a r t i s t : F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm
t i t l e : Music For Lovers, Music Versus Time
d a t e : 2010
l a b e l : Sonic Pieces
c a t : sonic pieces 008
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Ambient/Experimental/Instrumental
r l s. d a t e : Jun/2010
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 46,6 MB
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CD, limited edition of 339 copies with handmade book covers.
Music for lovers, music versus time. Isn't love the opposite
of time? Time can seem to go on forever when you are in love,
but the moment you begin to grasp at the passing days, hours,
minutes, then love is already beginning to decay. 'You can't
hurry love', as they say.
On this album, F.S.Blumm and Nils Frahm took the time to
appreciate all the tiny details in a sound that many would
never take the time to notice at all. Taking recordings culled
from previous sessions of friends playing cellos, trumpets,
vibraphones and more, the two Berliners began to improvise
around these recordings and craft them into something far more
abstract and expressive. Unleashed from the constraints of a
'pop song', these recordings began to take on a life of their
own and whereas once they existed simply to serve the song,
here they develop their own language where hair brushing
against string or air vibrating across reed speaks volumes. To
call this album a remix-album-in-disguise wouldn't do it
justice, but somewhere in there, remnants of some of Blumm's
'pop' work with Old Splendifolia and Bobby & Blumm can be
discovered.
For those people out there who categorise their record
collection by genre, this album may cause difficulties. From
one minute to the next, you can be thrown from the off-kilter
midnight jazz of 'Heber' into the Ali Farka Toure-esque space
lullaby of closing track, 'Wanda Marimba'. Blumm & Frahm's use
of subtle processing and manipulation of the sound may at
times remind listeners of Sweden's Tape: a comparison not
given lightly. Both Blumm's expertise on guitar and Frahm's on
piano are shown through restraint rather than through
unnecessary 'over-playing', and ultimately their restraint is
echoed through the other the aspects of this album.
There is an uncanny depth here which goes beyond what might
first appear as simple arrangements. Even though stripped to
their core, each songs holds enough goodness to continue to
surprise with every listen. To unlock every hidden asset of
these short stories in song form, you must let your thoughts
wander through the annals created by the musical musings of
two musicians putting love into every note. Take your time.
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01-KUGLER [07:23]
02-RONE RE [03:51]
03-WRITING LETTERS TO MYSELF [03:49]
04-HEBER [04:37]
05-LENZ [04:29]
06-SUGAR COATED FENNEL SEEDS [03:09]
07-LICHT-TEIL [02:46]
08-ONWARD ONWARD [04:11]
09-WANDA MARIMBA [02:59]
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