[BD013] 12“ LP & digital
Tomoko Sauvage – Fischgeist (LP)
This is a preview of three songs. You can purchase the whole album (LP & digital) on Bandcamp.

Label: bohemian drips
Release date: October 16th 2020
Genre: Ambient, Sound Art, Experimental

Fischgeist was recorded in a former water tank in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg in August 2019. The nineteenth-century brick building consists of five layered circles, with a spiral staircase in the middle leading up to an exit to a hilltop. Inside, it's humid and cold, the temperature always around 8–10 ℃. The building’s acoustics produce a long reverberation that lasts up to 20 seconds.

‘One day between recording sessions, a man, a passerby, wanted to look inside the building. He told me that it used to be full of fish. For a second I imagined a huge round aquarium with loads of fish swimming around in circles. Then I realized that he meant dead fish were kept there, to be sold on markets during the GDR era. But the image of fish swimming in the space stayed with me.’

In conversation with the space of the water tank, Tomoko Sauvage searches beyond the limits of her self-invented ‘natural synthesizers’: porcelain and glass bowls, filled with water and amplified with hydrophones.

While she continues to develop some of the classic techniques heard on her previous album Musique Hydromantique (Shelter Press, 2017) – hydrophonic feedback (Kinetosis Study) and ‘fortune biscuits’ (porous pieces of terracotta that emit tiny singing bubbles) (Deluge) – here new elements are combined with delicate gestures to make curious noises: stroking bowls’ surfaces to imitate the voices of sea mammals (Metamorphosis), drawing dots and circles by rubbing stones against stones underwater (Exit) …

The underwater amplification of quasi-inaudible sound is even more magnified in the air by the echo of the water tank. Not only tiny bubbles, but also micro-movements of the bones and veins of the hand holding the sonorous objects in the water, are intensely amplified – sounding like a tempest on the opening Deluge.

Sauvage's longtime research into hydrophonic feedback develops with her new obsession with natural harmonics and sympathetic resonance. In Flying Vessels, the percussive notes of struck bowls resonate and turn into feedback loops before decaying, fueled by electric signal gain. Kinetosis Study is a sonic etude on fluid dynamics – the flow velocity, pressure and density of manually shaped water waves directly controlling the aquatic synthesizer's parameters.

August, when the mid-summer Ghost Festival is held, is traditionally known as the Ghost Month throughout East Asia. The spirits of the dead visit their living families, who welcome them with feasts, dancing and music. Miniature lantern-laden boats are released in rivers, to help lost ghosts find their way home.

Animated by formless matter – water, electricity, sound – Fischgeist celebrates a phantasmagoric journey, as the souls of aquatic lifeforms find their way out of the labyrinth of the water tank.

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 35:59

Side A (20:36)

A1: Deluge (6:48)
A2: Metamorphosis (6:59)
A3: Flying Vessels (6:49)

Side B (15:23)

B1: Kinetosis Study (12:22)
B2: Exit (3:01)

[Credits]

Composed, performed and mixed by Tomoko Sauvage
Recorded and produced by bohemian drips prior to Speicher festival, Berlin, August 2019 | Binaural recording with a KU 100 dummy head microphone
Mastered by Andreas Kauffelt in Berlin
Cover drawings by Baien Mōri (1798–1851)
Back cover photo by Richard Berger

© Tomoko Sauvage and bohemian drips – all rights reserved 
www.bohemiandrips.de | www.o-o-o-o.org

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[BD013] "Tomoko Sauvage – Fischgeist"

[BD016] 12“ LP, CD & digital
Nabelóse – OMOKENTRO

Elena Kakaliagou – voice, french horn
Ingrid Schmoliner – voice, prepared piano

Label: bohemian drips
Release date – CD & DIGITAL: September 30th 2022
Release date – VINYL: January 2023 (due to long delivery times)
Cat-#: BD016 | Labelcode: 96928

Genre: Minimal Music, Neue Musik, Experimental, Improvisation, Avantgarde

Video teaser: https://youtu.be/J4rv53KVuNc
Interview at Speicher IV festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ7-uac01yM

Buy here: https://bohemiandrips.de/shop/bd016-nabelose-omokentro/

“OMOKENTRO” is the second release of Ingrid Schmoliner and Elena Kakaliagou’s “Nabelóse“ that sees them blend their voices with the sounds of the former’s prepared piano and the latter’s French horn. Recorded in the big water reservoir in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg as part of the fourth edition of bohemian drips’ “Speicher – festival for site-specific music“ in 2020, this LP captures a one-of-a-kind performance, influenced both by the surroundings’ idiosyncratic acoustics as well as by two very different social environments—with and without an audience. Spanning over 45 minutes, “OMOKENTRO” takes the attentive listener on a journey through time and space—not only reminiscent of the duo’s music reverberating through the reservoir but also through the memories of its enchanted visitors.

