Adventures Into Somethingness

“If an album has a striking cover, the track titles are clever, the backstory is memorable and the first video is intriguing, does it guarantee a review? Not always; the music must appeal as well. Thankfully, in this case it does, and there is a solid somethingness to this quiet adventure.”

— Richard Allen, A Closer Listen

Conrad Praetzel - Adventures Into Somethingness

Adventures Into Somethingness

Conrad Praetzel

Digital, CD & Vinyl Release - Available Now (Paleo Music)

Vinyl Release - Available Now (Orbeatize Records)

“an otherworldly landscape well beyond the expected limitations that other traditional genres provide”

— The Daily Music Report

 

“there is a solid somethingness to this quiet adventure”

— A Closer Listen

“an album full of dense and richly textured ambient music”

— New And Notable, Bandcamp

 

“textured mood boards for the mind”

— The Letter

Conrad Praetzel’s Adventures Into Somethingness is the first album of new music released under his name in twenty-four years. Gone are the traditional roots music instrumentations he has frequently employed in the past. This is explorative ambient music that continuously evolves in form utilizing deft sound design techniques along with tension and release to mesmerize and engage the listener. Sampled sound sources, often of electric guitar processed through effect pedals, are further reshaped, reprocessed and mangled into something entirely new to produce pulsating drones filled with sonic artifacts and ethereal landscapes.

All instruments played and arranged by Conrad Praetzel.

Recorded 2019-21 at Dig Studios in Santa Rosa, CA.

Cover art: C.K.Itamura

Cover design: Brian Willis

“Everything evolves and erodes at just the right time during this release and emerges as a colorful field of sound. Highly listenable and fills in the perfect space of background or foreground music. 10/10.”

— tonepoet

Tracks

Capacitor Weavers

Adventures Into Somethingness

Disintegrateful

Blue Poppies

Sanctuary

Rescued by the Nano Spirits

Absence Of Nothing

Hidden Compass Power

Gravity Melting

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