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Picture Credit: Electric Mud Electric Mud - The Inner World Outside Release Date: February 01, 2022 Label: Timezone Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 48:40 Genre: Progressive Post Rock  / Cinematic Prog Art Origin: Hannover , Germany Less than two years ago, Electric Mud from Hannover, the capital of German federal state Lower Saxony, released their monumental album " Quiet Days on Earth ". Justifiably, the 70-minute release received tremendous echoes from the music press and from the Prog community. Driven by this success, the former duo consisting of Hagen  and Nico  has grown to become a sextet since then. The project has hence become band, or even an ensemble. With reference to the word ensemble, an introduction to the recent development of Electric Mud can be given. As a sextet, the band from Hannover is now able to create a way broader sonic image. While the pieces on "Quiet Days on Earth" have already conveyed a meditative and soothing Neo-Classic and Ambi...

Picture Credit: Electric Mud Artwork: Gerald Oppermann   Electric Mud - Quiet Days on Earth Release: May 28, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Length: 79:10 Genre: Post Rock , Prog Rock Origin: Hannover , Germany Lower Saxony's Electric Mud might be known to many fans of Progressive Rock. And they still will be after their newest album "Quiet Days on Earth". And yet, something is different. Nico Walser  (guitars, keyboards, fretless bass, noises, drum programming, co-composing, audio engineering) and Hagen Bretschneider  (music conception, bass, video editing) are entering new territory on their newest album. Still proggy, "Quiet Days on Earth" contains influence from Neo Classic, Post Rock and some Ambient or Berlin School sounds. Smooth soundscapes and opulent arrangements define the auditive experience on this album. Intelligent Prog Rock merges with atmospheric Post Rock. Meanwhile the basic mood is carried by a multilayer dreamy air of Electronic...