Sula Bassana "CV Sessions"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Instrumental Psychedelic, Space Rock, Krautrock, Electronica
Label: Sulatron Records (CD), Pancromatic Records (vinyl)
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: April 16, 2020 (CD), April 22, 2020 (digital), June/July 2021 (vinyl)
Tracklist

1. A Nice Constellation Of The Planets (9:14) 

2. Wtf? (4:52) 

3. Wollschweber (4:51) 

4. What Is Reality? (4:23) - not on CD

5. Ruins Of Civilisation (20:28) 

6. Foggy Forest (6:27) 

7. Tick Attacks! (4:38) 

8. Little Birdy (5:23) 

9. They Have Landed And They Come In Colours (11:02) 

10. Der Traurige Essigfisch (11:09) 

Total Time 82:27

Line-up
Dave Schmidt aka Sula Bassana (Zone Six) - analog synthesizers, drummachines, sequencers, a polyphonic synth, a string ensemble, a casio SK 1 & SK 60, Stylophone x1, guitars, a bass, Mellotron 

Description/Reviews:

Another more electronic experimental kraut space drone album. CV Sessions are a combination of the time of the Corona Virus and the equipment Sula used in these times, which is analog gear connected and modulated with CV cables (control voltage). Double meaning.

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Electric Moon "Stardust Rituals"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Instrumental Psychedelic
Label: Sulatron Records (ST 1703-2)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: April 17, 2017 (CD, digital), early June, 2017 (vinyl)
Tracklist: 
1. The Loop (8:06)
2. Stardust (The Picture) (10:13)
3. Astral Hitch Hike (4:40)
4. (You Will) Live Forever Now (22:40)

Total Time 45:39

Line-up: 
Komet Lulu: Bass, Vocals, Effects
Marcus Schnitzler: Drums
Sula Bassana: Guitar, E-Sitar, Organ, Mellotron, E-Piano, Effects

Description/Reviews: 

Electric Moon’s long awaited fifth studio album Stardust Rituals has the feel of a lost 70s Psychedelic Rock album with a mix of post-Lemmy Hawkwind (where the bubble of primitive synths and squeals of an audio generator were replaced with Simon House’s Mellotron, piano and organ) and a heavy krautrock vibe (the stuff that wasn’t Neu!, Can, TD or Kraftwerk) as Electric Moon navigate a trip through the deepest depths of the outermost innermost on their journey through the inner cosmos.

Read the full review at theepsychedelicatessen.blogspot.de

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Sula Bassana "Organ Accumulator"

Country: Germany
Genre(s): Instrumental Krautrock, Electronica, Space Rock
Label: Deep Distance Records (vinyl), Sulatron Records (CD)
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: January 31, 2017 (vinyl), March 1, 2017 (CD, digital)

Tracklist: 
1. Lichtbundel (7:48)
2. Morgentau (4:47)
3. The Frogs (5:55)
4. Organ Accumulator (7:04)
5. Grashamster (4:40)
6. Nebelschwaden (9:47)

Total time 40:01

CD comes with bonus EP  "Disappear"
1. Disappear  (10:36)
2. Grong (5:06)
3. Smoof (6:00)

Total time 21:42

Line-up: 
Dave Schmidt aka Sula Bassana (Zone Six) - portable keyboards and organs, synthesizers, drumboxes, e-piano, effect pedals, guitar, bass, drums, mellotron and vocals
Komet Lulu (Zone Six) - vocals (7)

Description/Reviews: 

Time has come – once more: Sula Bassana walks on electronic trails again and produces an album in the attitude of electronic krautrock! After the successful forerunner «Shipwrecked» (2016), which was built mostly on electronic instruments, the sound is a bit more relaxed on this album. «Organ Accumulator» accured on the application of portable keyboards and little organs, also synthesizers, drumboxes, etc...
The track «Lichtbuendel», for example, was recorded almost only on a Casiotone 403, played via the fat effect board and guitar amp. «The Frogs» almost sounds like a John Carpenter soundtrack, whilst the title track is the by far most spacerocky track. «Grashamster» is the most krauty one, with loads of Farfisa Syntorchestra and Roland Vocoder Plus, which (together with a Yamaha PS 30) also builds the sound-footing of «Nebelschwaden», a slighty Vangelis influenced song.

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Sula Bassana "Shipwrecked"

Country: Germany
Genre(s):  Psychedelic, Space Rock
Label: Sulatron Records
Format: CD, vinyl
Release date: February 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Moonbase Alpha Alpha (9:28)
2. Shushi Express (10:47)
3. No Time : No Eternity (6:19)
4. Planeta Bur (9:14)
5. Shipwrecked (4:43)
6. No Way (2:57)

Total time 43:28

Line-up: 
Dave Schmidt aka Sula Bassana - everything

Description/Reviews: 

Though primarily keyboard/synth/electronic driven, the opening track Moonbase Alpha Alpha has a rocking and somewhat Motorik rhythmic pulse. The beats and melodies give the music a Kraftwerk/Neu! feel, the drones, floating electronica and syncopations inject a bit of sci-fi soundtrack, and the whole feels like a pulsating and grooving slab of electro robotic yet soundscape enveloped Space Rock. Shushi Express ups the rhythmic ante with a dancey tribal groove which is coupled with a pulsating Eastern flavored chant drone and shamanic melody. I like how Sula combines multiple contrasting yet seamlessly cohesive repetitive elements to create a hypno-throb meditational groove meets alien dance party piece. No Time: No Eternity is like an Eloy/Floydian Space-Prog soundtrack anchored by a single attention grabbing throb beat and a spellbinding Mellotronic string melody. Sula escalates the trance-throb effect on Planeta Bur, which is characterized by mesmerizingly swaying harem scarem Arabian melodies, drones and atmospherics. The title track is a peacefully somber yet uplifting electro string ensemble that my mind’s eye sees performed among the planetarium dome stars. And No Way is a brief early 70s analog synth sounding call to cosmic prayer coda to this outstanding set.

Read the full review at aural-innovations.com

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