CV Vision is back with the follow-up to his last album "Im Tal der Stutzer" and presents his sixth studio album "Release The Beast". On this album, he strikes the perfect balance between psychedelic rock, Detroit techno, distorted synthesizers, black metal and library music. In collaboration with Swedish drummer Uno Bruniusson, CV Vision changed his production approach and opted for tried and tested studio methods. "I wanted a rougher sound for this record," he says. "I dug out my two broken tape recorders and patched them up like Frankenstein. That's what holds it all together - there are different styles of music, but the tape recorder is what unites it all sonically."

"Release The Beast" does indeed take many different directions across its fourteen tracks, giving us an insight into CV Vision's entire musical universe. Distorted backbeats and psychedelic chord progressions characterize the opening tracks, with the gentle harmonies of "RTB" and "The Rhythm" contrasted by a raw, magnetic noise. "Dungeon Drums I, II, III" draws on acid and early Detroit techno experimentation, using the cosmic elements of Motor City beatdown grooves (and even medieval black metal melodies) to add a Krautrock twist.
The second half of "Release The Beast" takes a different direction with instrumental jams like "Nikita's Tune" and "It's K-Jazz", reminiscent of the psychedelic soul of David Axelrod and Rotary Connection as well as the wacky DIY experiments of L.G. Mair Jr. To close the album, CV Vision presents the bluesy stomper "Town Talk" and the distorted motorik track "The Jam" alongside the folky incantation of "Brickwall Symphony" and the multi-layered guitar riffs of "Go Your Way".

Although "Release The Beast" is a varied soundscape with different styles, a common thread runs through the entire album. The cover shows the boarded-up entrance to a Berlin stairwell, surrounded by the remains of a long-forgotten party. "It's not just about letting out inner demons," he says, "but rather about completing a creative process. A messy, difficult process, but also one at the end of which something good emerges!"

Embryo:

Odd rhythms, psychedelic sound structures, improvisations with the moment and space accompanied by hypnotic grooves and spontaneous poetry. Embryo is a unique international music collective from Munich that combines Kraut Rock Jazz, free improvisation, inner and non-European rhythms and sounds like no other. Embryo has existed since 1969, spanning generations, genres and borders. They have played with Mal Waldron, Okay Temiz, Fela Kuti, Charlie Mariano and many others.

Marja Burchard, daughter of founder Christian Burchard, took over the band she grew up in in 2015. Since then, Embryo has lived on with her, always searching for new sounds, rhythms and ideas from those who think differently.

"The early seventies from Embryo's founding phase become one with the present time of the current line-up. As if eternity resonates in their music." Crossing time boundaries by Dirk Wanger Süddeutsche Zeitung

"The new Embryo pieces are also a meditation on form and dissolution." SZ February 2022

"With each concert, a cosmic sound journey to new shores is created. The journey is far from over; it grows and nourishes itself from influences around the globe, it undergoes metamorphoses and yet always remains: Embryo. In its current incarnation, the cult band, founded in 1969 and only surpassed in terms of longevity by the Rolling Stones, will be playing one of the Summer Jazz Weeks at Munich's Unterfahrt." September 2021