His eyes on the essential things, Luzius Schuler, looking out of the window of his studio, imagines what the world outside might sound like through the glass. The puddle underneath his front door gets in the way of his morning walk, becomes a lake and grows towards the horizon. Erik Satie could feel at home on this water, swinging his paddle for eternity.
On his third solo album, water related events, Luzius Schuler brings together impressionistic piano art, pop sensibility and his curiosity for recording the smallest details and, with them, composes a musique concrète of everyday life. The view from his apartment becomes music, taking a swim becomes the subject of his musical poetry, it is a sonic collection of everyday rituals. Just as Monet paints his water lilies, Luzius Schuler cultivates his musical garden.
This music crackles like an open fire, somewhere between Debussy, Ambient and 90s Sega console nostalgia. What you hear is the musical moment and the fragility of the artistic process, crackling like tape, as if one had spent time on the hand-knotted carpet floating between piano, closet and bed, listening to the music as it emerges.
