Ra is not so much composing music as painting soundscapes with electronic keyboards

When bouncing back and trying to catch up with faster moving lovers

was founded in 1977 in Solingen and began playing concerts in nearby Düsseldorf

and sets the bar for the sprawling compositions that would characterize the group in the years to follow

Such phenomena can only occur

KASSEL JAEGER / STEPHAN MATHIEU / AKIRA RABELAIS - Zauberberg LP NDW Ra is not so much10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY REISSUE. Few years ago, an idea germinated while reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. An idea not driven by the narrativity of the book, but by the traces and the aura invoked in it. That was it: an audible auratic journey trough the memories of a place lost in the heights of the swiss mountains. A century after the events depicted in the book, we went where the story took place, trying to capture the remaining sounds that