The duo draws on a variety of musical influences ranging from New Music to Minimal, as well as, occasionally, Greek folk music, or their own English-language compositions for voice in order to integrate them into their artistic approach. When playing together, they blur the lines between composition and improvisation while being mindful of the resonant qualities of the space and the people around them. The duo interacts with sensitivity and freedom to each other as to the environment and the audience, that become both a source of inspiration and resonant bodies in this process. Ingrid Schmoliner works with a piano, prepared with wooden sticks and even porcupine needles as well as e-bows to approximate the aesthetics of electronic music through the use of mostly acoustic means. Elena Kakaliagou invents unconventional new techniques for her horn, that make the instrument sound like the wind, the sea, or like a roaring animal; a few minutes later the well-known lyrical sound of the french horn accompanies the voice of Ingrid Schmoliner in a more classical duo. 

Nabelóse Linktree: https://linktr.ee/nabelose

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 45:41

1 | A1 – Tauchen (5:34)
2 | A2 – Kern (7:15)
3 | A3 – Walking* (10:44)
4 | B1 – Wolf’s Path* (9:59)
5 | B2 – Amygdalaki* (12:09)

*concert recording

[Liner notes on physical copies]

Composed for the acoustics of the big water reservoir of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Recorded live and in binaural audio during the fourth edition of ‘Speicher – festival for site-specific music’ in August 2020

Dedicated to our friend and colleague Thomas Stempkowski who left us too early; “Pfiat Di, mei Freind!”

[Credits]

Recorded by Alexander Meurer; mixed by Ian Medina & Alexander Meurer
Mastered and cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle in Berlin, 2022
Cover photo by Hans Peter Widmer & Christiaan Stuten from Hans Jenny’s publication ‘Kymatik’
Cover design by Alexander Meurer

Supported by SKE / austro mechana

©℗ by bohemian drips & Nabelóse | all rights reserved | LC: 96928 | www.bohemiandrips.de | www.nabelose.net

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[BD016] "Nabelóse – OMOKENTRO"

[BD008] Die Milchstrasse Flockt (12" LP & digital)
Label: bohemian drips
Release: March 23rd 2018

Recorded in „Kunstkopf Stereofonie“ – headphones recommended

[Information]

While the production of “bohemian drips’“ latest release – “Iván Paz’ Visions of Space“ [BD007] – was dedicated to the exploration of virtual space in a physical context, the label’s next “binaural“ in-house production reaches out to new recording ethics: “Die Milchstrasse Flockt“ [BD008] marks a turning point in the label’s history, as a group of Berlin based artists got together only for this record: The quintet consisted of Ruth-Maria Adam, Alexander P. Jovanovic, Inox Kapell, Josefine Lukschy and Alexander Meurer. They have no collective history or collaborative background – the group was only set to drive out to “Schloss Freudenberg“, a looming Chateau built in 1905, with a truckload of instruments. Their aim was to embrace the possibilities of the space, its historic collection of rare and strange instruments and its acoustics. Formed organically through the time spent in the castle, the album turned out to be an obscure yet beautiful assemblage of strange noises and sounds, staged and amplified through the space itself and the perspective of a “KU-100“ dummy-head microphone. All music was created with a wide range of acoustic instruments and unique sound devices, captured in binaural “Kunstkopf Stereofonie“. 

“Die Milchstrasse Flockt” expanded the possibilities of spacial arrangement during the recording process, resulting in unique soundscapes that might be considered “Non-Music”. The LP takes you back to early electronic music, such as Ash-Ra Temple or Klaus Röder’s “Kristallationen“, despite the fact only acoustic instruments were being used: Side A starts off with playful twists and turns, kraut à la “Cluster“ or “Popol Vuh“, and lets you travel through trippy improvisation into soft-psychedelic landscapes, micro-sounds and unconventional sound-art experiments. 

The A-Side exhausts the possibilities of the castle’s expansive collection of historical instruments such as one of the few “cristal baschets“ worldwide, “singing drums“ or Professor Klaus Fessmann’s "Klangsteine“, and bends the ideas of musical structure. Side B is based on the massive array of gongs of different sizes and materials from the castle’s private collection and can be described as classic drone, with a swerve into primitive music: This facet can be attributed to Ruth-Maria Adam’s anti-classical use of the violin and the recorder combined with Inox-Kapell’s remarkable understanding of the castle’s gong collection’s sonic potential.

The key to this album is capturing the first meeting of five musicians, who all come from very different musical backgrounds. This created a fresh and unbiased scenario for sonic exploration within the unique space of “Schloss Freudenberg“. A scenario prefaced by its transformation in the 1980’s, described by Hugo Kükelhaus as a “field of experience towards the unfurling of the senses and thoughts“.

