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... seine Ambient Tracks sind einfach großartig: liebevoll und ganz eigen im Sound.
DJ Nartak
eternaldancer.de
Ein Stück Ambient Kunst, das es wert ist immer wieder und wieder gehört zu werden.
Bert Strolenberg, Sonic Immersion
"Egal was gesagt wird – es ist – wie es ist, und alles ist möglich", erklärte Andreas Leifeld 2004. In Sachen Musik, war für ihn alles möglich. Auf dem Album 'Tranquility In Motion' offenbart Leifeld abermals, wie man noch zu Lebzeiten die irdischen Wahrnehmungen um überirdisch anmutende Sounds erweitert. Die elektronisch-spirituellen Klangcollagen sind Labsal für die Sinne und die Sinnlichkeit.
Album of the month July 2007
So much to say with so few words: A conscious stream of symbols all pointing to the same horizon.
This man had travelled so far: From his days as one of the first techno musicians and a purveyor of a dry, minimal and yet organic groove, via the rich soundscapes of his melodic phase, he finally arrived at “Ornamental Journey” in 2005: A deep, warm and all-embracing album full of bass radiation, looped guitar lines and...
An exercise in whispering and a conscious stream of symbols all pointing to the same horizon. The opener “Dreaming” is made up of a motive of four tones and a single change of the root note, while “Inside” drifts on a tabla and rimshot loop, merely shifting the focus of its melodies to the fore- and background for a hypnotic eleven minutes... For no matter how dark and brooding some of the tracks may start off, they always find the light of their resolution and the yearning harmonics of the final “Zephyr” are aimed straight at the sky above us.
Tobias Fischer, Tokafi
This release from 2007 offers 62 minutes of delicate electronic music.
Natural Frequencies is Andreas Leifeld.
Airy tonalities provide a backdrop for pensive e-perc and crystalline keyboards. Articulated chords surface amid this foggy milieu, establishing a dreamlike mood periodically augmented by sweeping textures.
A strange contrast of vaporous ambience and piercing electronics provide this tuneage with a tasty girth. Aerial drones and expansive tones generate a cosmic sensibility that is excellently tempered by immediate elements.
Guitar and sitar comprise some of those foreground aspects. The sitar provides an exotic touch to the austere flow, sizzling with contented wisdom. The guitar functions from a subliminal vantage, infusing the tunes with seductive punctuations.
While percussion is present, the rhythms remain sedate and muted, performing their lazy propulsion from a subdued vantage. Often the beats are treated in manners that attribute them fuzzy edges.
The electronics supply the gist of the music's substance. Ethereal textures waft with rippling movements. Temperate waves rise and fall like gurgling mists. Choppy burblings provide a slight energizing influence that never reaches an intrusive level.
These compositions fuse tranquility with subtle motion. Serenity stirs with gentle agitation, achieving a covert revitalization for the spirit. Leifeld has an expert command of coaxing poignant melodic flows from accumulative ambience, then seasoning those soundscapes with life through the application of vibrant embellishments.
Matt Howarth, Sonic Curiosity