Singularities, by Rene Splinter

Singularities

by Rene Splinter

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€8.95 EUR
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Factory pressed CD

Includes unlimited streaming of Singularities via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 2 days

Purchasable with gift card

€10 EUR
Full Digital Discography

Get all 3 Rene Splinter releases available on Bandcamp and save 15%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Modern Ruins, Frames, and Singularities. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

€22.91 EUR (15% OFF)

	1.	1.Singularities 15:06
	2.	2.Lucid Dreaming 08:37
	3.	3.The Time Traveler 06:07
	4.	4.Timescapes 12:27
	5.	5.Lemniscate 07:31
	6.	6.Before Babel 03:31
	7.	7.The Lighthouse 07:41

about

Dutchman René Splinter is a new name on the Groove Unlimited label. But he is not unfamiliar to Groove, because he already gave a concert at the festival “E-Day” in 2011 which is organised every year by Ron Boots and his colleagues of Groove. Also, he donated three tracks to the special sampler that was released to celebrate that day. Next to this, René paid a contribution to the compilation-album “Dutch Masters” with a composition “Singularities” is his first album on Groove, after his earlier cd’s “Almery” and “Transit Realities”.

On ”Singularities” René invites the listeners to an expedition through all four dimensions and beyond. It is an album about time travelers, which we all are, weather we want it or not. René is a big fan of Tangerine Dream and that can be heard very well throughout the whole album. And where many electronic musicians choose to take TD from the seventies as a main source of inspiration, René has taken the TD-sound from the first half of the eighties and mixing this with his many own ideas into an excellent combination. The titletrack opens the album softly with atmospheric sounds and beautiful, Vangelis-like, solosounds. After this, rhythms fall in, and sequences that resemble TD’s “Logos” enter the scene. One of the trademark TD-sounds from the mentioned period, were the crystal clear and totally unique sounds from the PPG Wave computers. René also uses these quite often, like in “Lucid Dreaming”. A track like “The Time Traveler” could easily have come from one of TD’s many soundtracks from that time, including the brass and drumsounds. There is an amount of melancholy in René’s music, which we can hear in “Timescapes”. One of the best pieces from ”Singularities” is “Before Babel” where he shows his more reflective side, using a piano and great ambiences. The piano returns on the last track “The Lighthouse” which well be called the highlight of the album. This is also a track that could be part of a movie. The solo is also great. It is almost if Johannes Schmoelling plays the solo himself!

With “Singularities” René shows that he is a great musician and composer. Listening to his music, you wished the years had been standing still for almost thirty years. It is a long time ago but that time can be brought back through René's music. So, a time traveller René is indeed.

2012. Paul Rijkens / The Netherlands

credits

released January 1, 2012

license

about

Rene Splinter Netherlands

discography

Modern Ruins

Jan 2016
Frames

Jan 2016
Singularities

Jan 2012

contact / help

Contact Rene Splinter

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Rene Splinter, you may also like:

A night at Blackrock station
by Gert Emmens and Ron Boots

supported by 8 fans who also own “Singularities”

Great work from these two legends! I can't believe they haven't colab'd before! eugene51
go to album
TempUs
by Unisphere

supported by 7 fans who also own “Singularities”
go to album
Conquest of the Moon (as Penterakt)
by Kubusschnitt

supported by 7 fans who also own “Singularities”

A wonderful soundscape to visualise & meditate on a better New Year, & how music can truly help to plan it. Favourite Track: Con. of the Moon. Listener-Part-Time
go to album
Shrines
by Lachlan R. Dale

Post-rock musician and World Within Worlds label head Lachlan R. Dale returns with his debut full-length, a suite of ambient explorations. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2024
go to album
The Cloud Machine
by Andrew Heath

Inspired by the simple innocence of his own childhood, Andrew Heath composes soothing drones, rich in texture. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 22, 2024
go to album
touched by an angel
by Klein

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 9, 2024
go to album
Out: The Sessions
by Perge

supported by 7 fans who also own “Singularities”

The Colour Of Water reminds me of "Tubular Bells" but this is way better! S G
go to album