Outland

Renowned touch guitarist Markus Reuter is one of the stalwarts of the DiN label. His initial collaboration with label founder Ian Boddy was the releases Distant Rituals (DiN2). Since then he has been involved with several other DiN projects, including Zero Ohms & Bernhard W"stheinrich. Looking to do another collaboration with Boddy, Markus composed several long soundscape improvisations over the summer of 2020. The duo realised that with the pandemic they would not be able to physically work together in the studio at the same time. Boddy took these ambient starting points and using his vintage Roland System 100M modular synthesiser began to arrange, cut up and shape these into a coherent album. The work is conceived as two long 20 minute suites.