Pole Shares "Tempus," New Album Out November 18

POLE   LISTEN TO “TEMPUS” THE TITLE TRACK OF STEFAN BETKE’S NEW ALBUM

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“German electronica maestro relocates the liminal dub territory of his classic early albums, with a dying Minimoog adding chance and friction to the architecturally rigorous sound design.” – MOJO   “The German grandmaster of minimal ambience goes back to dub…” – The Observer (UK)   POLE - aka innovative German electronic artist Stefan Betke – today shares the title track of his new album, Tempus, out on Mute on November 18, 2022 on limited edition pink vinyl, black vinyl, CD and digitally: https://mute.ffm.to/poletempus    Listen to ‘Tempus’ here: https://youtu.be/f7QCXW1eIqs   Tempus - The tense of a verb group is its form, which usually shows whether you are referring to past, present, or future time.   Tempus exists in a unique space: the production is rich and enveloping, exuding dense yet crisp atmospherics with a striking balance between complexity and compactness throughout. On the new album, Betke explores the connections between the past, present and future (Tempus meaning “tense” in German), linking back to 2020’s Fading – an album about coping with dementia and the loss of memory over time – and his previous work, which includes the ground-breaking trilogy 1, 2 and 3. While each Pole album is distinctly singular, his catalogue glides across ambient, dub, jazz, glitch, and electronica, creating an ongoing evolution that links as much to history as to the future.   The presence of dub within Betke’s idiosyncratic framework of electronic music is a constant, but on Tempus, dub assumes an additional role. The dub effect units used in Pole’s music delay sound, keeping them a step behind the present before they are released, fading away again into a foggy reverb. The pace, tone and echo of dub effects are themselves traversing the essence of past, present and future within the album. It’s also one of the most overtly jazz-leaning records in Betke’s career, but given his inclination to do things uniquely, it’s a deconstructed, mutated and manipulated form of jazz.   Pole’s ongoing musical evolution, while retaining a relationship to previous work, means that he is already naturally building an ever-stronger bridge between the present and the past. However, the deeply innovative sounds that he continues to create, breaking new ground with each record, means that bridge is also being extended far into the future.    The painting on the cover, by Wolfgang Betke titled Großstadtwanderer, links into the themes explored on the album. Betke explains, “I found the whole atmosphere in this totally weird confused head with these little shimmery eyes leaking through the colours to totally fit the idea of Tempus.”   credit: Wolfgang Betke    Tempus Tracklisting 1. Cenote 2. Grauer Sand 3. Alp 4. Stechmück 5. Firmament 6. Tempus 7. Allermannsharnisch After a recent appearance at Unsound Festival, Pole will perform at Festival BBMIX (Paris) in November and in Berlin this December – future dates to be announced.   POLE LIVE 26 November - Festival BBMIX, Boulogne-Billancourt (FR) 13 December - arkaoda, Berlin (DE)   ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY 1 (1998) 2 (1999) 3 (2000) R (2001) Pole (2003) Steingarten (2007) Wald (2015) Fading (2020) Tempus (2022)   Pre-order Tempus Watch the video for “Grauer Sand” Listen to “Stechmück”   POLE: WEBSITE | SOUNDCLOUD | FACEBOOK | SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC | BANDCAMP   MUTE: WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | TUMBLR | SOUNDCLOUD | TIKTOK