Drei (City Centre Offices, 2011)
Berlin’s Oliver Doerell and Stephan Wohrmann return with their third album on City Centre Offices as Swod, following 2004's Gehen and 2007's Sekunden. It’s a smart, emotionally involving sequence of melancholic, minimalist sketches, characterised by piano, quivering acoustic timbres and rich electronic ambience- it’s generously melodic and sweetly textured stuff, but with an occasionally scratchy, disturbed atmosphere
Swod is the recording project of Oliver Doerell and Stephan Wöhrmann, two musicians who met in Berlin sometime in 1991. Oliver plays guitar, bass and all manner of electronics – he is also a long-time family member of CCO having recorded two album and an EP under the “Dictaphone” moniker in between composing and performing musical pieces for theatre, installations and film over the last few years. Stephan plays piano and drums, arranging an almost neo-classical structure within a recording that already sounds ghostly and cinematic.
