Sascha Ring, aka Apparat, delivered his most sublime album this year with Krieg Und Frieden. Subtitled Music For Theatre, here was an attempt to soundtrack Tolstoy’s behemoth War And Peace for the stage.

This week, Hove’s imposing All Saints Church found itself one of just a handful of venues worldwide to witness that vision take a physical form.

Built largely from drones and shifts of mood as opposed to the club beats and counter-rhythms Apparat normally trades in, the music veered from shifting fields of static to sweet acoustic guitar passages, with four band members alongside Ring on stage to deliver the show.

Two of these handled the visuals alone and so engrossing were the results that at times the shifting wood blocks, sand granules and flickers from an X-ray made the sell-out crowd forget the great musicianship beneath the big screen.

The star of the show remained Ring – who had one hell of a baritone to boot. He proved that by boiling the essence of great art down to its key elements and twisting and magnifying them, newer, fresher perspectives can be teased out beautifully.