a fine collection of early synthesizer tracks composed in the years 1994-1999 but previously unreleased
credits
released 09 August 2013
Timothée Barrelet - synthesizer, programming

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Zebra

on the single "existing building" (released 28.1.2022)

available on iTunes, bandcamp, spotify etc.

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music & cover artwork by Magnetfisch

Timothée Barrelet - Synthesizer, programming
Rolf Althaus - Bass
Patrick Scherrer - Guitars 

recorded by Magnetfisch, mastered by Anna Murphy

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existing building

O'tranto House

"Lieder ohne Worte" - four songs without words, reduced to the max! this is the new Magnetfisch EP, the Swiss instrumental band's 11th record to date.

Flederlaus

The band's typically intense atmosphere stems from four Swiss musicians and friends that have been following but also shaping the worlds of electronic pop music together since our beginnings in 1994. "China", here in its instrumental version, is one of our audience's favourite tracks and is both highly energetic as well as melodic, with a catchy synthie-driven refrain.

China Mixdown REC1-15

Alizarine, as played live @ Radio RSR1, 16 september 2000 during the show "le kiosque à musique" link men: Valdo Sartori Jean-Marc Richard

from Synthesis 9499 (bandcamp version), released 09 August 2013
Timothée Barrelet - synthesizer, programming
Patrick Scherrer - guitar
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Alizarine (live @ RSR1 2000)

from the Magnetfisch EP "If you were a dinosaur, what kind of dinosaur would you be?" (10.7.2016, iMusiciandigital). Available on https://magnetfisch.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-were-a-dinosaur-what-kind-of-dinosaur-would-you-be and on iTunes etc. from 25.7.2016 on

music and video by Magnetfisch

Timothée Barrelet - synthesizers, programming
Patrick Scherrer - guitars (violin in the intro)
Rolf Althaus - bass

recorded, mixed and mastered by Benjamin Stoll www.bstoll.ch

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Petit-Peur

This track is from the album Silence Fiction and is available for purchase on http://magnetfisch.bandcamp.com/album/silence-fiction

Fluchtzeug

Glacenkampf

Rendez-Nous

"Rarotonga" was recorded on 3./4. Nov. 2012. The four track EP is the band's eighth record to date.


Patrick Scherrer - guitar, ukulele
Timothée Barrelet - programming, synthesizers
Rolf Althaus - bass

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recorded, engineered and mastered at www.bstoll.ch studio by Benjamin Stoll, Bern, Switzerland  
available on BandCamp now (http://magnetfisch.bandcamp.com/). Itunes etc.: End of November 2012  


Propangasmaschinerie

Wayne Fetherbay, Music Places 
"If you were a composer living high in the alps in Switzerland, its not surprising that your music would be ethereal. The music of this elevated group of musicians from Berne certainly could be called heavenly." 
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Didier Becu, The original Sin 
"Magnetfisch are making electronic music, but not your usual electronic music as the central point of this Swiss band is creating moods and they do it with the most effective thing there is, using guitar lines from cold wave....so yes, if you are wondering how "Seventeen Seconds" by The Cure would have sounded if Robert and Co. had decided to make it an electronic piece of art it would have sounded a bit like magnetfisch!!! Honestly said I really was moved by it especially as in some ways it comes very close to what Vini Reilly did with The Durutti Column. Maybe it's a bit typical for Swiss alternative artists that they keep on hanging on that cold wave sound from the eighties but for me this is just a bonus.... Magnetfisch have made a brilliant electroadventure..." 
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"Magnetfisch already exist since 1998, and from a duo, which originally played instrumental music with roots in the 80ies New Wave, they became an outright band after two beautiful albums. Still, they let their roots shine through and do not deny them at all. [...] songs with catchy tunes that will find lots of fans amongst aficionados of good old New Wave. Although the music is electronic in its structure, I personally rather see the incisive guitar sounds, which remind me of giants like The Durutti Column, And Also The Trees and The Cure. [...]. Unfortunately, such melodic, unobtrusive New Wave is much too rare nowadays." 
Alexander Pohle (<A href="http://www.backagain.de" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.backagain.de</A>)

Magnetfisch

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