Release infos:
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Release Artist.....: Zazie Von Einem Anderen Stern
Release Title......: Regen:Tropfen
Release Label......: Drifting Falling
Catalogue No.......: DRIFTING018
Release Year.......: 2010
Genre..............: Ambient
Size...............: 62.84 MB
Source.............: CD
Encoder............: LAME 3.98.4 -V0
Playtime...........: 39:40 min
Tracklist:
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1. Intro 1:32
2. Morgen 3:04
3. Raum Ohne Zeit 5:23
4. Regentropfen 5:32
5. ╓landsvisa 3:52
6. Im Juli 5:05
7. Klavierregen 3:52
8. Zwischen Meinen HΣnden 4:10
9. NachtschwΣrmen 3:31
10. Nacht 2:58
11. Outro 0:41
Total: 39:40
Release Notes:
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Maike Zazie Matern composes and performs unconventional piano compositions. Her
work combines classical training with soulful sounds that are familiar, but have
perhaps gone unnoticed. The sparse vocals, which alternate between Swedish and
German, are melodious and help set the tone. The debut album regen:tropfen
(ôrain:dropsö) is coming in early autumn 2010.
Born in 1983 near the old German university town of Heidelberg, MaternÆs first
musical influences, though probably a bit dampened, began in 1982 listening to
her father playing the piano in the living room, her parentsÆ singing voices and
the sound of her motherÆs heartbeat.
Upon fully entering the world, her early influences from her parentsÆ
LP-collection included Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis providing musical guidance
throughout the 80s. The German children song collection Das Liedmobil might have
had similar relevance: A first confrontation with a ôprepared pianoö and a piece
of music with a couple of clocks. In the 90s she began a classical piano
education between Satie and Chopin, and at the age of twelve she discovered the
music of Tori Amos featuring piano in pop music. Later influences came from
Icelandic artists such as Bj÷rk, M·m and Amiina and from neoclassical tunes by
Arvo PΣrt, Peter Broderick and Yann Tiersen.
Maike ZazieÆs first forays into fragmental piano improvisations started along
with the new millennium, and in 2006 she started her solo project zazie von
einem anderen stern.
Her compositions are stunning, brittle, fragile and melancholic, with the
occasional outburst of childish exuberance. Matern takes the time in each piece
to develop a calm, harmonious progression. The classical training shines through
clearly and exceptionally on tracks like raum ohne zeit, which is a hybrid
experiment of music and voice theatre.
The debut album regen:tropfen features piano tones, voice, cello, glockenspiel,
field recordings, found sounds and also silence as an equivalent form of sound.
zazie von einem anderen stern means ôzazie from another starö which is
appropriate since her music has a celestial quality. During 2008-09 she worked
on the debut regen:tropfen, partly in Berlin, where she now resides, in a small
room with a south facing garden view and at Nils FrahmÆs Durtonstudio. And
partly during one winter and one spring in Sweden in a forest near Uppsala. In
spring 2010 Matern also created the multi-instrumental sound poem an open field
for Peter BroderickÆs Compilation numbers which heÆs planning to release
sometime in 2011.
regen:tropfen is an electro-acoustic daydream in stark contrast to the manic
pace of the urban life she lives.
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