[Credits]

Musicians:
Ruth-Maria Adam, Alexander P. Jovanovic, Inox Kapell, Josefine Lukschy, Alexander Meurer

Instruments and objects:
Cristal baschet, “Klangsteine“, singing drums, frame drum, guika, orff drumset, tube xylophone, Hohner bass accordeon, santur, celesta, cello, violin, flutes & reeds, a harmonium, a sound chair and 18 gongs of different sizes and material

Recorded live in Schloss Freudenberg in Wiesbaden, Germany in February 2017
Produced, edited and arranged by Alexander Meurer in 2017
Mixed by Ian Medina in Berlin in 2017
Mastered and cut by Andreas Kauffelt at “Schnittstelle“ in Berlin, 2018

Released by bohemian drips
Special thanks to Matthias and Beatrice Schenk

© by bohemian drips, 2018 – all rights reserved
www.bohemiandrips.de | www.schlossfreudenberg.de

[BD008] "Die Milchstrasse Flockt" (binaural 12" LP)

[BD009] "Mazen Kerbaj – Walls Will Fall: The 49 Trumpets of Jericho"

A site-specific composition, recorded live and in binaural audio, in the big water reservoir of Berlin-Pankow.

[Information]

"Walls Will Fall" is a site-specific composition by Mazen Kerbaj which premiered on May 19th 2018. The piece guided 49 Berlin trumpeters through the unique acoustics of a large water reservoir in Berlin-Pankow, whose winding corridors are reminiscent of a labyrinth as in early depictions of Jericho’s ancient city map: According to the old testament, Jericho’s walls collapsed under the sound of seven trumpeters, blowing their horns for seven days while circling around the city. Far from the religious background of the story, it is the idea of music breaking walls and barriers that is central to this composition. During the performance of "Walls Will Fall" the water reservoir’s natural reverberation becomes the accomplice of every sound and movement. As the musicians walk in the space while performing the seven parts of the composition, an acoustic labyrinth unfolds. 

This performance was mainly captured by the 3D-perspective of a binaural “Kunstkopf KU-100“ microphone. Thus, headphones are recommended for listening.

The piece was performed by:

Güley Alagöz, Tom Arthurs, Ulrike Arzet, Nafea Abo Assi, Damir Bacikin, Juri Bell, Johannes Böhmer, Linus Bornheim, Paul Brody, Axel Dörner, Sabine Ercklentz, Ruhi Erdogan, Gabeyre Farah, Steffen Faul, Cornelius Fritsch, Gaetano Gangarossa, Callum G’Froer, Alexander Gibson, Dennis Ginzburg, Nils Lennart Haack, Claudia Habig, Brad Henkel, Didrik Ingvaldsen, Tyge Jessen, Jan Kaiser, Milad Khawam, Carina Khorkhordina, Martin Klingeberg, Anke Lucks, Arvid Maier, Yannick Mäntele, Gisela Meßollen, Fritz Moshammer, Nikolaus Neuser, Frank Noé, Dearbhla Nolan, Daniel Allen Oberto, Kelly O’Donohue, Achim Rothe, Florian Scheffler, Kristine Schlicke, Aaron Schmidt-Wiegand, Leo Schmitt, Paul Schwingenschlögl, Saeid Shafiei, Przemek Swiderek, Mai Takeda, Cornelia Wolf, Armando Carrillo Zanuy

The participating trumpet players come from from Australia, Austria, Cuba, Denmark, England, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Somalia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey and the United States.

[Credits]

Recorded by Ian Medina & Alexander Meurer on May 19th 2018
Mixed and engineered by Alexander Meurer in 2018 
Mastered & cut by Andreas Kauffelt at "Schnittstelle" in Berlin, 2018
Cover artwork by Mazen Kerbaj (after a drawing in Elisha Crescas’ Farhi bible from the 14th century)
Cover design by Alexander Meurer

"Walls Will Fall" is a project by Franziska Buhre & mellowtown in collaboration with Mazen Kerbaj & bohemian drips
Funded by "Musikfonds e. V."

© by bohemian drips, 2018 – all rights reserved

www.bohemiandrips.de | www.kerbaj.com | www.mellowtown.de

[BD009] "Mazen Kerbaj – Walls Will Fall: The 49 Trumpets of Jericho"

[BD010] Microtub – Chronic Shift LP

Microtub is the world’s first and only microtonal tuba trio, exploring Just Intonation and the rich harmonic potential of the tuba. This album features material from Robin Hayward’s pieces „Sonic Drift“ and „Star System“, recorded in the stunning acoustics of the large water reservoir in Berlin-Pankow, reworked and mixed with analogue synthesizers by Peder Simonsen.

Recorded in „Kunstkopf“ stereophony, this unlikely combination of tubas and simple synth pitches provides a meditative and immersive experience, and an auditory glimpse into a truly unique acoustic space. While „Chronic Shift“ zones in on the neutral microtonal harmonies that underly „Sonic Drift“, the synths on „System Reboot“ mainly shadow the harmonics in the giant room, both as sustained pitches and as spaced out droplets lending movement to the track.

