One of Berlin's most influential and well-loved imprints, Morr music has had such an impact over the merging of electronic and Indie musical disciplines that many consider the label to have invented its own genre. It's impressive roster is certainly a testament to this fact - the likes of Lali Puna, Múm, Isan, Seabear, Tarwater, Opiate, Ms. John Soda, Tied & Tickled Trio, Electric President, Styrofoam, The Go Find, and B.Fleischmann making for an impeccable roster. With almost 100 Albums in its catalogue, Morr Music is a label that truly has something for everyone.
Accelera Deck
Accelera deck is a twenty something american who has had a myriad of releases on various labels such as; endorphin, blackbean, rocket racer and pitchcadet, spanning formats as diverse as cd/12"/7" and even some limited edition cd-r's. he has received glowing reviews and ample radio play in the
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B. Fleischmann
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born 1975, vienna. has been taught piano and drums, and took part in different bands, which preferred rather loud and harmonic guitars. with the last two bands "speed is essential" and "sore" concerts on different locations in austria have been performed. The cd "my ....
It all starts with an ambiguous invitiation: "Welcome Tourist"! A kind-hearted Bernhard Fleischmann invites travellers to make themselves at home in his musical world, furnished with musical souvenirs from his own travels.On a more subtle note, Fleischmann wants to criticize a state of mind that
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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
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Being an old friend he maybe doesn't have to introduce himself any more. But Bernhard Fleischmann is too well-mannered not to. "Hello microphone, hello voice", that's what he lets "sweet william van ghost" sing right at the beginning, accompanied by a warm and yet cautious piano. He reveals
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Benni Hemm Hemm
So much time didn't go by. And quick it was, too. Not only the sounds and texts for Benni Hemm Hemm's second album "Kajak" were written within a few, concentrated weeks. The recordings in Sundlaugin, the studio of Sigur Rós, were also done within only four days. During four magical days eleven
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Bobby & Blumm
"BOBBY and BLUMM" are Bobby Baby and F.S.Blumm.
"BOBBY BABY" is Ellinor Blixt, born 1983 in the South of Sweden. She is touring a lot with her band "it's a musical!" and as "Bobby Baby". She arranges a pop-camp for teenage girls in Sweden and Germany ('popkollo'/'Ruby Tuesday Rock ....
bomb the bass - lali puna
many people may have frequently asked themselves where the man behind bomb the bass disappeared after producing some of the first dance records some of us have listened to in their lives. well tim simenon (as you may have guessed this is his name) is now living in amsterdam, doing what he always
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Borko
How does a punch in the belly sound? On an evening, somewhere in the east of Iceland, in a small town, in front of a small church? Björn Kristiansson has written a song about it. Or better: after it. After a punch in the belly, somewhere in the east of Iceland. It's called "Spoonstabber", an
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Butcher The Bar
Joel Nicholson has just packed the removal cases, his guitar and the instruments. It's good that his music is so easy to transport from one place to another, between the places and to the people. Once, the 22-year-old Briton has described the cast list of his intimate band as "me and my
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Christian Kleine
`There should always be music´
First things first: Christian Kleine, Berlin-based multi instrumentalist and software crack, prefers music as a means of communication. Following two 7 inches, remixes for Bomb the Bass and Mum, forays into the great unknown with Herrmann & Kleine as well as ....
