Mike Ludwig is a musician based in Darmstadt, Germany. He has been releasing music as Screaming Bones since 2021. One day Ludwig decided to put the guitar in a corner of his bedroom studio and started to explore only Soma (Lyra 8, Ornament 8 and Cosmos) and Moog Subharmonicon synthesisers connected to a bunch of guitar pedals.
Words by Marco Guerra
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After several improvisation sessions on which Ludwig got lost, in a good way, with this machinery, the album “A Day In The Labyrinth Of A Psychedelic Mind” was born. People that are familiar with the way modular machines work know that these babies have, among other great possibilities, the ability to respond differently each time they are touched and played. Sometimes it seems that they gain their own life and personality, they play alone and go to places that you quite weren’t expecting they could. This instability and unpredictability just makes it even more fun to play in a modular synth.
While listening to the six tracks of “A Day In The Labyrinth Of A Psychedelic Mind” you can easily figure out that Ludwig had a lot of fun. A psychedelic journey to the deep of his inventive mind, a long walk through the likes of drone, dark ambient and exploratory music. Listening to the album is an unforgettable experience, you need to be available and give yourself to it. Like all the pieces of art that shines, or like a great story, the album is tight in a brilliant way, with its beginning, middle and end. It starts quietly with “Kaleidoscope”, a wonderful oscillating drone with its layers. The intensity grows step by step and hits the climax with “Lunar Headspace'' and “Heartbeat” (tracks 4 and 5), then it comes down until “Sun Salution”, the last track. I read somewhere: ‘Think of Blade Runner-like sonic walls, garnished with weird noises generated by pure electricity and you’re somewhat there’. Well, I can’t figure a better way to describe “A Day In The Labyrinth Of A Psychedelic Mind”!
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