Stephan Thelen – Fractal Guitar (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:36 minutes | 746 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MoonJune Records
After a few years of playing without effects apart from reverb in Sonar, I felt the urge to compose and record some pieces in which effects were an integral part of the music. I especially wanted to use an effect I worked with before Sonar, which I call “Fractal Guitar” — a rhythmic delay with a very high feedback level that creates cascading delay patterns in odd time signatures such as 3/8, 5/8 or 7/8.
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Stephan Thelen – Fractal Guitar 2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:46 minutes | 829 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MoonJune Records
The making of this album, the successor to the first Fractal Guitar album, has been quite an adventure during quite a unique time in history. The journey started (although I didn’t know it at the time) on November 2, 2019 in Oakland, California, when Henry, Chris, Andy and I were recording tracks at MegaSonic studio. When I returned to Zürich, the world as we knew it soon changed drastically due to the quickly spreading Coronavirus. While it was a time to rethink the values that had governed our lives, it was also (thanks to the wonders of the internet) a disguised opportunity to record an album in lockdown.
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