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[raphaelvanoli]

First single Alti Plano is out on bandcamp and all streaming platforms (no spotify)

check it out here: https://raphaelvanoli.bandcamp.com/track/alti-plano

[raphaelvanoli]

ventschau is raphael vanoli's second solo album, following bibrax. It comes out on carton records on vinyl, cd, and digital on 26 September 2026

the album takes its name from a small village in northern germany where vanoli stayed on writing retreats between 2018 and 2023. the forest, and long stretches of being alone in it, shaped how the music moves. ventschau is an ode to that love of the forest - poetic and personal, with more room than before for melody, harmony, and song-like shapes. mantra-like figures recur; on several pieces vanoli sings softly into the strings, so breath, voice, and resonance carry as a single sound.

at the core of the record are the "blowing" techniques vanoli has been developing for years - sounds drawn from breath against the strings of a hyperamplified electric guitar, alongside the full range of artefacts and resonances such a guitar can be made to reveal, among them the voice itself, sung through the strings. this is the sound world of the instrument as he hears it, and it has kept opening since bibrax. the spectrum of solo electric guitar widens further here as those techniques share the room with more conventional playing and a broader palette: a fender bass VI, a 12-string electric, and on one piece a steel-string acoustic.

some of the pieces lean into fragility and let it stay. others are epic and densely detailed - wall-of-sound passages that move across the whole frequency range, from the high crispness of an insect world down to sub-low, earthquake-like rumble. all of it is made live, in real time, on a single guitar - which makes the comparison to a classical recital literal rather than figurative: technically, that's what it is.

all the pieces are his, written across those five years, except alti plano, which draws on a traditional bolivian melody. the record was made live to tape in may and august 2023 at electric monkey studio in zaandam, with kasper frenkel engineering. almost everything is analogue, apart from a few pedals. vanoli kept the number of takes low and let the rough edges stay where they fell. 

[raphaelvanoli]

My second solo album Ventschau is mixed and mastered and i am - looking for a label

It is a continuation of the sonic world of my first album Bibrax, contains more elements of song and melody, is inspired by the ever-abundant welcome and rooting effects that being in a real forest have on me.  12 years after accidentally sneezing over the strings of an electric guitar, the many facets of using blowing techniques on guitar still fill me with wonder and excitement.

A recent try-out concert in Amsterdam was a surreal trip and went very deep, I will never forget that one. My new compositions and new sound came out nicely. I look forward to share this new sound with the world and to play live much, much more again.   Greetings, and peace now RV

photo © Alexander JE Bradley

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