Contriva
The noise of fingertips on guitar strings. The sonorous feedback of a humbucking coil. The swinging reverb echo of a valve-driven amplifier. That is what makes the beginning of "Separate Chambers". And with the people and the instruments in-between the sounds. Curious, laid-back, light-footed in
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Couch
Figur 5, the fifth album. Figur 5, as in figure skating maybe, that is also structured by the rigorous choreography by means of "figures". The choreography of Couch-songs has always been rigorous, too. Or, to put it more clearly: it has always been unambiguous. Each instrument, each sound is at
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Duo 505
The Duo 505 is actually the brainchild of a restless hipster from Vienna. His name is Wolfgang Kopper and he is a regular face on the Gurtel, an area in Vienna, where lots of clubs, venues, musicians and artists settled down over the last decade. It was here that he noticed two completely different
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"Forget about lyrics to convey feelings or moods: It’s all in the music, in the melodies, its harmonies. After all, these tracks don’t need words to say a whole lot. The same is true of their genesis: Bernhard Fleischmann and Herbert Weixelbaum hardly discussed any ideas or musical concepts while
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Electric President
"I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold"
Music sounds different by the sea than at any other place: Burt Bacharach's Pacific Coast Highway, Jim O'Rourke's Ghost Ship in a Storm, or those Teenage Symphonies to God which Brian Wilson, the big baby being scared of water, composed in his ....
The wind blows the sounds away. It's foggy. Beads of dew glisten on the leaves. Outside, in the small tool shed the light is still on. The ocean is not far away. At the place where Florida pours into the sea Ben Cooper has recorded a second album together with Alex Kane. And they worked again in
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F.S. Blumm
on his lp debut on morr music, frank schültge aka f.s.blumm presents a multitude of lovely popsongs and atmospheric soundscapes. mondkuchen seems like a coulorful picture transformed into music, telling little stories in many layers. its tension covers a wide field from crushed acoustic sound
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Having released on Tomlab, Audiodregs, Staubgold and others F.S. Blumm now returns to Morr Music for his second album following the debut "Mondkuchen" (Morr Music 021, 2001).
The album's title itself continues to write Blumm's wordless (his-)stories about arrival and departure, about movement
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F.S. BLUMM likes to get on his camping van with his guitar, drives to the south and writes his tracks on the bench in the back. On the road, in the tent, when it's raining, between barking dogs, beneath a blue sky, getting ready to jump into the sea.
Before, F. S. Blumm has immersed himself ....
Fat Jon & Styrofoam
Two in a room. Surrounded by buttons and cables, by guitars, synthesizers, microphones. Fat Jon and Arne van Petegem have recorded "the same channel" during a few weeks. Through days and nights, interrupted only by short coffee-breaks and longer walks. In Arne's studio in Antwerp the two docked
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Guitar
After half a century´s worth of electric guitar heritage - how can, for just one tender, fragile, ephemeral moment, guitars be made to sound interesting and gripping again? What can we wrench from the classic setup guitar/beat/vocals in the studio without turning into yet another footnote to Chuck
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Guther
Even if Guther consists only of Julia and Berend, they form a band, not a duo. This is important to them. Guther, born in the summer of 2002, is not only the band's name but also Julia's last name. It is a hint at her pivotal role within the band. If you ask Julia what kind of music Guther makes,
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If one squints into the sunset, contours get blurred. Things come to an end and begin in a different manner. Fugitive points of light play their game with the retina. If one squints into the sunset, one doesn't see clearly. And still one sees good. "Sundet" knows a lot of sunsets, though. Julia
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Herrmann & Kleine
How, do you think, does a blessed child feel while scattering his toys all over the floor. You'll know. After you've listened to our new record.
Besides, you'll listen to it again and again.
Tinkling beats with an almost anthem-like approach. The `Kickboard Girl' melody can hardly ....
You know what it's like. You wander aimlessly through the streets, maybe trying to forget something, when all of a sudden the sun breaks through the clouds and turns everything into gold. In an instant all of your mind will be completely absorbed by this light and you will have forgotten anything
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ISAN
Saturday. You're on your way to the fleemarket. `Come around at 1.00 pm. I might have something for you then', the old man told you yesterday. He opens the trunk of his car and lets you have a look inside. Heaven, made from analogue circuits. The old man smiles, mumbles something about his attic
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Isan, that´s robin saville and anthony ryan, who met in sunny circumstances in leicester/uk.the term isan stands for "integrated services analogue network", and beside other reasons it reveals their interest in using dodgy old keyboards to make dodgy old noise. but with their new 6 track mlp on
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if you happen to live in the uk and tried recently to get a dsl-connection, you probably have seen hell. no chance, at least in the south of the country. this is where robin saville and antony ryan kept a whole legion of telecommunications technicians busy connecting their two studios with every
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when everything falls into place, something great can come to happen.
robin saville and antony ryan from leicester did a lot more than was actually planned when they were founding their integrated services analogue network. they not only found themselves a very nice little corner in the world ....
