M.=addiction by Dictaphone

From the very beginning, Dictaphone was the idea of Oliver Doerell. Born and bred in Brussels, multi-instrumentalist Doerell now lives in Berlin and has been working on the Dictaphone project for the last three years. Together with Roger Döring, saxophone and clarinet player, he has slowly been developing his version of electronically processed slo-motion jazz, which is nothing but a collection of beautiful lovesongs. A deep bass meets an ocean full of warm, enchanting melancholy. m.=addiction feels like a French autumn dream. Strings are struggling against precisely placed artefacts and rhythmic noisy bits. Field recordings from public swimming pools meet strange messages recorded with old dictaphones. Maika Spiegel ('minimal compact') makes one of the tracks even more beautiful with her unique voice. m.=addiction simply makes you drown in a soft, velvety atmosphere.