Monsoon Offerings by Lankow & Brückner feat. Suzannah Moon

Berlin-based percussionist and soundscaper Volker Lankow, who learned his drumming skills in Africa and the Middle East, first met ambient and electronica artist Michael Brückner when taking part as a guest musician in a public rehearsal (basically a small concert including a jam session) by Brückner and another musical friend and collaborator, electronic composer Mathias Brüssel, back in 2015.
From then on, Lankow and Brückner worked together on a number of further occasions, including concerts in Berlin (with centrozoon's Bernhard Woestheinrich), Offenbach and Mainz (both with Bridge to Imla*) and Oirschot and Bocholt (with P'Faun*).

Soon, the idea of doing an album together suggested itself, and Lankow picked some yet unreleased tracks from Brückner's archives (which had shortly be presented on SoundCloud and other platforms) and added his amazing percussion playing and new layers of sound to them.

While this was still work in process, Australian singer and flute player Suzannah Moon aka MegaMoonMaiden (who had already collaborated with Brückner on his album "All The Pieces Fit Forever") signaled interest in joining the creative flow - resulting in her amazing contributions on the album's longest track, "Monsoon Offering / The Red Lamb".

Since all musicians involved also had a lot of other projects going simultaniously, it took more than two years for the album to finally take shape; in the process, various versions of most tracks were produced, bits had to be re-recorded because of hard-disc crashes and copyright issues (in one version parts of a speech by Terry Riley were used that had to be replaced for the release).

Finally everything was done, and the final versions went into the experienced hands of Markus Reuter (Stick Men, Crimson ProjeKCt, Centrozoon), who took care for the mastering.

The album will be released via Bandcamp both on Michael's and Volker's pages in late April 2019.

https://michaelbrueckner.bandcamp.com/
https://volkerlankow.bandcamp.com/

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You can find Suzannah Moon's solo work on SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/suzannah-moon

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Markus Reuter, of course, is not only a mastering enigneer, but an internationally acclaimed touch guitar player and composer (and instrument builder, label co-owner and...) in the first place, and in addition to his solo work he is ever involved in cooperations with other excellent artists from all over the world…

https://markusreuter.bandcamp.com/

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Born in Heidelberg, Germany, later settled down near Mainz.

Earns a living as a graphical designer and social worker.

Ambient and other electronica since 1992.

Extended back catalogue (more than 150 albums by end of 2024, number still growing).

Since 2007 offers his music in the internet, via the usual platforms.

Sometimes gets reviews + airplay.

Plays live now and then.

More is to come...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-Brückner-Ambient-Electronica-more/177377481303
Michael Brückner
Bridge To Imla
P'Faun
La Mansarde Hermétique