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click here to order cd Dissolved Solids
the 5th album. Dissolved solids combining and collecting, forming a cluster of floating particles - could album title and artwork be any more fitting, any more in keeping with the music they represent? On this, their fifth album, the Hamburg quartet, Halma perfects, once again, the art of weightless movement in a viscous, semi-fluid medium. 
Broad Peak Halma's fourth album. Halma's dense soundscapes unfold patiently as if alone. Broken up triads from the baritone-guitar provide the direction, carried by a discreet, but massive rhythm section, surmounted by changing moods from the electric guitar. Halma's relaxed lines mesh like an old reliable clock. Order and caution prevail down to the very traces of sound. 
Back to Pascal Halma's third album. Their music seems to arise spontaneously from the interplay of its elements. Halma use echoes from the early period of Tortoise, from Tom Verlaine and Calexico to paint a mystifying musical picture in soft, dark hues. 
Minifield With their second album, Halma create a new definition for the term slow down. Starting lightly, it develops a sense of heaviness through the accumulating weight of repetition - something that appears to be unusually organic in this age of sampling. 
Container verloren und gesunken Halma's debut is infused with a distant desire. The performance of the guitars is vibrant, sometimes light and smooth, sometimes bold and daring. They carry the listener on gentle Baltic waves onwards to warm South Sea winds and into the glaring desert sun. 
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