Swiss Instrumental Progressive Rock artist Roland Bühlmann published the official visualizer for the single “Secrets” taken from new album “GAPVIS” out on May 02, 2025. Watch the video through the YouTube player below:
“GAPVIS” is my seventh solo album and the album title is an acronym formed from the first letters of the track titles:
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As a friend of the non-verbal and abstract:
[2] Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
[3] There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Psalm (Tehilim) 19:3-4 (KJV). Unfortunately I have not found anything in English that corresponds to the German translation of Buber/Rosenzweig.
Sources of inspiration:
Aare (river), Aspiegg (Emmental, Switzerland), auroras in Switzerland (on 11 May 2024), Josef R. Bühlmann (my grandfather who played several instruments: clarinet, mandolin, mandola, violin, guitar, double bass), Lake of Burgäschi, cloud images, John Coltrane (jazz saxophonist), Josquin Desprez (composer), Die Schrift (The Scriptures, German translation of the Tanakh by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig), Emme (river), Flame Drop (prog band), Genesis 2:19, Japanese green tea, Ezekiel 1, Hesychasm, C.S. Lewis, MRI examinations, nature in general, Arvo Pärt (composer), pinhole photography, Pointe du grain (Bevaix, Switzerland), post-rock, Heiko Powell (autistic artist), Psalm 19:2-4 (especially 4!), Steve Reich (composer), Terje Rypdal (guitarist, composer), Schnapshölzli (close to Hersiwil, Switzerland), Sound path in Grimsel (Schwarzbubenland, Switzerland), Steven Silberman (book: NeuroTribes), sunrises and sunsets, David Torn (guitarist, composer), walks, wine.
The artist states: “I play electric, nylon and bass guitars, aeon sustainer, Korg MS-20, logic software synthesizer, , grasses (2), kalimba (3, 6), and various objects as percussion.“
Played Instruments:
Electric Guitars: Bernasconi Mistral Custom, Steinberger™ GM4S, Yamaha SLG200N NT Silent Guitar™, Yamaha RGX 620Z
Bass Guitar: NS Design™ WAV4 Radius RD
E-Bow: tc electronic® Aeon Sustainer
Synthesizers: Korg MS-20, Logic Software Synthesizers
Various instruments: Kalimba, , Grasses
Percussion: Branches, Cooking Pans, Oil Tank, Stones, Vase
“I dedicate this album to the Swiss Carl Lutz (1895-1975). He was a diplomat in Budapest during the Second World War and saved 62’000 Hungarian Jews.” – Roland Bühlmann
Purchase the album on Bandcamp:
Tracklist:
