Philipp Rumsch Ensemble Reflections 7/2/96 The band members build soundscapes

The band members build soundscapes all together where the music is allowed to grow forth freely in compositions like The Railway Engine of the People in Irresistible Motion

Skulls & Roses Pattern is a Mens Hat from Cypress Hill

unreleased Duke Ellington recording is slight at best

Yet here he embraces the soft beauty of bossa nova on his own terms

16 in the UK chart

Philipp Rumsch Ensemble Reflections 7/2/96 The band members build soundscapesOn reflections, Philipp Rumsch explores the reduction of sound and its alteration through compositional parameters, the use and gradual overlaying of repetitive structures of rhythms like patterns or grooves. These rhythms are used as a narrative concept and as an alternative way of arranging time structures, like breathing cycles in contrast to clear metric grids. Starting from the idea of translating the sound language of Ambient, Minimal Music and