Robin Hayward – microtonal F tuba
Martin Taxt – microtonal C tuba
Peder Simonsen – microtonal C tuba

Credits:

Recorded during “Speicher” festival 2018; reworked & mixed by Peder Simonsen, 2019 
Mastered & cut by Andreas Kauffelt at “Schnittstelle” in Berlin, 2019
Cover design by Alexander Meurer; photo on back by Tania Kelley
A collaboration between bohemian drips, microtub & Ace Tunes

© by bohemian drips & microtub, 2019 – all rights reserved

www.bohemiandrips.de | www.robinhayward.de | www.tuningvine.com | www.acetunes.biz

[BD010] "Microtub – Chronic Shift" (binaural 12" LP)

[BD014] 12“ LP & digital
Axel Dörner & Richard Scott – A Journal of Elasticity (LP)

Label: bohemian drips
Release date: June 4th 2021
Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Electro-Acoustic, Sound Art, Improvisation
Distribution: Rubadub (worldwide & digital), A-Musik (Germany)

Recorded during the first edition of ‘Speicher – festival for site-specific music’, this LP represents an abstract measurement of space and a complex dialogue between two dedicated instrumentalists and composers, exciting the heavily reverberating acoustics of the old water reservoir where the festival takes place. Dörner’s unique electronically-augmented trumpet and Scott’s highly prolific array of synthesisers and electronics create a rich, ever-changing textural ambience for the two pieces, which cohere around a mutual listening of the unpredictabilities of each other’s playing. Their compositional approach is given further dimension by their engagement with the space in which these performances take place, whose extraordinary acoustic qualities are directly shaped by the presence or absence of the bodies of the audience. While the A-Side was captured in a ‘classic’ recording session; each individual sound reverberating in the cavernous empty space, the B-Side documents a more dense live performance, the musicians enveloped by a deeply engaged festival audience, whose presence influences both the movements of the sounds in space and the interaction between the two musicians.

The spatial information on this LP was captured with a binaural dummy head microphone (Neumann KU-100) – listening with headphones is recommended for a more immersive experience.

Dedicated to the memory of Astrid Baumgärtner

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 35:59

Side A (15:46)

A1: The Near-field of an Accelerating Dislocation (15:46)

Side B (21:00)

B1: Discontinuity within a Continuum in the Presence of Electromagnetic Fields (21:10)

[Credits]

Music performed by Axel Dörner & Richard Scott during bohemian drips’ ‘Speicher’ festival in Berlin, July 2017
Recorded and mixed by Alexander Meurer
Mastered by Thomas Heckmann and cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle in Berlin, 2021
Cover photo by Hans Peter Widmer & Christiaan Stuten in Hans Jenny’s publication ‘Kymatik’
Cover design by Alexander Meurer

© by bohemian drips 2021 | all rights reserved | LC 96928 | www.bohemiandrips.de

B – Discontinuity within a Continuum in the Presence of Electromagnetic Fields

A – The Near-field of an Accelerating Dislocation

[BD015] 12“ EP & digital
Dog Dimension – Endless Summer (EP)

Label: bohemian drips
Release date: July 30th 2021
Genre: Experimental Rock, Alt-Metal, Grunge
Distributor: Rubadub (physical Worldwide), A-Musik (physical Germany), Broken Silence (digital Worldwide)

Sticky, sweaty, melting: "Endless Summer" immediately transports you to the hottest day of the year. The third EP of Berlin-based band Dog Dimension navigates through a world of dystopian pool parties and throbbing stretches of asphalt, captured on five slick songs that maneuver between experimental rock, grunge and alt-metal on a classic guitar-bass-drums setup: While "Sticky People" is lush with tribal rhythms and hypnotic vocals, "Scrunchy Face" rattles through your ears like a speeding e-scooter on cobblestones. A cool-headed verse and a slow-mosh chorus exchange an affirmative nod on the title track "Endless Summer" – the doom-disco bridge lurks patiently behind the next cowbell. The power trio sprinkles "Doggernaut" with the occasional blast beat, while "Drop Shadow by the Pool" gently grazes avant-rock territory. A record that is, simply put, fun – or to quote the band’s singer: "My brain is hanging on a thread / It’s summer and I’m happy / I don’t want it to end"

"Endless Summer" will be released on July 30, 2021, on the Berlin-based label "bohemian drips" on vinyl and in digital form. Furthermore, the record will be rearranged to be performed by a sextet consisting of the band with an additional french horn (Elena Kakaliagou), piano (Rieko Okuda) and cello (Sicker Man). Premiere show is on October 1, 2021, at ausland, Berlin.

[Credits]

Josefine Lukschy – vocals & bass
Alexander Meurer – guitar
Immo Philipp Hofmann – drums

All songs written by Josefine Lukschy & Alexander Meurer; co-writing by Immo Philipp Hofmann
Lyrics by Josefine Lukschy

Recorded and mixed by Immo Philipp Hofmann at Basement Berlin studio in 2021
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon
Vinyl cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle in Berlin
Cover photo by Nikolaus Götz & Aljoscha Redenius

Funded by Musikfonds e. V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), as part of the Neustart Kultur recovery programme

© by bohemian drips & Dog Dimension, 2021 | all rights reserved | LC 96928
www.bohemiandrips.de | www.dogdimension.de

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 22:49

Side A (13:33)

A1: Sticky People (3:58)
A2: Endless Summer (5:39)
A3: Doggernaut (3:56)

Side B (9:16)

B1: Scrunchy Face (3:25)
B2: Drop Shadow by the Pool (5:51)

[Bio – Dog DImension]

Berlin-based power trio Dog Dimension started playing together in 2019. Since then they have been blasting away at a mix of experimental rock, grunge and alt-metal on their classic guitar-bass-drums setup. The band has released three EPs that each explore musical extremes in their own way and culminate in highly energetic live shows.

