Label: Efficient Space – ES048 Format: LP Country: Australia Released: 2025 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Krautrock, Lo-Fi, Ambient
Reintroducing Soar — the alias of Christian Aebi, serial DIY taper and one-man orchestra from Langenthal, a fog-shrouded town in the Swiss provinces. Krautophobia, ambient lo-fi agriculture, analogue soul balm and slowspeed psych gelati-blitz cardboard pop only gesture towards the sound world he coaxed from his broken Tascam four-track recorder, in attics, churches, junkyards and at the kitchen table.
The spark for Soar was likely time and space, somewhere in the autumn of 1994. Armed with a cable salad of Sixties guitar/bass, fairground drums, mould-speckled organs and toy instruments, Aebi coaxed five albums, an unverified run of 25 cassettes, and a handful of gigs. Mostly issued through Zurich label Corazoo, the records arrived in hand-pasted sleeves, rough-cut reproductions of his teddy bear-fixated artwork that carried the same imperfect immediacy as the music. With Rudi Steiner, performances in galleries, clubs and halls bent into live sound-image happenings — part installation, part film, part flea-market-instrument theatre — invariably leaving the house engineers bewildered.
At the time of his untimely death in 2021, Aebi remained a village secret, his music passed quietly between friends and local ears. Now, Swiss graphic designer and Ghost Riders compiler Ivan Liechti has pieced together a portrait from the afterglow, gathering tangled audio formats, paintings, illustrations, photographs and notebooks with his family, former label and peers. What emerges is a first glimpse of Soar’s intimate cosmos — brushing against Füxa, Spectrum, Dump, Stereolab and King Crimson, but orbiting a dimension entirely his own. (Mint / New)
Tracklist
1. Frame 02:33 2. Unseen 03:13 3. Liquid Sky 04:23 4. Blue Air 04:28 5. Iglu 01:50 6. Flickering Wall 05:09 7. Die Lustigen Sedrunner 03:40 8. Unveil 01:36 9. All Of A Sudden 03:11 10. To Jane Borki 04:29 11. Titnuts 02:06 12. Moonchild 05:21
