Egopusher - Beyond

“When we started working on this record we told ourselves that anything is possible and nothing is off-limits.” – Alessandro Giannelli

Beyond is the first single from Egopusher’s upcoming album which carries the same name. It was produced by David Hofmann and recorded in what the band refers to as “28 magical days”, between Engelberg, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany. Like with their previous material, this song started as an improvisation, but this time the fellas only kept short sequences, which they call “distillates” ie. magical moments, and used them to create the track in the studio, from ground up. 

”It might sound weird, but it’s as if we grew from a duo to a proper band, and finally found our signature sound. In the past our individual instruments were more in focus, but now they are just there to serve the song.” – Tobias Preisig

Stylistically, this music still falls under the group’s established brand of soundtrack meets club, except that the clubby elements got rougher, darker and punchier, while the classical-contemporary inflections more complex and eclectic. Oddly enough, the result is a more cohesive and defined sound. The song structures are full of unexpected turns and the arrangements multiplex – evoking futuristic, alien architectural objects or the advanced visual technologies of psychedelics.

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Egopusher are drummer/producer Alessandro Giannelli and violinist Tobias Preisig. Their music is a visually loaded amalgam (think synaesthesia) of classic and advanced electronica and contemporary-neo-classical. It’s the type of music that begs for wide-screen movies to be shot to.