Music Album Category: Solo Albums

Spyra’s new album TAU is part three of the CD trilogy STAUB – DUNST – TAU, which has already found critical acclaim for bringing new impulses for the ancient art of Berlin School Sequenzermusik. While STAUB was severely reduced to the maxim of minimalist sequences, recorded as one shot studio sessions without any overdubs, DUNST…

„Arguably the finest and purest album of its kind to follow in the footsteps of the analog years, MY LITTLE GARDEN OF SOUNDS 2022 is a pure masterpiece of contemporary electronic music (EM) that has no desire to deny its grandiose past… Perhaps the most beautiful tribute to Klaus Schulze comes from the left field.…

Referred to as the follow-up album of “Staub” (2014), Wolfram Spyra takes his listeners on a trip of energetic contemporary electronics on “Dunst”, coming up with a fresh approach of the classic Berliner Schule sound of KS and TD for nowadays’ audiences. As such the striking outcome offers various chances to reach younger audiences with…

With his 17th album “Staub”, Wolfram Spyra presents the electronic community a different yet daring sonic experiment. What initially started out as something organized, logical and back-to-basics ended up more and more chaotic, deranged and unpredictable as the project evolved. There’s no sign of compromise on anything on the 50-minute release: seems Mr Spyra enjoyed…

With the release of No Beats for 1 Hour (59’58“) Spyra establishes himself as one of the most versatile musicians on the Electronic Music scene. Already highly regarded among the sequencer Spacemusic crowd by way of his SeQuest and Future of the Past CDs he has demonstrated an equal command of the IDM vocabulary through…

Although the rumours on this recording said quite the opposite, Wolfram Spyra delivers a fine melange of inventive electro-acoustic music with “January in June”. This especially applies to the first half of the cd, including the title track. On the other hand, one can’t miss the more progressive approach taken on “January in June”, which…

Wolfram “Der” Spyra” continues his successful Berliner-School inspired sonic explorations with “Gasoline 91 Octane”, released April 4th 2008, which contains six wonderful electronic compositions. The almost 63-minute album is the first part of a trilogy inspired by Spyra’s many travels by car when he has to drive to concert venues or sonic art exhibitions. “Shirogane”…

Typical Spyra with chilled out, laid back, down tempo melodies and beats. The tracks are very unique and maintain a high degree of interest. The music seems to float away into another dimension of space and sound. At times there is a sense of jazz flavor, as in track five or a hypnotic piano rift,…

With „Meditationen 1/2“ Wolfram Spyra releases one of the most beautiful electronic CDs of the new year. I only knew him from his short contribution to the „First decade“ sampler of the MANIKIN label. All the more positive was my impression of these long pieces.I would call the CD „MIRAGE II“, so similar are the…

“Excerpts 1” comprises eight tracks Wolfram Spyra composed between 1986 and 1992. This version is actually the cd version of an album which originally was released as a limited compact cassette edition back in 1992, now complemented with one bonus track. I’ve always considered Spyra as one of the innovators in the genre due to…

It is titled Invisible Fields and is in fact part three in a series of CDs that deal with electromagnetic waves.The first track Test Transmission seems to introduce us to an 80s retro-style CD with mechanic beats and basslines, good for dancing on the factory floor, but this feeling changes with tracks 2 and 3…

The first 222 copies of this box set are numbered and signed by Der Spyra himself. The presentation is beautiful, the box containing 3 individual slip cases containing the CDs, all rounded off by a 16 page full colour booklet. ‚Live in Berlin.de‘ opens with ‚Intro‘, a hugely atmospheric 10 minute collage of drifting sounds.…

A welcome re-release of this album which was getting increasingly difficult to get hold of. Actually, it’s a lot more then a straight re- release so if you have the original it’s still worth investigation. Cosmetically things are radically different with a fresh, minimalist slant to the packaging in contrast to the busy cartoon capers…

Spyra says: „This is the best CD that I’ve ever made“, and, in fact, we won’t argue about that although we also like his well-selling fax-releases“Phonehead“,“Sferics“and the co-production „Virtual Vices“ with Pete Namlook. “ Etherlands“, which is a reference to the invisible ether and to all people who work in independent radio stations, is the…

Yes, our hero is back with his second release on the FAX label. The CD is packaged in that strange “back to front” style which a few CDs have employed recently, and Wolfram der Spyra is pictured amongst a plethora of ageing radio-related hardware. The track titles look suitably “off the wall” so it’s time…

WOLFRAM DER SPYRA: SOUND INSTALLATION at the HOSPITAL CHAPEL in TREYSA This CD contains the music of a room-filling, site specific sound installation with a compositional structure and external design which work together to suggest the original historical function of the building. The music is divided into three thematic sections, which refer to the borderline…

This album couldn’t fail to catch my eye – the graphics at the bottom of the page are splashed below the clear CD tray. PPG Modular, made famous on the cover of Zenith 2 – may even be the same one! Actually it’s not clear from the sleevenotes who the artist(s) behind Spyra actually is,…

‘Future of the Past’ is still a regular in my CD player, so imagine my enthusiasm when two more Spyra releases dropped onto the door mat. „Der Spyra“ as he is credited on the sleevenotes is again pictured amongst an impressive combination of old and new technology, and the sound he produces is very much…

Do not be cautious about this album, because of a few less-than-brilliant releases from FAX lately. This is a pleasant and interesting CD to listen to. The style is a little like Pino and Wildjamin (Xangadix’s latter tracks) for chilled trance that plods along nicely, along with some lush, organic synths and chords. The feel…

For a first album it’s surprisingly mature and advanced effort. High quality recording from beginning till the end. Especially when you compare this to some of Spyra’s other works. Sounds and compositions are just about as advanced as on his latest albums. I was pretty surprised to hear this for I started from the later…