airman is the electro pop solo project with an innovative show by Stefan Vallbracht from Cologne, Germany.
airman delivers a straight palette of different electronic variations: You will hear SynthPop, Avantgarde, Big Beat, Trance and also driving Trip-Hop elements. But that doesn’t means Stefan Vallbracht hasn’t a central theme. All elements joining to a sound collage – sometimes with vocals – in an intelligent way.
Stefan Vallbracht, the mastermind of airman, doesn’t avoid inconvenience: Some songs are having very vanguard arrangements. The listener is diving into and dealing with the song. The manifold used sounds are taking the hearer to a journey through time and space – but never without a necessary dash of humour.
The songs are unmistakable influenced by Jean-Michel Jarre, Enigma, Yello, Kraftwerk, Propellerheads and by the dark wave music of the 80s like Depeche Mode or Camouflage.
But no doubt, Vallbracht goes a step beyond, is liberating from fixed patterns and blinders of electronic genres and is comparable with hard to classify pioneers like Art of Noise, Björk or unique concepts like Welle: Erdball.
You can call this for sure ‘ElektroTranceSynthPop 2.0’.
airman is also a live event which is, because supported by video, lighting and theatre elements, an extraordinary multimedia stage performance.
On stage airman is performing in example uncommon instruments like a laser harp, rose piano (with real roses), wind controller, music glove (data glove), wii mote, computer keyboard but also show elements like ‘Birdh’ – the bird man, video and laser projections and a remote controlled virtual, tibetian monk.
The show lets the viewer experience an intergalactic passenger flight in which each planet represents a song and is dedicated to a special theme. In between, a virtual stewardess provides information about the flight, the planets and tips.
The flight is available in German or English.
The ‘black’ flight path takes you into the darker realms of dark electro, industrial and synthpop.
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More classic electronica, big beat, trip-hop or synth-pop is approached with the ‘blue’ flight route.
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Also the extraordinary instruments are making airman something very special. For example airman performs a laser harp, rose piano (with real roses), wind controller, music glove (data glove), wii mote or a computer keyboard.
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