Carefully Kept Secrets by Deep Imagination

Deep Imagination’s fourth album, “Carefully Kept Secrets,” will be released in 2025 in the form of a sonic update. The 2017 longlayer, produced with many art rock elements and mixed by Thorsten Rentsch (Art Of Infinity) at Renaissance Studio in Cologne, has been remastered. This allows the warm and Floydian vintage sound of the album to be experienced anew. After taking a break from his Art Of Infinity project in 2012, Thorsten Sudler-Mainz produced the album “Carefully Kept Secrets” with his solo project Deep Imagination’, which was released in 2017 and featured various art rock elements. In doing so, he worked with musical elements that had previously been heard on the Art Of Infinity productions. 

The instrumental, purely electronic chapter of Deep Imagination’ ended here. In addition to keyboards and pulsating electronic basses, electric and acoustic guitars, female vocals, choirs, spoken words, percussion, and saxophone were now also used. 
With its gentle harmonies, expansive keyboard pads, the ethereal vocals of Ann Kareen Mainz, Günter Kaufmann's virtuoso guitars, and Byron Metcalf's unique percussion loops, “Carefully Kept Secrets” is an album that offers art rock and ambient lovers alike a cornucopia of music to dream to.
In addition to long tracks and genuine trips such as “Wings to Fly,” “Deeper Than Trance,” and “Dancing With Ghosts,” the album also includes the space pop track “Paradise in Space.” The opener “Carefully Kept Secrets” immediately shows where the journey is headed—into an imaginative, vast, and imaginary world full of mysterious Floydian sounds.

Press-Clippings:

There are some virtuoso guitar parts spinkled all over this album, very well sustained by some splendid keyboards that should appeal to a large palette of music fans... If you enjoyed Endless River or the last two David Gimour solo records, this album could very much be to your liking. (proggnosis.com, Canada)

Stylistically, Carefully Kept Secrets has nine delicious pieces of atmospheric, electronic ambient, supported by synthesizer and percussion ... In terms of production and sound quality, the production is very high quality and it is recommended to take the time with Good headphones to enjoy the sound in full. (articmist.org, Spain)

From the outset, you are immersed in an atmosphere like the fabulous "PULSE" by Pink Floyd, the listener is unstoppably transported to a mood that Waters and Gilmour certainly do not deny ... It is a journey between ambient and atmospheric rock ... The German artist brings together on a single album the know-how of several iconic bands and musicians of the atmospheric stage ... Simply sublime ... (MusicInBelgium.net, Belgium)

"Carefully Kept Secrets" also includes some musical guests such as singer Ann Kareen Mainz, guitarist Günter Kaufmann, US percussionist Byron Metcalf, as well as his two Art Of Infinity companions Thorsten Rentsch (guitar) and Stefan Höllering (saxophone). In this recording Thorsten creates a mixture of traditional electronics and atmospheric artrock ... The wait was worth it because Thorsten Sudler-Mainz has once again created a great work with the new album of his project Deep Imagination, which is so bursting with atmospheric moments. A very nice, recommended album. (musikzirkus-magazin.de, Germany)

... "floydian" in this case means that the relaxing-atmospheric side of Pink Floyd, which has been especially developed on "The Endless River", serves Deep Imagination as part of the Artrock component... Thus the guitars, which are held in the spirit of David Gilmour, which are presented in front of a spherical sound, can exert a healing effect with Deep Imagination. (Babyblaue-seiten.de, Germany)

"Spherical electronics, discreet percussions, ethereal vocals and the corresponding guitars make "Carefully Kept Secrets" a work of ambient music with a meditative ambition, on the other hand, the chillout record that Pink Floyd never made." (Eclipsed Rock Magazine, Germany)