Blast Unicorn is the joint project of touch guitarist Alexander Paul Dowerk and electronic musician Tobias Reber. The band's debut album "Van Halo" blends edgy eight string guitars with meticulously programmed drums and synths in a suite of quirky, delightfully disturbing and fiendishly complex compositions. Stylistically indebted to metal music and contemporary electronics but drawing just as much on pop clichees and the classic avant-gardes's formal exuberance, each piece unfolds according to its own inner logic while sharing traits with various other tracks, thus creating an interconnected space of densely compressed themes and ideas.
all songs arranged by Blast Unicorn
Alexander Dowerk Touchguitar, acoustic guitar(6,16), Clavinova(09), Synth(3,6), Programing/add. Programing(1,2,3,6,12,14), Mouth(17)
Tobias Reber Synth, Programming, Voice(10)
Recorded 2010-2013 in Bienne, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany
Produced by Tobias Reber and Markus Reuter
Mixed by Benjamin Schäfer
Mastered by Lee Fletcher
Artwork and Design by Alexander Dowerk