Release : B Fleischmann - The Humbucking Coil
Artist : B Fleischmann
Album : The Humbucking Coil
Genre : Electronic
Source : CDDA
Label : Morr Music
URL : http://www.morrmusic.com/
Date : 2006-02-21
Quality : VBRkbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 8
Time : 43:31 min
Size : 66 MB
1 Broken Monitors 7:08
2 Gain 4:44
3 Composure 5:34
4 First Times 5:10
5 Phones And Machines 5:04
6 Static Grate 4:24
7 From To 5:49
8 Aldebaran Waltz 5:38
The Humbucking Coil is a schizophrenic apparatus. A pick-up that
eliminates the guitar's usual interferences, its white noise, just by
means of doubling them. Two electromagnetic coils turn each other
mute. What solely remains is the pure sound of the vibrating string.
And that what is done with this single sound.
Bernhard Fleischmann named his latest album after the roughly
50-year-old Humbucking Coil. As old as modern pop music: the pick-up, not the
artist. And Bernhard Fleischmann has taken an electronically
amplified guitar. This happened for a first, a curious time. The
Humbucking Coil has become an open, breathing album. Rather soundbox
than hard disk. Being part of a process that has become visible in
different moments on his previous album Welcome Tourist already. In
between, and last year, there was the project duo 505, developed
together with Herbert Weixelbauer. There the groovebox (Roland 505),
here the amplified guitar (Humbucking Coil), there the micro levels
of clicks and cuts, here the warmth of an old valve driven
microphone. Vibraphone, piano, guitar, they all come together in a
still electronic context. The album's cover, this graphic strictness
on an ivory fond; a visual quotation of jazz that gets on very well
with the music inside.
Eight songs came out of this process, songs especially in terms of
melody. Of melancholy perhaps. Songs that linger, that indulge. Songs
that allow a halt as well. Aldebaran Waltz is a slow farewell in
three-four time. According to the background sounds it seems as if
one can hear the door squeak softly. Static grate is a smooth piano
miniature, garnished with the slightly distorted, rustling rhythm
structures that one knows of Bernhard Fleischmann yet and that he
carries on using on The Humbucking Coil. The opening song broken
monitors, euphoric pop in slow motion, carefully arranged around a
guitar's slowed down melody. The Humbucking Coil's recording,
assembling and mixing was done once again together with and in the
studio of Christoph Amann. Besides, the Viennese bricoleur of Jazz
and Electronica Christof Kurzmann being a close friend not even since
Bernhard Fleischmann's debut Poploops for Breakfast of 1999 was
involved in this process once again.
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