[Social – Dog Dimension]

Facebook: www.facebook.com/dogdimension
Bandcamp: dogdimension.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: @dogdimensionband
Soundcloud: @dogdimension
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCVFGrEHC…PdsrrbNzpg/videos

B2 – Drop Shadow by the Pool

B1 – Scrunchy Face

A3 – Doggernaut

[BD015] 12“ EP & digital
Dog Dimension – Endless Summer (EP)

Label: bohemian drips
Release date: July 30th 2021
Genre: Experimental Rock, Alt-Metal, Grunge
Distributor: Rubadub (physical Worldwide), A-Musik (physical Germany), Broken Silence (digital Worldwide)

Official video: youtu.be/EojXi0YvA74

Sticky, sweaty, melting: "Endless Summer" immediately transports you to the hottest day of the year. The third EP of Berlin-based band Dog Dimension navigates through a world of dystopian pool parties and throbbing stretches of asphalt, captured on five slick songs that maneuver between experimental rock, grunge and alt-metal on a classic guitar-bass-drums setup: While "Sticky People" is lush with tribal rhythms and hypnotic vocals, "Scrunchy Face" rattles through your ears like a speeding e-scooter on cobblestones. A cool-headed verse and a slow-mosh chorus exchange an affirmative nod on the title track "Endless Summer" – the doom-disco bridge lurks patiently behind the next cowbell. The power trio sprinkles "Doggernaut" with the occasional blast beat, while "Drop Shadow by the Pool" gently grazes avant-rock territory. A record that is, simply put, fun – or to quote the band’s singer: "My brain is hanging on a thread / It’s summer and I’m happy / I don’t want it to end"

"Endless Summer" will be released on July 30, 2021, on the Berlin-based label "bohemian drips" on vinyl and in digital form. Furthermore, the record will be rearranged to be performed by a sextet consisting of the band with an additional french horn (Elena Kakaliagou), piano (Rieko Okuda) and cello (Sicker Man). Premiere show is on October 1, 2021, at ausland, Berlin.

[Credits]

Josefine Lukschy – vocals & bass
Alexander Meurer – guitar
Immo Philipp Hofmann – drums

All songs written by Josefine Lukschy & Alexander Meurer; co-writing by Immo Philipp Hofmann
Lyrics by Josefine Lukschy

Recorded and mixed by Immo Philipp Hofmann at Basement Berlin studio in 2021
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon
Vinyl cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle in Berlin
Cover photo by Nikolaus Götz & Aljoscha Redenius

Funded by Musikfonds e. V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), as part of the Neustart Kultur recovery programme

© by bohemian drips & Dog Dimension, 2021 | all rights reserved | LC 96928
www.bohemiandrips.de | www.dogdimension.de

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 22:49

Side A (13:33)

A1: Sticky People (3:58)
A2: Endless Summer (5:39)
A3: Doggernaut (3:56)

Side B (9:16)

B1: Scrunchy Face (3:25)
B2: Drop Shadow by the Pool (5:51)

[Bio – Dog DImension]

Berlin-based power trio Dog Dimension started playing together in 2019. Since then they have been blasting away at a mix of experimental rock, grunge and alt-metal on their classic guitar-bass-drums setup. The band has released three EPs that each explore musical extremes in their own way and culminate in highly energetic live shows.

[Social – Dog Dimension]

Facebook: www.facebook.com/dogdimension
Bandcamp: dogdimension.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: @dogdimensionband
Soundcloud: @dogdimension
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCVFGrEHC…PdsrrbNzpg/videos

A1 – Sticky People

After LISLBAR finished the Compilation "Who's That Man - A Tribute To Conny Plank" in 2012, bohemian drips teamed up with Simon Clement aka ESCLÉ from Leipzig to do a Live Sessions Tour in five german cities. In munich driptastic Ur-Kraut-Monsters EMBRYO played a massive, worldmusic fusion show at one of munichs finest clubs - STROM. Finally we found some time to listen through all the recordings of the concert - WERMUTH. found nearly 2h of material for your pleasure. With breaks, applause and ambiency - all out of the material we found on a fieldrecorder. Strange impressions - out in space. 

We like to thank all of EMBRYO (in its past, present and future forms) - Christian Burchard, his daughter Maria, Dieter Serfas from AMON DÜÜL who is drumming in this record - and all the other players that shared sound in this very special night. 

http://www.bohemiandrips.de/
http://connyplank.com/live
http://groenland.com/artist/conny-plank/

Embryo live @ Strom Club Munich, 11.02.2013  - The Conny Plank Rework Sessions

Our friend Emil takes us to a cosmic jorney through the dodgy edges of outer space. 

https://soundcloud.com/emil-doesnt-drive

Emil Doesn't Drive - Cosmic

After LISLBAR finished the Compilation "Who's That Man - A Tribute To Conny Plank" in 2012, bohemian drips teamed up with Simon Clement aka ESCLÉ from Leipzig to do a Live Sessions Tour in five german cities.

