Markus Mehr "In" – No Easy Listening

Excerpt (translated from the German): “Once ‘Komo’ carefully and slowly swells, a contemplative devotional mood spreads in the room, as if in a slightly shopworn Hollywood film, placing a veil of softly drawn desaturated colours…  everything is beautiful and yet seems unreal at the same time – here you have a microcosm of Markus Mehr’s In… which introduces a triptych – in an extremely coherent and impressive manner. The music comprises the slow development of drones and sounds through the constant repetition of certain motifs. The two tracks slowly, continually change, so at the end they are completely different from when they began. ‘Komo’ begins peacefully before long, distorted, slightly glitchy and sampled strings enter the picture… ‘Ostinato’ reveals an approach that is even slower and more mysterious than its predecessor, in which the eternal ramparts of the sea are approached with repetitious short, elegiac piano melodies, filled with melancholy… There’s a lightness of touch to In that’s stunning. The constituent parts are not incredibly diverse, but have been selected wisely, creating a stylistic accuracy that is all the more impressive. The atmosphere asks a question whose answer is not entirely clear… I’m looking forward to parts two and three and recommend In strongly!”

No Easy Listening