Somewhere Greener Than Here
Marsimoto—the alien alter ego of German rapper Marteria—has been to the third planet twice already. Now he’s on the fifth. Roman five plus Earth equals Verde, which is green, which is the only possible name for an album that sounds like lying on your back in a field while something small and warm hums just past the edge of perception.
The beats come from Nobodys Face, Ghanaian Stallion, Robot Koch, Kid Simius, and several others who seem to have been briefed on the specific frequency at which the brain most willingly lets go. They hum and crackle in that classic Berlin-green fashion—Synapsenkirmes, synapse fairground, and I can’t think of a better word for what this record does. Things press and shudder. Something rattles. Something else pulses. Marsi builds joints like mnemonics and mnemonics like joints, which is to say everything connects to everything else if you hold it at the right angle.
Tracks like Immer wenn ich high bin, Chicken Terror, and Solang’ die Vögel zwitschern, gibt’s Musik arrive already feeling like summer classics—songs you’ll end up associating with a specific afternoon you haven’t had yet. This is music that requires a patch of direct sunlight, two or three friends who don’t need to fill every silence, and a willingness to let the world’s ongoing disasters recede for the length of a playlist.
The planet was already lost. Marsi just found somewhere better to be.