Freundliche_Kreisel-Freundliche_Kreisel-(STRLP-057)-WEB-2022-USR

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 ARTIST...: Freundliche Kreisel
 TITLE....: Freundliche Kreisel
 YEAR.....: 2022
 LABEL....: STROOM
 CAT.NO...: STRLP-057
 GENRE....: Ambient
 TIME.....: 38:45
 SIZE.....: 88.96 MB
 QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
 ENCODER..: LAME
 SOURCE...: WEB
 RLS.DATE.: 2022/03/30
 WEBSITE..: https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/freundliche-kreisel

 TRACKLIST

 01) (03:26) Traumlied
 02) (02:28) Lied vom sprechenden Wiesel
 03) (02:52) HΣngengeblieben
 04) (02:32) Einbildung
 05) (02:34) Dreh die Zeit zurⁿck
 06) (01:52) Alleinesein
 07) (03:51) Voller Sorgen
 08) (01:42) Nackig
 09) (02:11) Drohend
 10) (02:03) B÷ser Tag
 11) (01:57) EngenΣsst
 12) (02:48) Begegnet
 13) (01:52) VerspΣtung
 14) (03:29) Peinlich
 15) (03:08) Spiegelbild

 Emerging from Lower Franconia's hidden reverse, Johannes schebler, known as ambient-
 poltergeist "Baldruin" and surreal folklorists Christian Schoppik & Katie Rich of
 "Brannten Schnⁿre"-fame have puzzled and amazed outernational audiences from the
 stranger end of the avant/lo-fi spectrum in recent years. The trio is now
 collectively dreaming as "Freundliche Kreisel", reaching for terra incognita rather
 than common ground on their most bewildering and accessible outing to date. Arch-
 pontifices of the electro-acoustic and outsider-art realm, they fill in gaps and
 invent missing links on the go with somnambulistic ease, confusing the hypersensitive
 and hyaline timbres of contempo-electronic aesthetics with the na∩ve charm of
 Germany's obscure KassettentΣter and mutant-NDW.

 Think Daniele Mana and Lorenzo Senni digitally rewiring the 4-track recordings of
 Gareth Williams' Flaming Tunes or sometimes, much scarier, it feels as if it's the
 other way round. There certainly is an air of whimsical yet post-ironic romanticism
 to the songs contained here, a madcap, tongue-in-cheek ghost story as filtered
 through the transcendental senses of a childhood perspective. This attitude is best
 personified in the disarming innocence of Katie's vocals whose intonation touches on
 nursery rhymes as much as on dirges and bizarre 'schlager' kitsch.

 Heirs to the tradition of magic realism, examining fragments of an arcane sacred
 mundanity like a crack in the concrete of everyday life, Freundliche Kreisel dwell on
 this often neglected microcosmic topography, yielding an adventurous and visionary
 piece of a decidedly Franconian next-level post-modern folklore.


 Released March 7, 2022

 All songs recorded in Wiesbaden and Wⁿrzburg between 2015 and 2020

 Voice by Katie Rich
 Accordion, Voice, Sampling & other instruments by Christian Schoppik
 Electronics, acoustic instruments & Sampling by Johannes Schebler
 Clarinet on Peinlich played by Karoline Mehlig

 All Words by Christian Schoppik
 Artwork by Victor Verhelst
 Mastered by Mathieu Savenay

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