Rotor to Record Seventh Album Next Month
Though you wouldn’t guess from the photo above — the one below is more recent — Berlin-based instrumental heavy stalwarts Rotor are getting prepared to enter the studio next month in order to record their seventh full-length. It’s untitled as yet, but it seems like a safe enough bet that after six numerically-named LPs they’re probably not about to drop that habit without good cause. So perhaps 7 or Sieben or something like that.
Rotor‘s most recent album, Sechs (review here), came out in 2018 through Noisolution, and it seems the next record will continue that alliance, which is fair since they’re not exactly a band one would want to let go having once signed them. Whatever the impending LP is ultimately called it will be Rotor‘s third for Noisolution. Drei in that sense, at least; the band’s actual third album, 3, came out in 2007 through Elektrohasch.
They are regulars on the European festival circuit and in 2022 have appeared at Sonic Whip in the Netherlands and Desertfest Berlin already. I haven’t seen their name tossed around much as regards the Fall festival season, though that means approximately nothing since, you know, my brain. Plus announcements could be forthcoming, especially if it’s a quick recording session and a Fall release. Given the proggy complexities they sometimes get up to, however, I’d say it’s more likely it’ll either come over the winter — would certainly be a highlight of the Dec.-Feb. dead zone of releases, much as there still is one — or when things thaw out ahead of the Spring 2023 touring thaw. Frankly, it’s just nice to think about a band hitting the road, figuring they will at some point, taking it for granted in a way, knowing how quickly it can all go to hell.
So, without knowing how long they’ll be recording, when the album will be out whether or not they’ll tour, what it’s called or anything else about it, here are the two and a half sentences the band posted on social media about hitting the studio, dutifully cut and pasted with all journalistic integrity, and turned blue so you know I didn’t write it.
Behold:
We will be recording our 7th full-length album in August this year! The last few decisions are currently being made. Good things take time …
https://www.facebook.com/rotor.berlin
http://rotor1.bandcamp.com/
http://www.noisolution.de/
https://www.facebook.com/noisolution
https://www.instagram.com/noisolution/
