Sollmann & Gürtler Gegen Die Zeit

On September 11th, 2015 the audience of the stunning “Rotor” concert series witnessed the first live appearance of John Gürtler and Phillip Sollmann underneath a highway bridge in Offenbach, Germany. Hosted by International Music Institute Darmstadt alongside Institut für Klangforschung Offenbach and HfMDK Frankfurt, the newly formed duo performed an aural conversation on stage within the incredible architectural environment. A year later, an extract of these live recordings became part of the Sky Walking Label compilation “41’36” that now leads to the debut album of Sollmann & Gürtler “Gegen Die Zeit”. Phillip Sollmann and John Gürtler met as studio neighbors in the complex “The Meadow”, rebuilt in 2011 in Berlin Wedding. Exchanging ideas and instrumental advice ever since, they soon became collaborators. An acoustic version by John Gürtler for Sollmann’s scientific Techno project Efdemin was the first result of their exchange.