By: Daniela Patrizi
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Released on November 6, 2015 via Denovali Records
After three years of near-silence, Thomas Bücker is back with his third full-length album properly titled III. Thomas Bücker is that genius who creates music in the realms of imaginary fictional soundtracks, ambient, and neo-classical with the moniker Bersarin Quartett. If you don’t know who I’m talking about, Bersarin Quartett is a project with a rare sense of elegant beauty and you should definitely start listening to the successful self titled debut and the sophomore II. Bersarin Quartett’s music is usually minimal but highly emotive and explores textures, moods and atmosphere in a very abstract way. The new album, which will be released via the German label Denovali Records, is not different and has the power to transport you to another metaphysical place and time, vast and timeless.
III is composed by twelve selections that flow smoothly together and it’s difficult to pick out individual pieces because every track is a part of a whole experience rather than of a collection of pieces. The whole album is a solemn listening experience with every loop unwinding a certain melancholia that never results into sadness. Melancholia and longing are the moods at the center of the new record through which the German artist defines what melancholia really is: “It is the only emotion in the vast spectrum of human states of mind which one can bear forever”.
The opening track is a masterpiece: ‘Verflossen ist das Gold der Tage’ speaks directly to your heart, it gets into your skin and it doesn’t abandon you. The warm melancholy of this song sets the mood of the whole album that wraps you as your favorite blanket that brings back past and bittersweet memories. The electronic bits are mainly used for texture and for enhancing the atmosphere and the whole composition sounds modern and experimental.
German-born composer keeps on mixing contemporary classical compositions with electronic elements and, in contrast with the first two albums, III has a darker vein adding also elements of drone here and there.
Another gem of this soft collection is ‘Jeder Gedanke umsonst gedacht’, a heart-breaking composition that’s one of the most beautiful pieces of music that Thomas Bücker has ever written. The drama and the sense of melancholy of this song are devastating but the ability of the German artist is to transmit to the listener a serenity of mind and a sense of being in peace with this world that only few artists are able to create through melancholic songs.
In the same way, the following ‘Welche Welt’ is dark but at the same time it’s able to lift your mood up like an echo crossing an abyss thanks also to the splendid vocal of Clara Hill.
III is an intimate record that requires to be experienced alone and undisturbed, letting you travel through the beautiful soundscapes and the deep journeys it inspires.
The latest album of Bersarin Quartett demands your complete attention.
Allow yourself to truly feel this record.
