of German musician Marcus Mehr. The strong...
Oct 28, 2010 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Ambient music is difficult to define, because the word “ambient” works better as an adjective than as a noun. So many sub-genres are funneled into the ambient field as to dilute its meaning. At its worst, ambient music is confused with new age, and...
