Sonar - Black Light (2015)

"Had MC Escher made music instead of drawing his famously impossible and perplexing perspectives, it would sound like Sonar." Sid Smith, Prog Magazine (UK)

SONAR and their mesmerizing/infuriating (choose depending on your perspective) music exploded on a unsuspecting world with Cuneiform's release of their album, Static Motion, 2 years ago. An instrumental rock quartet consisting of 2 guitars, bass and drums, they are a progressive, post-minimal, instrumental band from Switzerland. Their name stands for SONic ARchitecture, alluding to their intention of creating polymetrical soundscapes and highly structured aural spaces.

Sonar's music is played live without any sequencers, loops or computers using a minimum amount of equipment: 2 guitars, a bass guitar, 3 small amplifiers und a basic drum kit. No effects are used to keep the music as clear, direct and immediate as possible. The group is very concerned about timbres, tension and release, group dynamics and instrumental interplay. The group toured throughout Europe upon the release of their last one and more shows are planned, including their second US tour in 2016.

Tracklist:

1. Enneagram 09:16
2. Black Light 05:34
3. Orbit 5.7 08:37
4. Angular Momentum 09:25
5. String Geometry 05:59
6. Critical Mass 10:34
7. Twofold Covering [Bonus Live Track] 08:03
8. Tromsö [Bonus Live Track] 10:23
9. Orbit 5.7 [Andi Pupato Remix] 08:51

Personnel:

Stephan Thelan: guitar
Bernhard Wagner: guitar
Christian Kunter: bass
Manuel Pasquinelli: drums