Artist: Sounds Of New Soma
Title: The Story Of Sam Buckett
Format: LP, Digital
Label: Tonzonen Records
Distribution: Cargo
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Berlin School, Krautrock
Release Date: 14/02/2025
Beyond The Acid Dream, the first album by the sound tinkering duo, was released in 2014. The album, with its seemingly floating long tracks, was often associated in the press with music from the Berlin School, Tangerine Dream and Krautrock in general. In the scene, it quickly achieved a certain cult status among fans of psychedelic music.
The album Moebius Tunnel followed in 2016. From then on, the sound became more experimental and a mixture of electronic songs and psychedelic rock characterised the upcoming releases. In addition, the duo increasingly worked with guest musicians (for example Andreas Lessenich – saxophone and Armin Schopper – drums), which further enhanced the Sounds Of New Soma concept.
By 2023, the duo had released 12 albums, a 10″ and a 7″. The Story Of Sam Buckett is now their thirteenth album. Guest musicians are Armin Schopper (drums) and Steffen Gründel (saxophone).
Their music is a psychedelic frenzy that draws on elements of classic Krautrock, electronic soundscapes and experimental structures. Hypnotic rhythms meet spherical synthesiser sounds, driving guitars meet unexpected soundscapes. Their compositions are organic and develop with the ease of free improvisation, without losing their stringency or depth.
With Sounds Of New Soma we experience Krautrock in a form that is both familiar and completely new. On the new album, the duo takes us on the indefinite journey of scientist Sam Buckett into the infinite expanses of the cosmos – both outer and inner.
The album tells the story of Sam Buckett, a US scientist who was already researching the possibility of manned space travel in the 1920s. He presented his research findings several times to high-ranking government officials, who dismissed them as irrational. In the end, Sam Buckett was ignored by the government and ridiculed by his colleagues. Nevertheless, he continued his research in a secret laboratory in Rhode Island. A few confidants helped him with his research. Over the years, the small team developed various methods for possible manned space travel and eventually set about building a spaceship called Quasar.
With ectoplasm on board as food and an iron will to discover new galaxies, his trail was lost after the successful launch in March 1929. His few loyal colleagues kept silent about the research and took the secret of Sam Buckett to their graves.
Sam Buckett was forgotten and nobody living on earth knows his story. It remained secret and closed and no one learnt of his research and what became of him. Sounds Of New Soma transcend genre boundaries with The Story Of Sam Buckett: their music is a homage to the pioneers of Krautrock, such as Neu!, Can and Tangerine Dream, and at the same time a glimpse into the future of the genre. In their sonic alchemy, influences from psychedelic, ambient and space rock merge into a unique sound that penetrates deep into the senses and creates an almost trance-like atmosphere.
The duo are masters at taking the listener on a journey – sometimes meditative and introspective, sometimes ecstatic and escalating. The music of Sounds Of New Soma is an experience, a constantly changing flow that makes every moment appear in a different light.
For all those who are ready to embark on a sonic adventure, the duo offers the perfect soundtrack universe: here, the limits of listening are explored, thoughts are abducted and transported into a new, dazzling cosmos.
Tracklist
01. Rhode Island 1929
02. Higgs-Bosonometer
03. Quasar
04. Bakku-Shan Dinner
05. Nahpunk
06. Antineuralring
07. Surreal Journey.
08. Toenivornia
09. Twin Suns
10. Himmlischer Wanderer
11. Liquide Gravitation
12. Merkurkanon
Links
Official: https://soundsofnewsoma.de
Facebook: https://facebook.com/SoundsOfNewSoma
Bandcamp: https://soundsofnewsoma.bandcamp.com
Label: https://www.tonzonen.de
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