FLOCKS – Lagoon

Format: 180gr LP with download postcard / download

Release date: may 22nd 2026

https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lagoon

New album by FLOCKS, the duo of drone specialist WERNER DURAND and percussionist ULI HOHMANN. Musical landscapes that move between traditional as well as experimental sounds with influences from Krautrock and JON HASSELL’s „fourth world“ aesthetics.

WERNER DURAND has made himself a name with various projects with Dhrupad singer AMELIA CUNI, playing with URBAN SAX, ARNOLD DREYBLATT, HENNING CHRISTIANSEN, DAVID BEHRMAN, ELLEN FULLMAN, CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX, as the co-founder of THE 13th TRIBE, ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER and TONALIENS (with ROBIN HAYWARD and HILARY JEFFERY) plus numerous solo albums, released on labels like Black Truffle, Unseen Worlds or Edition Telemark. Having studied saxophone as well as Indian / Persian flutes, the Berlin based DURAND is a highly reputated protagonist in the drone scene, famous for his self-built wind instruments like buzz-clarinets or his PVC neys & horns. His partner in FLOCKS (and longtime personal friend) is ULI HOHMANN whose early encounters with music from Asia, India and Africa led to studies with the Ghanaian master drummer MUSTAPHA TETTEY ADDY and later Tombak and Daf with NEMAD DARMAN (Iran).

ULI HOHMANN played in a couple of projects that explored the language of classical Persian music, and started building his own stringed instruments (being an educated carpenter). In 2014 he joined DURAND and AMELIA CUNI for the album „Clearing“, and 2018 DURAND and HOHMANN decided to continue as a duo: FLOCKS was born. On “Lagoon”, the duo further explores the aesthetics it has crafted on its selftitled debut (2023, on the now defunct ZEHRA imprint): DURAND and HOHMANN shape drone-y soundscapes based on their self-built wind- & stringed instruments, Persian percussion and subtle electronics, drawing additional inspiration from Krautrock (listen to the irresistible, hypnotique, ever-changing rhythmic pattern of the title track) as well as JON HASSELL’s „fourth world“ aesthetics, placing the duo nicely between tradition and experiment!

The press about the debut “Flocks”:
“The music of Flocks sounds like archaic but highly seductive techno music resurrected from an unknown tribe in the jungle of nowhere but still radiates a strong psychedelic impact.” Eyal Hareuveni / Salty-peanuts.eu

“Magnificent music, ethereal in the best sense of the word, yet very concrete!”
Karsten Zimalla / Westzeit, 5 / 5

Tracklist:
A1. Whirls 10:06
A2. Tidal 10:53
B. Lagoon 20:09

Credits:
Werner Durand: tenor-sax, sinewave drones & fx, invented winds: extended shakuhachi, pan-ney, circular water ney, frog horn, pvc-neys -clarinets & -horns
Uli Hohmann: daf, kanjira, riq, ghatam, tibetan bells, venetian shells, invented strings, bamboo tube zither, electronics
Recorded between 2023-25 at Abendland.studio, Lengenfeld and Haveli studio, Berlin.
Mixed by Werner Durand & Uli Hohmann.
Mastering & lacquer cut by Helmut Erler, mastering.heyrec.org, Berlin, january 2026
Painting by Janos Fischer
Layout & design by kaidoh