Debut album Van Halo out April 1st 2015

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.

Blast Unicorn Van Halo

Tracklist

Blast Unicorn: Final Exam
Dowerk
Van Halo
Reber
Just Chillin'
Dowerk
Gedankenstrich
Dowerk, Reber
Abteil
Dowerk, Reber
Ghostmodern
Reber
Waterclimber
Dowerk, Reber
König Kaiser Kingdom Castle
Dowerk
Music Face
Dowerk, Reber
Ausgeburt of Love
Dowerk, Reber
Nonnenfinsternis
Dowerk
Hack in the City
Dowerk, Reber
Bobtail Builder
Dowerk
Überhaupt
Dowerk
Hitfall
Dowerk, Reber
Schattenspender
Dowerk, Reber
King Crumbles
Reber
Godshaped Ice Cream
Reber

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

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