Jonas Reinhardt - Mask of the Maker

2013 release from the Electronica artist. After a couple years experimenting with group arrangements, Jesse Reiner (Reinhardt's mastermind/alter ego) returned the project in 2011 to it's solitary roots, birthing the distant moon terrarium Music for the Tactile Dome, the Klaus Schulze-spawn the Prime Revealer, plus last year's Italo-kraut shredfest Foam Fangs. All of which, in retrospect, feel like mere promising precursors to his pumping, cosmos-slaloming electro-opus Mask of the Maker. Crafted bi-coastally (San Fran and Brooklyn) over the course of two years, and incorporating an eclectic web of multi-instrumentalist collaborators including percussion genie Damon Palermo, Diego Gonzalez, Phil Manley (who also engineered some of the sessions), Tim Soete, Steve Moore, Clint Newsom, Michael Barron and Meryl Press. The record's nine compositions represent the loftiest heights of the Jonas Reinhardt Xperience, fusing deep kosmische moods with jet-propulsion lab experiments, classic galactic Italo, soaring starblood synth workouts, funky astral ragas, psychedelic dust clouds and rare mantric guest vocals.