Raphael Vanoli - Ventschau Format:Vinyl LP and a Brit-funk and boogie

and a Brit-funk and boogie treasure by Powerline

Bruce still had a strip of the original stage curtain

Dave Swarbrick found details of the trial in a junk shop

with ten spirited tracks that resonate with a powerful directness

When the time came to commit them to tape

Raphael Vanoli - Ventschau Format:Vinyl LP and a Brit-funk and boogieVentschau is Raphael Vanoli's second solo album, following Bibrax. The album takes its name from a small village in northern Germany where Vanoli stayed on writing retreats between 2018 and 2023. The forest, and long stretches of being alone in it, shaped how the music moves. Ventschau is an ode to that love of the forest poetic and personal, with more room than before for melody, harmony, and song like shapes. Mantra like figures recur; on several