Released by:
morr
Release/catalogue number:
morr124lp
Release date:
5/9/2013

Please buy the album.

Múm - The Colorful Stabwound

from 'HYMNEN UND HELDEN' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den387
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/sanktotten  


Alongside with the release of the new album “Tote Winkel”, Sankt Otten will be delighting us with another limited vinyl bonus release. “Hymnen und Helden” (hymns and heroes) is a collection of cover versions created over the last few years. As the album title suggests, it pays homage to self-proclaimed musical hymns and heroes from the seventies and eighties.


HYMNEN UND HELDEN – track by track:

A well-known Moog sequence leads us on the way into the cover album. Giorgio Moroders 1977 disco classic “I feel love” has been tackled here. Sankt Ottens instrumental interpretation starts out familiar, but ends in a slightly disturbing disharmony of mellotron and ebow guitar.

The instrumental version of the melancholy Wipers anthem from 1983 starts with a rather unusually fast 808 beat for Sankt Otten. The 80s electronic echoes suit the punk rock earworm “Doom Towen” surprisingly well.

Without Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, more unusual electronic music would hardly have been conceivable in Germany in the early 1980s. “Alles ist gut” tribute to this band and singer Gabi Delgado-Lopez, who passed away in 2020 and with whom they shared the festival stage in 2015. Gabi‘s lyrics are rendered by text- to-speech software with the voice of an unknown Claudia.

“Wishing (If I had a photograph of you)” was made famous in 1982 by A Flock of Seagulls. This record was regularly played on Stephan Ottens turntable back then. Reason enough to remember this with “Sehnen (Hät- te Ich von dir eine Fotografie)”. The recordings for this album were made in 2007 and have been updated and completed in the last year. Carsten Sandkämper, who was also featured on Sankt Ottens debut album “Eine kleine Traurigkeit”, contributed the vocals and lyrics.

The Swiss band Grauzone became famous with the NDW hit “Eisbär”. Instead of this title, they took on the B-side of this single with “Ich liebe sie”. A synthpop love song full of innocence, stylishly sung by Carsten San- kämper and refined with Kraftwerk-like choral sounds and an herbaceous motorik beat.

The band has enjoyed a personal friendship with Harald Grosskopf since their collaboration in 2013 on the album “Messias Maschine”. With “So weit, so gut”, they take on his little hit from the album “Synthesist”, which is one of the gems of the synthesizer albums of the eighties.

“Kriegsmaschinen, fahrt zur Hölle” is an anti-war song from 1974 by Günter Schickert, the Berlin master of the echo guitar. Unfortunately, the lyrics are still relevant. Oliver Klemm contributes the delay guitars and Stephan Otten puts the lyrics through a vocoder. Sankt Otten compress the 17-minute original to just under 5 minutes and move it musically from the 70s to the 80s.

Sankt Otten’s adaptation of David Bowies “Heroes” is equipped with warm Juno 106 sounds, ebow guitar and synthesizer pads. The German “Helden” version, known from the movie Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, is sung in a touching way by Carsten Sandkämper.


New York-based Rafael Anton Irisarri was responsible for mastering of the record. As part of the series with graphic covers, this die-cut artwork was also created by Mexican designer Daniel Castrejon. The one time only vinyl pressing, limited to 350 copies, comes in a beautifully designed die-cut cover and colored vinyl. The Osnabrück duo Sankt Otten, founded in 1999, have been releasing on Denovali since 2009. The band has dedicated itself to the holy trinity of Krautrock, Ambient and contemporary Electronics.

Sankt Otten - Doom Town

Valediction

Just (After Song of Songs)

Compositions for Piano

Watching Traffic

Nature

Haikara

Apache (Remastered)

Taken from Vanessa Wagner's EP Inland Versions on InFiné, out September 27.

More: https://www.orbmag.com/music/premiere

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Inland Versions

Orb Premieres

Premiere: Vanessa Wagner - Elf Dance (Suzanne Ciani Version) [Moondog]

After working on so many VR and extended reality projects the past few years, I really wanted to try it out and make something myself. So I picked up a virtual reality camera (big thanks to my friends at Google) and a Zoom VR ambisonic mic and hit up one of my favorite spots in the world, the San Juan Islands. 

Hiking out to some of these remote beaches and knolls you see in the film wasn't always easy...but a few scrapes and a couple of near misses later, here it is:

https://youtu.be/5epIEKfK1Bk

"Knee Play 2" from Einstein on The Beach
Music by Philip Glass
Performed and directed by Tim Fain
Film edited by Jordan English
Titles by John Fitzgerald
Audio mix by Robert Parr

And special thanks to:

The Whiteley Center
Robin Shore, SilVR

Philip Glass On The Beach

Einstein on the Beach - Knee Play 2

Paddle to the Sea

Aguas da Amazonia: No. 1, Madeira River

"My Heart's in the Highlands" (2000) by Arvo Pärt (*1935)
edited and arranged by Other People's Energy

Poem ‘My Heart's in the Highlands’ by Robert Burns (1759–1796)

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer –
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North –
The birth place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Farewell to the mountains high cover’d with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods;
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer –
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.

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Electronics / Mixing and Producing - Skyler Hill
Vocals / Electronics / Editing and Producing - Christopher Walker
Reading - Charles, Prince of Wales

Recorded at our homes, together and apart • Denton / Boston
Vocals engineered and recorded by Justin Lemons, Infinite Ohm Recording • Denton
Mastered by Joseph Branciforte, Greyfade Studio • Bushwick
Album Artwork by Isabel Crespo Pardo • Boston

Apache (Remastered)

Danger Beach

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