An Moku — Shapes (for a Name)

  Buy on Bandcamp Buy on Apple Music Stream on Spotify Shapes (for a Name) by An Moku Catalog Number: PM19Release Date​: Nov 2nd, 2023Formats: Cassette, DigitalEdition: 100 The concept behind Shapes (for a Name) began with the end of Grenzler’s previous album on Puremagnetik, Less (2021). That explored the artists’ thinking about the visual arts, including the paintings of Giorgio Morandi, and captured in sound what Grenzler described as the “architecture in my mind, an environment to shape.” Shapes, then, is both a conceptual and literal further step in his thinking. “I can't remember what might have triggered my fascination with the Bauhaus,” Grenzler says about the new album.”It could be a piece of furniture, a painting.” He describes his initial recordings as disappointing, but later travels to Weimar and research in his home city of Zurich rekindled questions about the movement across all its multiple manifestations. Grenzler specifically searched for Bauhaus ideas in music,