Diskret Diskret

Snowed in at an abandoned guesthouse located in the Swiss Alps, long-time friends and musical collaborators, James Varghese and Ramon Ziegler unintentionally became ambient electronic duo Diskret and release the spoils of their reclusive recording getaway on Fri 22 March 2019.

Equipped with synthesizers, drum machines and other wired gadgets, Varghese and Ziegler wandered into the peaks around their native Zurich, unaware of what could emerge from a long weekend of unhurried creativity. The descent of the unexpectedly heavy snowfall broadsided plans to intersperse music making with fresh air and rural hikes, instead being forced to evoke their alpine isolation and the vivid beauty of the whiteout through delicately layered electronica.

After the process they describe now as ‘incomprehensible’, the EP is the only reliable document of a shared dream, created as if in a trance. Four days of recording synthesizers, arranging chords, eating raclette, stacking sounds, automating filters, fondue, creating beats and occasionally sleeping, comes to this. An EP they had no concrete intention of making.