Allow by robot koch
Allow, the new album by Robot Koch, is intended to be a soundtrack for inner journeys. It's not music as entertainment, which traps one's attention externally but something that allows you to go deeper internally.
Inner journeys can range from meditation to psychedelic-assisted therapy to deep listening experiences that take you out of your mind and into your body.
The title "Allow" speaks to the power of the mind to either resist or allow something to happen. Allowing implies non-resistance.
So the intention of this album is to invite the listener to move beyond intellectual concepts about the sound and allow the music to take them deeper for expanded states of awareness.
Robot Koch has been a big collaborator throughout his career and this album is no exception.
It features an international all-female group of vocalists and instrumentalists that contribute their unique touch to some of the album tracks:
Norwegian artist Eirlys contributes a beautiful performance on harp and vocals to the tracks Planets and Earth Resonance.
London-based artist Kate Fleur Young is the featured vocalist on Ancestors and New Life. Intertwined with Koch's electronics and carefully crafted frequencies her voice takes the listener on a deep medicinal journey.
Longtime collaborator Delhia de France, joins Robot Koch on the heartfelt Home Again, infusing the track with her deeply emotive and intimate voice.
American-born singer Peia graces three album tracks with her voice, crafting hauntingly beautiful vocal textures and melodies that weave seamlessly with the atmospheric compositions, evoking the delicate sound of a stringed instrument.
LA-based Composer and violinist Savannah Jo Lack lends her sensibility for deeply emotional melodies to the track Ionosphere, which is based on the Schumann Resonance, a set of spectrum peaks in the low-frequency portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum.
Last but not least, acclaimed Brazilian flautist Daniela Mars can be heard with a stunning performance using her Contra Bass Flute on the Album's closing track "Become the Unknown".
The watercolor artwork for the Album and the singles was created by Ecuadorean/Scottish Artist Eileen Hall, who also created the artwork for Jon Hopkins' Music for Psychedelic Therapy.
Tracklist
| 1. | Cascade | 5:12 |
| 2. | Coherence | 4:25 |
| 3. | Ionosphere | 9:01 |
| 4. | Planets | 12:00 |
| 5. | Ancestors | 7:25 |
| 6. | Cosmos | 5:06 |
| 7. | Home Again | 4:46 |
| 8. | Earth Resonance | 8:16 |
| 9. | Changers | 5:30 |
| 10. | New Life | 3:33 |
| 11. | Bloom | 6:41 |
| 12. | Become The Unknown | 4:58 |
| 13. | Light Bed | 4:36 |
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Robot Koch is an award winning producer/composer from Berlin, living in Los Angeles. His unique sound of organic electronic music has been called “Wonderful and Strange – pop music from the future” (John Peel) and has been used on various TV shows and films.
Robot Koch´s music is an intriguing dialogue between technology and nature, futuristic sound design and organic orchestration.