''Dimensional People'' is the eleventh studio album by German electronica group

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. The 2018 album aims to be one orchestra piece letting musicians express freely instrumentally or vocally and features more than 50 collaborators including Justin Vernon of

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, The National's

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and

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, Spank Rock and Zach Condon of

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. Most of the album was recorded in 2017 in the studio April Base in Wisconsin.

Release

Mouse on Mars debuted ''Dimensional People'' at an academic conference at the

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in March 2018 and released the album via

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on 13 April 2018 on CD and vinyl. The first single off the album, released in January, was "Dimensional People III", featuring Justin Vernon.

Reception

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, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Dimensional People'' received an average score of 71% based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Accolades

Live performances

August 24, 2018 -

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, Hamburg, Germany February 9th 2019 - Musica nova, Helsinki, Finland with Moritz Simon Geist and Tyondai Braxton October. 2019 - 43. Leipziger Jazztage, Leipzig, Germany

Track listing

All tracks written and composed by Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, except where noted.

Personnel

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– violin, voices *Michelberger Bar – ambience *JT Bates – drums * Amanda Blank – voices *Helen Bledsoe – flute *Michinori Bunya – double bass *C.J. Camerieri – trumpet *Christine Chapman – French horn * Eric D. Clarke – piano, voices *Bruce Collings – trombone * Zach Condon – engineering, voices *Phil Cooks – banjo *

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– guitar *

– guitar, string arrangements *DJ Delish – DJ *April Base Frogs – ambience *Matti Gajek – electronics *Moritz Simon Geist – electronic accordion *Sam Greens – engineer *Trever Hagen – trumpet * Lisa Hannigan – voices *Patrick Hetherington – guitar, voices *Noah Hill – voices *Azar Kazimir – art direction *Benjamin Kobler – piano *Max Köhrich – mastering *Ben Lanz – trombone *Ben Lester – pedal steel *Mike Lewis – saxophone *Dirk Leyers – engineer *Matthew McCaughan – percussion *Michael Rauter – cello * Rob Moose – violin *Zach Morgan – engineer *Nathan Plante – trumpet *Melvyn Poore – tuba *Axel Porath – viola *Dirk Rothbrust – percussion *Anatole Serret – voices * Spank Rock – vocals *Louie Swain – piano, voices *

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– voices * Andi Toma – bass, drums, electronics, guitar, piano, processing * Justin Vernon – guitar, voices *Hannah Weirich – violin * Jan St. Werner – electronics, harmonica, piano, processing, voices *Dirk Wietheger – continuo violoncello

References

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