Private Sphere

When the acid dream got sour. When turning on turned into bittersweet and bloody rebellion. When government progpaganda turned from subtle manipulation to vicious lies. When love turned to confusion, confusion to despair, despair to hate. When the war started screaming louder and society’s cracks widened. All fueled, amplified and supercharged by groundbreaking mind-expanding chemical laboratory discoveries, accidentally (or not?) let loose on a disillusioned and rebellious youth eager to go all the way. 

This edition of Private Sphere’s bi-monthly LYL Radio appearance is a prototypical sonic collage by Tobias Lichter. A work-in-progress stemming from an ongoing personal research into the deeper depths of American acid sub-/counterculture and its peak in the late 1960s. A blend of dark-edged, gloomy, confused and moody tunes by obscure, turned-on creative youngsters accross the States, reflecting the anxious zeitgeist shortly after the „summer of love“, with spoken word snippets lifted from contemporary media coverage. Farewell to naive „flower power“, here comes the true sound of confusion … 

Full tracklist at LYL Radio 

Within this edition of Private Sphere’s bi-monthly LYL show, Lilli Lake & George Popov from Düsseldorf create a soundscape under the title Too Late Now.

Too Late Now lingers with a subtle restlessness, as if something slightly feral were reorganising the air around it. Ambient textures, spoken fragments, and threads of folk, drone, and noise fold into a repeating, dissolving, and returning structure bent by brief delays.

Neozaïre’s EP “Hotel Excelsior” is a hommage to the light, iridescent and shimmering. A continuously moving narrative interweaving a glistening, radiant heat with positive mysticism. 

The four compositions on this EP represent the second part of a six track cycle that found its start with the release of last year’s “Pop Ambient 2021“, Kompakt’s highly renowned anual ambient music compilation curated by Wolfgang Voigt. 

“Hotel Excelsior” marks the debut publication for the newly established platform Private Sphere.

Also available as a professionally duplicated audio cassette with full-colour inlay and on-body print via the Private Sphere Bandcamp page.