APPARAT, has shared the details of his new full-length LP5. The LP will be released via Mute Records on March 22nd, along with the news the Berlin-based artist, has shared a video for album track “DAWAN.”

LP5 is Apparat’s first release since 2013’s Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre), and follows two studio albums, II and III (Mute / Monkeytown) by Moderat, the trio he founded with Modeselektor’s Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary.

APPARAT on LP5:

“I was only able to make the record this way because Moderat exists,” he says. “Having a huge stage with Moderat gave me a setting for grand gestures and meant I could unburden Apparat from these aspirations. I don’t have to write big pop hymns here; I can just immerse myself in the details and the structures.”

Still hymnic, LP5 doesn’t rely on dramatic gestures and theatrical amplification, instead it lives off delicately sculpted sounds crackling alongside filigree beeping and twitching.

Like previous Apparat albums, the new release sees Sascha Ring collaborate with cellist Philipp Thimm. On the album you can also hear trombone, trumpet and saxophone, a harp, a double bass and other strings. Tracks were developed over endless group improvisations and lavish orchestral sessions – some of these sessions are only apparent in the final mix as fluttering echoes, just barely noticeable. The album was recorded in Berlin at AP4, JRS, Vox-Ton & Hansa Studios, mixed by Gareth Jones and Sascha Ring.

Apparat
LP5
Tracklist
Mute

1. VOI_DO
2. DAWAN
3. LAMINAR FLOW
4. HEROIST
5. MEANS OF ENTRY
6. BRANDENBURG
7. CARONTE
8. EQ_BREAK
9. OUTLIER
10. IN GRAVITAS

Apparat 2019 Live Tour
April 3 – Prague, Czech Republic – Spectaculare Festival
April 5 – Naples, Italy – Teatro Acacia
April 6 – Bologna, Italy – Estragon
April 7 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz
April 10 – Riga, Latvia – Palladium
April 11 – Vilnius, Lithuania – Loftas Art Factory
April 12 – Kiev, Ukraine – Film Studios
April 16 – Munich, Germany – Alte Kongresshalle
April 17 – Paris, France – La Gaite Lyrique – SOLD OUT
April 18 – Hamburg, Germany – Kampnagel
April 19 – Rotterdam, Netherlands – Motel Mozaique
April 20 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ
April 23 – Leipzig, Germany – Täubchenthal
April 26 – Brighton, England – Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
April 27 – London, England – Barbican
April 28 – Brussels, Belgium – AB
May 3 – Llubljana, Slovenia –Kino Šiška
May 4 – Krems, Austria – Donau Festival
May 10 – Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom
May 17 – Moscow, Russia – Izvestia Hall – RESCHEDULED
May 18 – St. Petersburg, Russia – Aurora
May 30 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound Festival
June 22 – Katowise, Poland – Tauron Nowa Muzyka
July 26 – Lugano, Switzerland – Roam Festival
August 10 – Basel, Switzerland – Kaserne Open Air