Enjoy the Liveset of DIETER MOEBIUS, former member of Cluster and Harmonia and a pioneer of german kraut-electronica. It was recorded at the record release show at ZMF Berlin, 08.02.13. Thanks to all helpers and guests.

www.bohemiandrips.de/
connyplank.com/live
groenland.com/artist/conny-plank/
www.dietermoebius.de/‎

Dieter Moebius live @ ZMF Berlin, 08.02.2013 - The Conny Plank Rework Sessions

After LISLBAR finished the Compilation "Who's That Man - A Tribute To Conny Plank" in 2012, bohemian drips teamed up with Simon Clement aka ESCLÉ from Leipzig to do a Live Sessions Tour in five german cities.

Georg Zeitblom from Automat played a short, but intense liveset at ZMF Berlin, 08.02.13.

Zeitblom live @ ZMF Berlin, 08.02.13 - The Conny Plank Rework Sessions

After LISLBAR finished the Compilation "Who's That Man - A Tribute To Conny Plank" in 2012, bohemian drips teamed up with Simon Clement aka ESCLÉ from Leipzig to do a Live Sessions Tour in five german cities.

One main aspect of the tour was a rework artist for each stop, who composed livesets based on digitalized material of the Conny Plank archives. Enjoy the rework from our lovely friends of Guenther Lause, who played after Embryo at Strom Club in munich.

soundcloud.com/guentherlause‎
http://connyplank.com/live

Günther Lause live @ Strom Club München, 11.02.13 - The Conny Plank Rework Sessions

After LISLBAR finished the Compilation "Who's That Man - A Tribute To Conny Plank" in 2012, bohemian drips teamed up with Simon Clement aka ESCLÉ from Leipzig to do a Live Sessions Tour in five german cities.

This is a cut of the concert JAKI LIEBEZEIT (Can) and DOMINIK VON SENGER (Phantomband) played at Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf, 13.03.2013. We are very happy, that we were allowed to upload a part of the session for documentary purposes. We really enjoyed the concert - thanks to Jaki and Dominik, it was a pleasure.

Pictures of the night can be found here:
http://schiko.de/blog/dominik-von-senger-and-jaki-liebezeit

Dominik von Senger
http://www.discogs.com/artist/285473-Dominik-Von-Senger

Jaki Liebezeit
http://www.discogs.com/artist/48582-Jaki-Liebezeit

Jaki Liebezeit & Dominik von Senger live @ Salon des Amateurs Düsseldorf, 13.03.2013

A3 – Walking

A2 – Kern

A1 – Tauchen

lislbar & wermuth @ Fusion Festival 2022 (Bachstelzen/Velvet Soup, July 3rd 2022). An incoherent selection of bangers, rollers & hits. Dedicated to Fuzi, the stage-hand of our hearts. Vinyl only.

www.facebook.com/lislbarundwermuth/

lislbar & wermuth @ Fusion Festival 2022

lislbar & wermuth @ Fusion Festival 2023 (Dubstation, June 30th 2023). Vinyl only.

www.facebook.com/lislbarundwermuth/
www.instagram.com/bohemiandrips/

lislbar & wermuth @ Fusion Festival 2023

A recording of lislbar & wermuths 3 hour DJ-set at the Fusion Festival 2014. Three turntables, analog effects, a looper and an obscure vinyl collection were used for this mix. Thanks to everyone who enjoyed it.

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lislbar & wermuth @ Fusion Festival 2014

Listen to lislbar & wermuth's set from this years Fusion Festival, recorded live at the Dubstation stage. Enjoy a trippy ride through organic drones, sloppy beats & other cool stuff from outta space. Vinyl only.

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lislbar & wermuth @ Fusion Festival 2015

Artist: Mystical Communication Service
Title: The Fierce People

Tracklist

A - The Fierce People
B1 - Animals
B2 - Don't Eat Yourself
B3 - Gypsy Spirit

Mystical Communication Service is an ever evolving music project fronted by the fictional Yanez Di Mompracem, and backed occasionally by his collection of eccentric and very non-fictional bandmates from various corners of the world. It is an amalgamation of wayward drifters, uniting to bring the long lost art and bygone spirit of classic music back to the mainstream music scene. Soaring guitars and drums deeper than heartbeats, give their sound a touch of psychedelic rock infused with the wanderings and wondering of nomadic gypsies searching for a long forgotten home.

"The Fierce People" was released on the Berlin label "bohemian drips" in May 2016.

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B2 - Don't Eat Yourself

[BD004] Big Beats Big Times - Full Moon Theory

Vinyl: August 6th 2016

Artist: Big Beats Big Times
Title: Full Moon Theory

Tracklist

A1 - You Don't See Me (feat. Blair Sinta & Gunnar Halle)
A2 - Not Mine (feat. Jack Irons & Lara Di Lara)
A3 - Black Dub (feat. Graig Santiago)
A4 - So Quiet (feat. Kenny Wollesen)

B1 - Buddha At Nightfall (feat. Steve Nistor)
B2 - Maya (feat. Arto Tunáboyaciyan)
B3 - Writer's Block (feat. John J. Holden)
B4 - The Man With The Bell (feat. Erland Dahlen)

Originally released by Who Are We Who We Are.

