total impasse by Rufus D

Three years after their last album, Rufus D release six new songs under the title “total impasse”. On it, they consequently carry forward their game of instrumental grooves and experimental sounds. The names of the title track “impasse” and the piece “hold” point to the vibrating state of uncertainty which signifies the music of Rufus D.

Continually propelling forward, the new songs grapple with rhythm, loops and morphing patterns: with the patience of post-rock, the sound structures assemble into soundscapes full of surprises and unexpected cuts. Experimental beats correspond with recurrent guitar riffs and samples of analogous noises; rhythmical elements get highlighted from multiple angles and get diversified, ultimately reduce themselves continually; return electronically rearranged, overload, collapse, evolve, float - until at the end, the body of sound dissolves, implodes, dies away...

Rufus D vereinen Komposition und Improvisation unter einem Deckmantel von experimentellen Klängen und instrumentalem Groove. Ein Mix aus schweren Odd Meter Beats mit minimalistischen Klanglandschaften, beeinflusst von der Risikobereitschaft des Jazz, dem Drive elektronischer Tanzmusik, sowie dem Raum und der Geduld von Post Rock.

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