In his electro-acoustic trio album, the Berlin composer Johannes Motschmann unites great lines of tradition in German music history: classical and electronic music

Rough, melancholic and dark is this live played electro sound, in which analog synthesizers, an old Wurlitzer piano and the famous CP-70 piano with a huge multipercussion set and violin sounds are rhythmically interlaced and lost in surfaces. This music reflects the career of Johannes Motschmann, who studied composition, piano and electronic music and has already composed for large orchestras

Already as a teenager he played in different bands, loved New Wave and electronic music equally. With the album "Electric Fields" he has succeeded in creating an image of a place: He has brought together the two great traditions of German music history in a new way, captured atmospheric images of a night journey through Berlin and created his own sound between electronic dance music, avant-garde and orchestral sound spheres - implemented in a classical band line-up as a trio

References to Tangerine Dream and other representatives of the Berlin School are audible. Already in the 70s they experimented with synthesizers and have left deep traces in the music culture from New Wave to Brian Eno and Techno. Motschmann takes all these influences, mixes ambient, industrial and drones sounds with sound fields that repeatedly create associations with classical music. In this he finds the natural connection to the virtuoso compositional tradition of Bach, Satie or Stockhausen, whose craft Motschmann learned

The rhythms of Electric Fields are meticulously designed as sheet music and were recorded live by the trio in the studio. All instruments have been recorded in the same room, so that the handmade electric sound sounds plastic and natural. Johannes Motschmann is accompanied by multipercussionist David Panzl and sound engineer Boris Bolles, who contributes violin melodies as well as other synthesizer parts.