release date: 1 may 2020 (bandcamp) 5 june 2020 (streaming platforms) format: digital label:burning witches records
Rain in Europe is the digital companion EP to the recent full length Hunter Complex album Dead Calm and Zero Degrees. It will be released 1 May 2020 as a stand alone release on Bandcamp (when Bandcamp is waiving the fees it charges musicians and labels to use its service), but is also available for free with the vinyl version of the Dead Calm and Zero Degrees. It will be released on streaming servcies on 5 June 2020.
Rain in Europe was recorded in the same time period as Dead Calm and Zero Degrees, out now on Burning Witches Records, and its predecessor Open Sea, released on Death Waltz Originals in 2019. The amazing artwork was created by KidEthic and the EP was mastered by Darren Page of Burning Witches Records.
tracklisting
1.street value 2.when i was in africa 3.coral way 4.sleep wave 5.television sky
release date: 20 march 2020 (bandcamp) 30 march 2020 (streaming platforms) mid-april 2020 (vinyl) 29 may 2020 (retail) format: lp / digital label:burning witches records
‘There is an unabashed charm that digs into the emotional core of the listening experience that will actually make you feel something. The majority of the compositions are uplifting, bright and hopeful, something sorely needed for these troubling times.’ 4 / 5 chain d.l.k.
‘What Meijer took from them [Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream] is the search for strong melodies and hooklines that can carry the pieces.’ lust for life
‘A great masterpiece and his strongest album to date with a creative but minimal ‘wall of sound’ of synth sounds.’ black magazin
‘Hunter Complex has written some beautiful, rich and textured melodies for this album that move from bright uplift to more shadowed darkness and encompass feelings of loneliness, melancholy, gentleness and warmth.’ karl magi / spinditty
‘Synthpop with a hint of electro, new wave, disco, ambient and krautrock, but always with a full and saturated sound.’ gonzo (circus)
‘Hunter Complex surpasses the soundtrack here by somehow injecting this Death Calm And Zero Degrees with an 80s pop feel, somewhere in between synth pop and italo disco without becoming explicit.’ dark entries
‘It is interesting how one technology is associated with nostalgia and the past, while others are not.’ frnkfrt
‘Tracks full of swelling layers of warm synthesizer sounds, this time more reminiscent of German synth acts like Roedelius or Tangerine Dream than film music. Nothing wrong with that of course.’ oor
‘The new Hunter Complex record is brilliant.’ louder than war
‘Meyer has found a way to use all kinds of sounds and tropes from the past to come up with something that is 2020 at its core: a post-nostalgic ambient synthpop masterpiece.’ stasis
‘To incorporate vintage nineties synthesizers and drum pads, which everyone is happy to have forgotten, into something new and quite flashy. Bold, but also really enjoyable.’ damusic
‘I personally don’t see this leaving my list of top 5 albums of 2020.’ 9 / 10 forever synth
‘It is human and it is mechanic; who said synths have no warmth (oh right, that’s what they said in the 80s). Another great record.’ vital weekly
‘A tad dark, hyper melancholic and above all super entertaining composed.’ 3voor12
‘It is the very best Hunter Compex album yet!’ subjectivisten
‘Magic with a capital M.’ Album of the Week! synthwavefan
‘The latest album [on Burning Witches Records] is Hunter Complex’s tour de force, Dead Calm and Zero Degrees (heard below) and you should definitely buy it.’ vehlinggo
‘Hunter Complex has constructed ten miniature, musical dreams.’ xsnoize
info
The new Hunter Complex album Dead Calm and Zero Degrees was released on 20 March 2020 on the British label Burning Witches Records. Dead Calm and Zero Degrees is the follow-up to last year’s critically acclaimed album Open Sea. The surreal artwork was created by kid-ethic; the LP was mastered by James Plotkin and cut at the world renowned Abbey Road Studios. ‘Dead Calm and Zero Degrees is a refreshing blast of epic open space and industrial mechanics. Expertly crafted by Hunter Complex into a very fulfilling partner to last years Open Sea’, say Darren Page and Gary Dimes of Burning Witches Records.
‘There is an unabashed charm that digs into the emotional core of the listening experience that will actually make you feel something. The majority of the compositions are uplifting, bright and hopeful, something sorely needed for these troubling times.’ 4 / 5
‘What Meijer took from them [Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream] is the search for strong melodies and hooklines that can carry the pieces.’
‘Hunter Complex has written some beautiful, rich and textured melodies for this album that move from bright uplift to more shadowed darkness and encompass feelings of loneliness, melancholy, gentleness and warmth.’