What nobody knows is that Integrated Services Analogue Network (ISAN for short) is really a secret garden in southern England. In these mild climes, two men in their early thirties founded Britain's first synthesizer home where neglected and forgotten instruments find a new way in life under the
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Maybe the pencil would be an excellent image. As the softest of all writing implement, it is always close to vanishing, to being wiped or erased. Maybe this album, if it were a painting, it would not be oil on canvas but rather a pencil drawing. White on grey. Reduced and open at first sight. Rich
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Robin Saville and Antony Ryan, two English gentlemen who create music together under the nom de plume Isan, return with their sixth full length album for their spiritual home of Morr Music. It’s been a few years since Isan’s previous outing, the delectable electronic esoterica of Plans Drawn In
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It's a Musical
A piano sparkles in the ears, tentatively and softly. Only a few times later there is an euphoric wind section - and with it one question: "Oh, why is it so hard to come up with some art?" The song's title is "Pain Song" and in its laconic irony that simultaneously has an honest and serious
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Lali Puna
things seem to be easy for lali puna, one band splits, another is formed. after two months someone is interested in doing a first release. after another few months a next offer is expressed. in the end someone asks for doing an album and now you´re also part of the story ...
lali puna aka ....
"Right now Lali Puna are favorites of both Radiohead and Andrew Weatherall - a few months ago the latter admitted he was listening to Lali Puna on a never-ending loop...." (Les Inrockuptibles | 06.2001).
For the last three years Valerie Trebeljahr has been quietly whittling away at her very ....
The "Left Handed" 12"/mcd is the first sign of life since Lali Puna released their brilliant and much lauded album "Scary World Theory" in 2001 and the split 7 inch together with Isan on Italy's Unhip label last year.In the meantime Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher have been working on
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"Faking The Books", Lali Puna's third album, is a maverick display of pop sensibilities applied to a world gone wrong. All the ingredients are there : The killer hooks, the subliminal fusion of generic undertones, Valerie Trebeljahr's alluring vocal delivery that at first soothes the senses and
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This is the follow up single to Lali Puna's third album "Faking The Books" which has been released to worldwide critical acclaim in april 2004. The cd version includes a video to "Micronomic" realised by Parisian director Luis Briceno (www.metronomic-productions.com), who has already worked
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When there are four musicians in a band it can sometimes happen that each member brings their own personality to the table - groping towards an original formula that their audience will recognize as uniquely their own. With "Faking The Books", Lali Puna's most successful recent album, the band
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"More than half a decade has elapsed since the release of Faking The Books, Lali Puna's third (and hitherto most recent) long-player, but the band's impact on the climate of electronic rock music remains palpable. Along with sister-group The Notwist, this Weilheim quartet have helped map out
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Limp
20. A healthy age to topple old icons and leave prejudice behind.
Not only have Limp, four youngsters from Odense/Denmark and (besides Lali Puna) second band project on Morr Music, been making music together for 10 years but their current release `orion´ manages to stake out delicate tranquillity
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Múm
In conjunction with Múm's fifth album, Morr Music releases 'Prophecies & Reversed Memories': A 10inch, that contains one album track and two songs exclusive to this release. Three songs, which pefectly show the variety of Múm's music. Prophecies... is merely a naive and overly sweet chorus,
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Man´sbestfriend
Sole has been independently releasing hiphop music since 1994. Despite a cold industry reception, he has sold over 15,000 copies of each of his major releases "Bottle Of Humans" and "Selling Live Water," and recieved countless accolades from magazines like Spin and Rolling Stone, down to
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Manual
involved in music since at least 6 years manual aka jonas munk jensen from odense/denmark still is a really young artist, who just "morphed" from former post-rock-guitar days to a brilliant composer of modern electronic music (without forgetting his roots....in a certain way!).
