DarkSonicTales

DarkSonicTales is a project by Rolf Gisler and his eponymous album his first for Hallow Ground. Having been granted an artist residency by the label in a 300 year-old farm house in the Swiss countryside in autumn 2019, the Lucerne-based musician and sound artist explored the peculiar sonic environment of the building and its surroundings through the use of field recordings, modular synthesizers, guitar, bass, kalimbas, a singing saw as well as self-built instruments. DarkSonicTales starts with kalimba sounds and field recordings, setting the stage for Sonic Darkness— a self-referential spoken word piece whose sinister jazz-like sound calls to mind Bohren & der Club of Gore.