For those unaware, Dave Schoepke has been a companion of djummi for quite some time. We met about 5 years ago. Dave wrote to djummi at the time and made me aware of his music, which I immediately found very special.

And so we first released the single “Before Black and White” (2019) and then the EP “Drowning In Snow” (2021). His solo work also includes two other albums that Dave released on his own.

Through all of this work the path now leads to Sun Will Follow, Dave’s third solo album. It is the history of the development of composition-oriented percussion music from the original playful dogma "Drums Only" to the tension between synthesizers and drums.

While Dave initially only used drum sets and percussion in his earlier works and extensively explored the sonic possibilities here, now synthesizers are used in the tracks on "Sun Will Follow".

As a result, his narrative resources have become richer and the stories have been able to gain further depth thanks to this new dimension.

1. Cloudcutter (5:45)
2. Eyes Of Galileo (4:27)
3. Thoughtspoken (3:38)
4. Spiraling Transmuter (4:31)
5. Buried Secrets (7:01)
6. Hopefuel (5:07)
7. Minutes To Go (3:55)
8. We Are The Loop (10:48)

This wondrously crafted, wholly ambient new recording opens on the rhythmically resonating Cloudcutter and the ethereally industrial Eyes Of Galileo and then brings us the stoically-hued, regimented Thoughtspoken and the veritably glistening Spiraling Transmuter.

Along next is the languishing beauty found within Buried Secrets which is in turn backed seamlessly by the quietly tempered Hopefuel, the album rounding out on the more strident Minutes To Go, closing on the magnificently ambient We Are The Loop.

www.daveschoepke.com

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