Silence

Entitled 'Silence', this album is the work of Robert Henke (the acclaimed software technology developer for Ableton), who has been the sole permanent member of Monolake since Gerhard Behles left in 2004.

The recording is a varied one, taking in both slow & fast BPMs, as well as ambient excursions with, as Robert pointedly proclaims on his website, absolutely no compression whatsoever - his three year stint as a mastering engineer & vinyl cutter at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering has much to do with this decision.

Put together over the course of a year, 'Silence' also takes in field recordings from a variety of places: "Sound sources include airport announcements; hammering on metal plates at the former Kabelwerk Oberspree, Berlin; several sounds captured inside the large radio antenna dome at Teufelsberg, Berlin; dripping water at the Botanical Garden Florence; air condition systems & turbines in Las Vegas, Frankfurt and Tokyo; walking on rocks in Joshua Tree National Park; wind from the Grand Canyon; a friend's answering machine; a printer; conversations via mobile phones; typing on an old Macintosh keyboard; and recordings from tunnel works in Switzerland."