resonance
Boris Blank: A sound journey into distant worlds
Boris Blank’s new album was originally commissioned for a thermal bath. photo
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With “Resonance” Boris Blank presents his third solo album. While his early works with Yello were characterized by dance hits, Blank devotes his solo project to meditative sounds.
The artist Boris Blank opens his new record “Resonance”, which will be released on February 16th, with spherical sounds and modern electro beats. “I am a person who creates atmospheric images,” said the 72-year-old in an interview with dpa. The Swiss musician is now proving this with his third studio album.
In the twelve songs he takes Artists take listeners on a journey through different sound worlds. The album was originally commissioned for a thermal bath. During the production process, he made sure that the music “didn’t slip into kitsch and the whole thing became too sweet,” says Blank.
Above all, he wanted to highlight the DNA of his music in the album. “That’s of course a little different to the music I made for Yello,” said Blank, who made his musical breakthrough with the electro-pop duo Yello (“The Race”). Together with his bandmate Dieter Meier, he shaped the dance music of the eighties. In 2013, Blank released the first studio album of his solo project.
In his new album, the artist has created a mixture of electro and trance that comes together in a meditative sound. He was particularly inspired and moved by the architecture and history of the thermal baths for the composition. “There were a lot of excavations that they found there from Roman times,” he said. Blank shows this with diverse contrasts between synthetic sounds and organic natural sounds, such as in the song “North of Eden”.