after an ....
the world is a small place. thankfully there are people out there who are capable of making it look and sound a little bigger than it is. one of these people is jonas munk jensen from odense, a small town in denmark, who calls himself manual to work on a kind of music that, like most great works of
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Masha Qrella
With 'Unsolved Remained' Masha Qrella now releases her second solo album. Her debut Luck (which for many soon became one of the most important new indie releases of the season) was conceived as a surprise, prepared in secret. But this time surely some friends of her music are holding their breath
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In October 2007, Masha Qrella was asked by Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) to put together an evening's performance as part of the "New York-Berlin" celebrations to mark the venue's 50th anniversary. Under the heading "Broadway - Cradle of Popular Music", the
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Ms. John Soda
On their album "no p. or d.", released on Morr Music in October, Ms. John Soda have taken unusual steps towards a new pop direction, where the melody, clarity, emotional directness and timelessness of song structures supersedes the importance of aural experimentation. At the same time they wanted
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Ms. John Soda are Stefanie Böhm and Micha Acher, both part of the creative sphere around notable German label and distributor Hausmusik. After the overwhelming media attention bestowed upon the latest albums by Lali Puna, The Notwist and Tied & Tickled Trio, now a wider audience, too, has realised
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Ms. John Soda are Stefanie Böhm (Couch) and Micha Acher (The Notwist, Tied + Tickled Trio). Their debut album "no p. or d." was released in autumn 2002 and probably marks the most timeless piece of pop music on Morr Music to date. On this record, emotion extended a friendly hand to
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To start with a little story: A story of a band, let us call it Ms. John Soda, and a concert journey that led up to Canada and nearly would have gone wrong because of a missing visa of Misses. John Soda. Or Mister. John Soda? The misunderstanding was quickly cleared up but maybe the lady of the
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Múm
In a way it was only a matter of time before múm would end up on Morr music. Anyone who has had the pleasure of listening to the Icelandic quartet's celebrated debut album `Yesterday was dramatic, today is ok´ knows that múm's `eye shutting-bicycle beats, sounds and melodies´ would feel suitably
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This album was recorded very shortly after me and Gunni met Kristín and Gyda and we became a four people band. We had just been two in the band before and released a split "10 with the girl-band Spunk and played a few concerts. Yesterday was dramatic - today is ok was mostly recorded in a tiny,
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Opiate
Finally, the long established friendship with Copenhagen's Thomas Knak leads to the first proper Opiate release on Morr Music. What started with Knak contributing remixes for Piano Magic (mm 008), The Tied & Tickled Trio (mm 014) and Bomb The Bass (mm 018) as well as tracks for the "Blue Skied
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Pascal Pinon
"Pascal Pinon are the twins Jófrí∂ur and Ásthildur, two girls from Reykjavík, Iceland. When they were only fourteen they got together with two of their friends and decided to start a band. Using the instruments they had, Pascal Pinon worked in the twin's bedroom. At the same place they played
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People Press Play
The art of understatement, likeable and restrained. That is how the self-titled debut by People Press Play begins. Synthetic sounds form echo-loops that, in a very similar way, could easily stem from Kevin Shields' guitar as well. Rhythms take a deep breath, a woman's nonchalant voice changes
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Phonem
'ilisu´, phonem´s third release for the morr music label, keeps with the `water´ theme of last year´s `hydro electric´ full length. the album takes its name from the controversial turkish dam building project and apart from giving this album a suitable title it also reflects phonem´s strong
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Piano Magic
"There is no need for us to be alone", Piano Magic state in one of their tracks. This, although short, statement sums up what the London-based collective of musicians around Glen Johnson is all about. Founded in the summer of 1996, Piano Magic, who always favored the 'revolving door' membership
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Populous
"What is a compound without an element?" A Tribe Called Quest, 1991
22 year old Andrea Mangia comes from the italian province. Strictly speaking, he's from Sogliano Cavour, a small town in South-Apulia, an area which might be known better as the italian boot's high heel." Believe me, ....
