Boodaman in Overdrive for Subsequent

It took Genevan synth maestro Boodaman – aka Stéphane Caviglioli – ten years to come up with a follow-up album to his debut from 2008. Helped by a Covid-enforced exile at home, “Subsequent”, his third, was completed in a super-fast two years. It is released on 5 February via Threeeknobs Records/Irascible.

Boodaman describes himself as an “addict to synthesizers”, and a “composer of dawless electronic music from ambient to techno”. “Firmly bolted” (according to his press release) to his favourite instruments, Roland SH-101, NerdSeq and other Korg MS-20s, he is a purist of modular synth technology, producing subtly shifting melodic motifs driven along by an undertow of intricate beats.

In case anyone’s baffled by the term “dawless” – according to kmraudio.com it’s a synth term and means the following: “Until very recently, if you wanted to play a live set formed of groups of songs, your main (reliable) option was to take a laptop, a few control surfaces and jam your Ableton sets… but it is with the rise of interest in hardware, that people have become slightly jaded with the concept of taking a computer out for a show…So what does DAWless actually mean? Well it means performing music without the need for a computer or a software environment.”

Boodaman
Threeeknobs Records
Irascible Records