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A2 - Not Mine (feat. Jack Irons & Lara Di Lara)

A1 - You Don't See Me (feat. Blair Sinta & Gunnar Halle)

cut/edit from lislbar & wermuth. representing bohemian drips // 12h Vinyl Only Selection

@ buttons 36h organs edition 
@ :// about blank berlin

lislbar & wermuth - Anti Hypnagogic

Die Milchstrasse Flockt

A5 – Euter Meines Vaters

A4 – Der Tod Hält Mich Wach

A3 – Affenrunde

A2 – Reigen

A1 – Auf Atlas' Rücken

Walls Will Fall: The 49 Trumpets of Jericho

[BD010] Microtub – Chronic Shift LP

Microtub is the world’s first and only microtonal tuba trio, exploring Just Intonation and the rich harmonic potential of the tuba. This album features material from Robin Hayward’s pieces „Sonic Drift“ and „Star System“, recorded in the stunning acoustics of the large water reservoir in Berlin-Pankow, reworked and mixed with analogue synthesizers by Peder Simonsen.

Recorded in „Kunstkopf“ stereophony, this unlikely combination of tubas and simple synth pitches provides a meditative and immersive experience, and an auditory glimpse into a truly unique acoustic space. While „Chronic Shift“ zones in on the neutral microtonal harmonies that underly „Sonic Drift“, the synths on „System Reboot“ mainly shadow the harmonics in the giant room, both as sustained pitches and as spaced out droplets lending movement to the track.

Robin Hayward – microtonal F tuba
Martin Taxt – microtonal C tuba
Peder Simonsen – microtonal C tuba

Credits:

Recorded during “Speicher” festival 2018; reworked & mixed by Peder Simonsen, 2019
Mastered & cut by Andreas Kauffelt at “Schnittstelle” in Berlin, 2019
Cover design by Alexander Meurer; photo on back by Tania Kelley
A collaboration between bohemian drips, microtub & Ace Tunes

© by bohemian drips & microtub, 2019 – all rights reserved

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B – System Reboot

A – Chronic Shift

Vinyl only – lislbar & wermuth @ Fusion Festival 2019 (Dubstation, June 28th 2019). Enjoy the ride.

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lislbar & wermuth @ Fusion Festival 2019

[BD012] 12“ vinyl & digital
Berke Can Özcan – Mountains Are Mountains (LP)

Release date: August 7th 2020
Genre: Ambient, Electroacoustic, Trance, Electronic
Label: bohemian drips [BD012]

"Mountains Are Mountains" is a solo album that presents the sound of many moments scattered all over a period of Berke Can Özcan's (Ex-Konstrukt, Big Beats Big Times) personal time on this planet. He is a drummer, composer, writer, producer who keeps experimenting with all that is available to his one ear. Gongs, aquadrums, a vibraphone, a steel drum, a prepared piano, a vintage harmonium which smells exactly like a vintage harmonium, log drums, kalimbas, as well as his self-made instruments made of old keys, soda caps, flower pots, bamboos, the most lousy-looking pedestal fan in the world, bicycle bells, straw brooms, old toys, garden hoses and Buddhist-prayer playing machines are all played by himself.
 
All sounds were constructed by – or at least decorated with – sadness, passion, agony, curiosity, excitement, loneliness, bliss, nostalgia, bitterness, joy, whatever you and I and he knew that could be experienced. "Mountains Are Mountains" is yours to taste. 

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 43:45

Side A

A1: The Shepherd (4:51)
A2: Roots (4:09)
A3: Membrane (3:41)
A4: Giant’s Sleep (4:39)
A5: Mouth of a Volcano (4:32)

Side B

B1: Bow (5:14)
B2: Low Tide and High Tide (5:15)
B3: Mangrove (3:19)
B4: Igloo (3:57)
B5: Sonar (4:08)

Booking: berkeozcan@gmail.com

[Social – Artist]

Website: http://berkecanozcan.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bcoartistpage/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/21h6mhBcr0Ce9N8k8UIPgV
Bandcamp: https://berkecanozcan.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: @berke_can_ozcan

[Bio – Artist]

Berke Can Özcan began as a drummer. He has founded and killed many bands. He wrote music, sang, played the drums and many other instruments within a variety of projects, recorded and produced albums, travelled and received acclaim, but you know, everything keeps changing. He owns a digital label, Who Are We Who We Are and is proud to release his fellow musicians’ and friends’ albums. As long as the music’s good. And who says what music is good by the way?

Since the last couple of years, he’s begun to transform into something else. There has been many things going on, families falling apart, friends walking away, people being crushed by life, his country losing many things he used to take for granted and the world being stirred up by the crazy and the malicious.

He still has many things in his pocket. Sounds from a variety of continents, some couple of oceans, many different islands, corners of the earth that not a lot of people know about. Work is in progress, work is always in progress and most probably will always be.