If you come across a teenager or early tween who is into HipHop nowadays, it's almost a surprise if they don't understand the genre as the ultimate and dodgy mainstream between Bling-Bling and Crunk, but appreciate HipHop's golden era starting in the late 80s instead. With his debut album
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Populous With Short Stories
The affair with the opportunities. The coming of age in post- and pop modernity. Andrea Mangia could tell you a track or two about that. Currently on "Drawn in Basic", the third album - released by Morr Music once again - that the young man from Lecce, Italy, has published under the name of
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Radical Face
This record started with a simple idea: What if houses had memories? What if, when we lived in them, our stories bled into the walls and became a part of the house? What if our ghosts were always going to haunt the places we've lived, along with everyone else who's lived there? So some songs are
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Seabear
This album doesn't blurt it out: There is no loud "Ta-Dah!", no exclamation mark. "The ghost that carried us away" flatters in a rather unobtrusive way. However, it has encircled you after the third song at the latest. Fragile hymns of nonchalant casualness, created by the 24-year-old Sindri
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"Defying its humble beginnings as the lo-fi solo project of Icelandic singer/multi-instrumentalist Sindri Már Sigfússon, Seabear has morphed into a rambling experimental/indie/folk septet. Joining Sigfússon (whose unassisted musings are now released via his Sin Fang Bous moniker which just made
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Sin Fang
"It's been only three years since Iceland's new king of lo-fi layered lushness, Sindri Már Sigfússon, began his official recording career. “Summer Echoes”, the new and second album of his solo-project Sin Fang (he dropped the “Bous”) is now already his 4th album release (including 2 records of his
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Sin Fang Bous
Welcome to the Wunderkammer. Pop music with a bow, a present from Reykjavik and from Sindri Mar Sigfusson. A present that he gave to us and especially to himself. A surprise album, a search game in terms of pop music.
At the beginning there was an atmosphere of breaking up. Whereas on the one ....
Surf City
An anachronism right at the beginning: Surf City was founded in a video library, in this dying out relict of an analogue age. When Davin Stoddard and Josh Kennedy ran into each other one evening in their small town in New Zealand Josh had just bought a sound card and Davin a four-track Davin bought
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Tarwater
Good news coming up for Tarwater, even better ones, too. After leaving Kitty-Yo, Ronald Lippok and Bernd Jestram have found a new artistic home. "The Needle Was Traveling" is their fifth regular album and their first release on Morr Music. It shows the duo that in 1996 sprang from East Berlin
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It's the sound, not the song. At least at the beginning. Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok sit in their recording studio located in the heart of their city and turn the knobs, press the buttons, shift the regulators. Until they find a sound, until a sound finds its way to them. A rhythm, a melody, a
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The Go Find
The Go Find, Morr Music's latest signing, is a one-man band from Antwerp, Belgium. The face and the voice behind it belong to 28 year old Dieter Sermeus. He could easily become 2004's indie poster boy, and not just because he knows how to use a guitar and an iBook to create beautiful pop songs
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Following the September release of The Go Find's full length debut album "miami" (morr music 047, lp/cd), this is the accompanying single. It contains the album tracks "what i want" and "over the edge", without a doubt two of The Go Finds's most outstanding songs.
Both are the go find ....
