Hauschka - What If (2017) [FLAC]

  Genres: Rock, Electronic
  Styles: Post-Rock, Experimental, Indie Electronic
  Source: WEB
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit rate: ~ 800 kbps 
  Bit depth: 16
  Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

  01 I Can’t Find Water
  02 Constant Growth Fails
  03 My Kids Live on Mars
  04 I Need Exile
  05 I Can’t Express My Deep Love
  06 Nature Fights Back
  07 Familiar Things Disappear
  08 Trees Only Exist in Books
  09 We Live a Thousand Years
  10 Egos Are Detached
  11 Knowledge Is Passed On

  After spending several years composing music for films - most notably 2016's Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated Dustin O'Halloran collaboration Lion - Hauschka's Volker Bertelmann tells his own stories on What If. On his previous solo album Abandoned City, his inspirations were tangible and the music focused on the mainstay of his work, the prepared piano; this time, Bertelmann lets his imagination and arrangements run wild as he speculates on what life could be like in the not-too-distant future. To express these fantasies, Hauschka looks to rhythms inspired by hip-hop, superhumanly fast and accurate player pianos, and an Eventide H3000 Harmonizer and Roland Jupiter synth that add just the right amount of sci-fi wonder. Salon Des Amateurs already proved that Hauschka can incorporate unexpected sounds and sources into his music seamlessly, but there's still something special about What If's vignettes of loss, frustration, and occasional whimsy. A subtle political undercurrent runs through tracks such as "I Can't Find Water," where the prepared piano scrabbles as a melody shimmers like a mirage just out of reach, or "Constant Growth Fails," where the player piano's frantic arpeggios evoke Philip Glass' Koyaanisqatsi score