Home is a track of the album Schweben by SCHWEBEN. 

Music by Philipp Hager

Released on tape on may 25th 2017 via VERYDEEPRECORDS.

Artwork by Philipp Dittmar. Photography by Rebecca Schwarzmeier.

This is VDR018 - 2017

Buy the tape here: verydeeprec.bandcamp.com/album/schweben

Schweben

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Dream is a track of the album Schweben by SCHWEBEN. 

Music by Philipp Hager

Released on tape on may 25th 2017 via VERYDEEPRECORDS.

Artwork by Philipp Dittmar. Photography by Rebecca Schwarzmeier.

This is VDR018 - 2017

Buy the tape here: verydeeprec.bandcamp.com/album/schweben

Dream

Throughout the works of Philipp Hager, the person behind SCHWEBEN, there’s this feeling of music practiced as some sort of geographical study. With his band ZEMENT, he’s exploring the possibibilites within the seismic textures of the classic Hallogallo-Maschinen-Beat, trying to work himself through layers of similar structures and minimal changes between his guitar and synths and Christian Büdel’s ritual drumming, ever moving further into the rhythmic realms of proto techno with the means of rock. Here, the name „ZEMENT“ evokes something as heavy, hard and constructed as it is pulverized and highly formable into any desired shape. 

SCHWEBEN, in a name-telling contrast, functions like aerial photographies of said structures. Here, Hager observes musical themes from a distance; not unlike a drone flight over a plateau, the tracks on „Sketches Of Plains“ are uncongested, light, dizzyingly flurry. Examining ideas solely with a synth (and casual help from a sampler), he takes Zement’s repetitional approach in a different direction, fumbling around on a fundament of carefully built sequencer melodies, erasing all traces of rock, leaving the listener with sceletal rhythms and minimalistic melodies mimicking natural phenomena. 

From the titles to the song structures, this album invokes hot, breezy air (and, on a more personal note, we first heard the rough mixes of „Sketches Of Plains“ during the summer of 2018 and within two listening sessions, that one turned into our favourite summer album). In their sketchiness, the tracks are as sparse as the plains they’re named after, yet they are ripe with faux virtual nature sounds, nods to 1980’s japanese minimalism filtered through acid house, echoes of second-wave synth experimentalists like portuguese Telectu, or artists like DSR Lines, and, as the title of the album suggests, a hats-off to Miles Davis‘ „Sketches Of Spain“: „The softer you play it, the stronger it gets.“  

Ambassador Kaputt (Otomatik Muziek)

8. Hardangervidda

7. Causse

6. Puna

5. Anahuac Valley

4. Huib - Plateau

3. Jura

2. Piedmont

1. Greina

"Trees" is the next chapter in Philipp Hagers alias Schwebens exploration of different surroundings and nature. With every new recording the project moves on in a different (sound) direction, inspired by the places and things which were tried to explore through sound. This time the subjects are trees and their relationship to time and life. On this release you can hear long microtonal drone pieces, field recordings and some synth Schabernack, always connected to the trees which were recorded. The most important thing you can learn from them is: Don´t take yourself too seriously. Things come and go. Enjoy the walk through.

Trees

01 Arbol Del Tule

02 Tree Of Life

03 Lone Cypress

04 Major Oak

05 Baobab

Schweben is a solo project exploring the possibilities of floating improvised music. 

I also play in the band ZEMENT and with my friend Seppo as Hager/Kaputt, with Seppo and Torben as PRIVACY HOOLS and with my friend Philipp as Hager/Roth. 

https://zement.bandcamp.com/
https://otomatikmuziek.bandcamp.com/album/zentralcaf-3-35

Upcoming shows:

TBA
 
Past shows: 

2023:

33. // 04.11.23 - Galerie Vorwerkstift, Hamburg
32. // 03.11.23 - Kommune, Kiedrich (Hager/Kaputt Show)
31. // 02.10.23 - K4 / Human Rights Film Festival, Nürnberg (Hager/Kaputt Show)
30. // 31.03.23 - Space Between, Nürnberg (Hager/Kaputt Show) 

2020:

29. // 29.05.20 - Kult, Würzburg

2019:

28. // 26.10.19 - Fragmente, Wiesbaden (Hager/Kaputt-Show) 
27. // 26.09.19 - Hemdendienst, Nürnberg (Hager/Kaputt-Show) 
26. // 24.08.19 - Kantine, Nürnberg 
25. // 29.06.19 - Z-Bau, Nürnberg
24. // 16.03.19 - Atti, Nürnberg / Gostenhof (Hager/Kaputt Show) 
23. // 15.03.19 - Odradek, Chemnitz (Hager/Kaputt Show)
22. // 24.01.19 - Atelier Goho, Nürnberg (Roth/Hager-Show) 

2018

21. // 13.12.18 - KULT, Würzburg
20. // 28.06.18 - Zentralcafe, K4 - Nürnberg (as a part of PRIVACY HOOLS) 
19. // 10.05.18 - ZEWI, Erlangen 
18. // 04.05.18 - IIH _ Festival, Nürnberg -- (as a part of PRIVACY HOOLS)
17. // 27.04.18 - Nordkurve, Nürnberg 
16. //  24.03.2018 - Krähengarten, Nürnberg 
15. // 20.02.2018 - Kellerperle, Würzburg (as part of Unexpected Nudes) 
14. //  13.02.2018 - K4, Nürnberg 
13. //  26.01.2018 - Raumzehndrei, Nürnberg

2017

12. // 26.11.2017 - Cairo, Würzburg (10. Psychedelic Network Festival)
11. // 15.10.2017 - Nürnberg // Goldvinyl 
10. // 14.10.2017 - Leipzig // Tiff 
9. // 13.10.2017 - Dresden // Hole Of Fame
8. // 12.10.2017 - Chemnitz // Odradek
7. // 10.10.2017 - Würzburg // CAIRO
6. // 09.10.2017 - Offenbach // HfG Kapelle
5. // 08.10.2017 - Bielefeld // Potemkin Bar
4. // 07.10.2017 - Köln // micro galerie
3. // 06.10.2017 - Wiesbaden // Fragmente
2. // 29.09.2017 - K4, Nürnberg 
1. // 25.05.2017 - Desi, Nürnberg

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