Picture this: A warm early summer night. A golden ocean. A magnificent view. In the background, a record of modern pop songs is playing, nonchalant and elegant in equal measures, with touches of rock, dance and singer-songwriter introspection. Often, the tracks have an air of Fleetwood Mac's
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"Imagine the sound of cereal hit by milk in the morning, only heard if you listen closely. A sound that is comforting and addictive. This kind of innocent image from a daily routine fits the music of The Go Find. It’s never offensive; it’s warm and soothing, but intriguing enough to grab your
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The Year Of
A soft humming. A clarinet from a distance. Disconnected sounds, searching, waiting. With "Mantra" "Slow Days" begins as expected - at least with regard to this line up. Bernhard Fleischmann, Christof Kurzmann, Burkhard Stangl (here as Paul Kling), Martin Siewert and Werner Dafeldecker are all
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Tied & Tickled Trio
since the mid-90s more and more boundaries between rock, electronica, and jazz have been broken down. the tied + tickled trio is known for pushing genre mix-ups even a bit further. combining sampling and editing techniques with traditional (collective) improvising, this band works like a strong but
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With their third studio album "Observing Systems" the Tied & Tickled Trio has delivered their most complex self-portrait of a freely-operating music collective. Altogether, the 15 pieces on "Observing Systems", some of them not more than highly elaborate and articulate "ideas" , form a very
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A concert. The Tied & Tickled Trio on a Friday in April. Different cameras, different focuses: portable and fixed ones, producing sharply resolved and coarse-grained encoded pictures. A concert also as a metaphor of the way of working of a fluid, swirling sound-collective. Jazz, electronics, the
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An early record. In retrospective. A remarkable set off back then in 1996. A record that became important in both worlds, indierock and electronic. And a record that was not too serious with homogeneous scenes and sounds. Six musicians from the Bavarian triangle Munich, Landsberg, Weilheim. Six
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An intimate overture. Woodwind instruments in a whispering dialog. With "octant" this second album of the Tied & Tickled Trio begins far away from the Storm and Stress of their self-titled debut. It begins in a mood that is typical for "EA1 EA2", which was originally released on the small
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There's no brass section, nowhere. There are no jazz-thetics, in that special sense how the Tied & Tickled Trio has made them audible, at least in German guitar-based underground. As well as in Electronica of the late 1990ies and the first years of the 21st century. I don't want to talk about
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Tied & Tickled Trio and Billy Hart
"With versatility comes the risk of spreading oneself too thin. Musical versatility is especially nice, but it can be a burden. Especially if the musician feels the urge to actually realise all their many ideas. For then you are adding massive organisational demands to the problem of channelling a
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Various Artists
It basically all started, when a band from southern Germany suddenly realised that a band from the South of England produced the best music one could put on a turntable. So, Morr Music, back then busy negotiating an album deal with this English band and flatmate of one of the members of the German
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1st US tour in 2003 compilation CD, including B.fleischmann, MS. John Soda and Christian
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This has been a promo only release for Japan, initially. Morr Music teamed up with their favourite Nippon music magazine Afterhours in order to promote the label's first ever japanese tour in spring 2004. Isan, Styrofoam, Dieter Sermeus aka The Go Find and label head Thomas Morr were the lucky
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The label's second US tour in 2004 with lali Puna, Styrofoam, The go find and
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Bernhard Fleischmann & Tarwater : Japan 2005
Made for Japan, at first. Made in Berlin. Made in Vienna. Last year Bernd Jestram, Ronald Lippok and Bernhard Fleischmann were on tour together across Japan. The former ones under the name of their band Tarwater, the latter simply as Bernhard ....
The perfect, personal mix of friends and family – few are fortunate to realise and release such a compilation. With his second, very intimate grasp of music's status quo (after "Putting the Morr Back into Morrissey") Thomas Morr again delves deep into his own musical history. Now that many
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The ear listens, backwards. An acoustic breather and yet three steps beyond. This compilation of Morr Music's little sister A Number of Small Things begins with six brand-new songs (two on each page) that will be released on vinyl in the weeks to come. More on that later on.
First, we go further
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Are sounds sent on a journey they come back in echoes. This compilation is widely traveled - around half of the world and to another time. To the 1980ies when just in New Zealand the archetype of what was called Indie Pop later on was pressed on vinyl and soon defined a new way of how Indie pop has
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Wechsel Garland
Jörg Follert was Wunder, now he is Wechsel Garland. Great expectations? ("Große Erwartungen") One can easily trace the atmospheric relationship between the two projects: the synthesis of lightness and deep melancholy. A combination that is nearly impossible. How then? ("Wie Also?") Like an
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