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After the 2020 album "Lieder Für Geometrische Stunden", Sankt Otten finally make us happy again with their new release "Symmetrie Und Wahnsinn" (Symmetry and madness).

Sankt Otten like images of infinity. In the religious sense of meditative mantras, or also in the mathematical sense of an elongated curve that eventually returns to it's starting point. "Bis Das Helle Licht Uns Holt" goes exactly in this direction with it's classical use of sequencers and a sound carpet of choirs. Sound worlds that, through a clever repetitiveness, barely noticeably guard the constant changes in the compositional mesh like a secret and only reveal what is to be discovered by listening closely and letting it be seen.

The duo Sankt Otten, founded in 1999, has been releasing on Denovali since 2009. With their now 12th album they give us again a gem of timeless instrumental music. The holy trinity of Krautrock, Ambient and contemporary Electronics, but always stylistically confident and unmistakable Sankt Otten.

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1. Hymne der melancholischen Programmierer 4:24

2. Die glücklichen Unglücklichen 3:31

3. Sei symmetrisch zu mir 3:41

4. Die Ordnung des Lärms 10:00

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5. Luftspiegelung der Sentimentalitäten 6:37

6. In der Endlosschleife 2:15

7. Angekommen in der letzten Reihe 6:32

8. Bis das helle Licht uns holt 8:04