[Credits]

All sounds on the album were either performed or recorded and manipulated by Berke Can Özcan

Mixed by Mahmut Albulak, Blue Kite, Istanbul
Mastered by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin

Front cover photo: Elif Kayaman
Back cover photo: Jean Dupont
Cover design: Alexander Meurer

© by bohemian drips & Berke Can Özcan, 2020 – all rights reserved

www.bohemiandrips.de | www.berkecanozcan.com

[Social – Label]

Website: https://www.bohemiandrips.de
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bohemiandrips
Bandcamp: https://www.bohemiandrips.bandcamp.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGgabAQU7-PZVoM5VIi2Aiw
Vimeo: https://www.vimeo.com/bohemiandrips
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bohemiandrips
Soundcloud: https://www.soundcloud.com/bohemiandrips
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/label/760996-Bohemian-Drips

B5 – Sonar

B4 – Igloo

A3 – Membrane

A2 – Roots

[BD013] 12“ LP & digital
Tomoko Sauvage – Fischgeist (LP)
This is a preview of three songs. You can purchase the whole album (LP & digital) on Bandcamp.

Label: bohemian drips
Release date: October 16th 2020
Genre: Ambient, Sound Art, Experimental

Fischgeist was recorded in a former water tank in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg in August 2019. The nineteenth-century brick building consists of five layered circles, with a spiral staircase in the middle leading up to an exit to a hilltop. Inside, it's humid and cold, the temperature always around 8–10 ℃. The building’s acoustics produce a long reverberation that lasts up to 20 seconds.

‘One day between recording sessions, a man, a passerby, wanted to look inside the building. He told me that it used to be full of fish. For a second I imagined a huge round aquarium with loads of fish swimming around in circles. Then I realized that he meant dead fish were kept there, to be sold on markets during the GDR era. But the image of fish swimming in the space stayed with me.’

In conversation with the space of the water tank, Tomoko Sauvage searches beyond the limits of her self-invented ‘natural synthesizers’: porcelain and glass bowls, filled with water and amplified with hydrophones.

While she continues to develop some of the classic techniques heard on her previous album Musique Hydromantique (Shelter Press, 2017) – hydrophonic feedback (Kinetosis Study) and ‘fortune biscuits’ (porous pieces of terracotta that emit tiny singing bubbles) (Deluge) – here new elements are combined with delicate gestures to make curious noises: stroking bowls’ surfaces to imitate the voices of sea mammals (Metamorphosis), drawing dots and circles by rubbing stones against stones underwater (Exit) …

The underwater amplification of quasi-inaudible sound is even more magnified in the air by the echo of the water tank. Not only tiny bubbles, but also micro-movements of the bones and veins of the hand holding the sonorous objects in the water, are intensely amplified – sounding like a tempest on the opening Deluge.

Sauvage's longtime research into hydrophonic feedback develops with her new obsession with natural harmonics and sympathetic resonance. In Flying Vessels, the percussive notes of struck bowls resonate and turn into feedback loops before decaying, fueled by electric signal gain. Kinetosis Study is a sonic etude on fluid dynamics – the flow velocity, pressure and density of manually shaped water waves directly controlling the aquatic synthesizer's parameters.

August, when the mid-summer Ghost Festival is held, is traditionally known as the Ghost Month throughout East Asia. The spirits of the dead visit their living families, who welcome them with feasts, dancing and music. Miniature lantern-laden boats are released in rivers, to help lost ghosts find their way home.

Animated by formless matter – water, electricity, sound – Fischgeist celebrates a phantasmagoric journey, as the souls of aquatic lifeforms find their way out of the labyrinth of the water tank.

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 35:59

Side A (20:36)

A1: Deluge (6:48)
A2: Metamorphosis (6:59)
A3: Flying Vessels (6:49)

Side B (15:23)

B1: Kinetosis Study (12:22)
B2: Exit (3:01)

[Credits]

Composed, performed and mixed by Tomoko Sauvage
Recorded and produced by bohemian drips prior to Speicher festival, Berlin, August 2019 | Binaural recording with a KU 100 dummy head microphone
Mastered by Andreas Kauffelt in Berlin
Cover drawings by Baien Mōri (1798–1851)
Back cover photo by Richard Berger

© Tomoko Sauvage and bohemian drips – all rights reserved
www.bohemiandrips.de | www.o-o-o-o.org

A3 – Flying Vessels

A2 – Metamorphosis

A1 – Deluge

The Berlin based label “bohemian drips” was founded in 2011 by Alexander Meurer and Fillipp Vingerhoets and is specialized in developing, publishing and staging site-specific compositions in settings with distinctive acoustics. The inclusion of the spatial sound in as a compositional dimension forms the basis of this production process: To capture a three dimensional image, those productions are recorded in binaural audio ("Kunstkopf-Stereophonie"). Following this approach, the label organizes a yearly festival for site-specific music in two old water reservoirs in Berlin, Pankow. Since 2016, "bohemian drips" also releases studio LPs.

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