Periode - Das Siebte Pferd [Audio]

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Album: Grapes of Nothingness [ALBUM]
Track: 1 of 9
Title: Das Siebte Pferd
Artist: Periode
Label: Karlrecords
Cat#: KR122
Formats: Vinyl LP/Digital
Digital Release: 30th January 2026
Physical Release: 30th January 2026

About This Release:

Waiting is the essence of travel. Patience is its own reward.
Two people. A Telecaster guitar with a few effect pedals. A drum machine. An audio interface is connected to a laptop. The ingredients are simple yet effective.
But any suggestion of four-track cassette machines and vintage bedsit productions is quickly dispelled by digital dubbiness and refined arrangements. A tail of reversed echos. The crystalline flourish of octave-pitched delays. Riddled hi-hats tickle and taunt. A bass drum asserts its space.
Winkler's guitar patterns have a fragmented, almost haphazard connotation. Searching in a shimmer of reverb. Until the beat, the framework, sets in to reveal structure. Intentionality. Reihse's programmed rhythms go just to the point of a groove, holding the moment of tension, knowingly delaying the gratification. Beats that have scratchy patina anda subtly playful edge; their crispness stands in contrast to the contemplative drift of the guitar. Is it a trance? Or a dance? Yes.
There are some apparent references here: a good portion of Les Disques du Crépuscule, some kraut-esque electronica, even a smidgen of Morricone / Spaghetti Western, blending into a kind of Musique Noir – yet these serve as a set of orientational coordinates, rather than quotations.
This is so far the most assured release by Periode, perhaps eschewing some of the naiveté that was wilfully cultivated in earlier output – there is no cheeky cover version this time. And no singing either. The nine pieces have the quality of a series, a variation on a mood, or a subset of moods. What emerges is an inviting swagger in the face of bleakness. There is a profound melancholy, but it is not the darker kind, and does not exclude humour.
First impressions may suggest that this is purely nocturnal music. Yet it equally evokes the harsh sunlight and baking summer heat. Or a rainy day. And transportation: the music suggests the motion of travel, even if that travel only happens within the mind. And waiting. Waiting while doing nothing much. Because that's all you can do. (Alexander Paulick)


Andreas Reihse is a Berlin based musician, mostly known as founding member of Kreidler. He also composes music for theater and film, occasionally writes, draws, and makes movies.
Thomas Winkler is a Berlin based musician, painter, photographer and performance artist. He cofounded the publishing house Heckler und Koch and the galleryEuropean Fine Art.
Credits:
Written, performed, recorded, mixed, produced by Periode 2024–26 by Thomas Winkler, Andreas Reihse
Feuer und Flamme für Berlin Studio, Paulick Saal, Barb32
Grapes of Nothingness tweaked by Alex Paulick at Spatialtone
Mastering and Cut by Helmut Erler at Hey Rec
Cover painting by Thomas Winkler