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january.02.2004 - #1225
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artist : FS Blumm
album : Lichten
year : 2003
label : Audio Dregs
genre : Electronic
catalogue : ADR 051
url : www.audiodregs.com
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Tulpen 03:57
02.Ankern 02:58
03.Terrase 04:35
04.Blank 06:12
05.Ohne Orte 04:49
06.Zehn Tage 02:47
07.Esrste Bohne 03:23
08.Lichten 04:22
09.Verlang 04:32
10.Zweite Bohne 02:43
10 tracks | 40:18 mins | 55,4 MB
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Frank Schⁿltge "Blumm" was born in 1968 in Bremen and lives in
Berlin now where he is working as a musician and a producer for
radioplays. He has previously released albums with Cologne's
Staubgold, Tomlab, and Berlin's Morr Music and with Lichten
presents his first stateside release. Besides his contributions to
the Sack & Blumm project (together with Harald "Sack" Ziegler) he
is involved in the production of radioplays with Rininat Rebresch
("Rebresch & Blumm") and with an instrumental chamber-postrock trio
from Berlin called KINN. Though his music often finds a welcome ear
with adventurous electronic listeners his songs are spun entirely
with live instruments in real-time. The sound is naturalistic and
free in a way that often leaves people hard pressed to find any
modern comparisons. ôThe german word 'Lichten' means not only
'Lighten' but also to clear, to thin, to weigh, to lift... For this
album I wanted to do less: to use less words and say more, to use
less sounds and use only the voices which are really needed, the
ones which have a meaning, which have soul. Clarity and simplicity.
Compact and compressed, To be more direct and get to the point of
having said everything earlier, that I wanted to say, Without any
distractions or decorations, without sound-design-babbling. Still,
I think, that my music can be at the same time 'musique
d┤ameublement' and 'Attentive-Listening'. 'Lighten' (in the sense
of 'to weigh' is also an answer to the title of my last album
'Ankern' (to anchor'), which includes another private reference:
last year I dropped an anchor in Italy, I lived there for half a
year,then things didn't work out and problems were faced
('lightened') and now I'm back in Berlin, able to go anywhere
again, in other words: I'm looking for simplicity, because clarity
is simple and clarity is 'The Best': All One! Clarity is often sad,
because it arises when you part with something. When you decide!
When you part with a connection to which you committed your heart
to: you quit because it became clear, that everything became
knotted, became complicated. You cut off the knot and everything
gets light and simple, because everything is clear, clear and
beautiful, sad and beautiful. The songs are mainly written on the
guitar while staying in the countryside during this long summer in
Italy not listening to music, not listening to noises. During my
life as a musician/guitar-player I mainlyused to do Noise-Rock I'm
quiet shure that this is not audible anymore in F.S.Blumm-Music,
but for me there is no sense of making music, if there isn't this
pressure, urgency, hunger and need which I used to express by being
loud, by screaming. I'm not screaming anymore but I hope that I
always kept this tension, that this urgency is still audible. So, I
think that quiet-careful-shy-sensitive-music must not be equal to
low tension, must not be flabby.ö Longing to explain something you
can't explain and go on trying to explain it forever, -F.S.Blumm
(August 2003). --darla.com
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