Lizzie Urquhart (1/10/23)

Baldruin - Kleine Freuden
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/kleine-freuden

Johannes Schebler's musical output is all about establishing a dreamlike territory where sonic settlements can spread at ease. While Grykë Pyje (Johannes Schebler's duo with Jani Hirvonen) presents musical landscapes as open and clear spaces, Baldruin's miniature pieces tend to narrow them down, zooming into domestic sceneries that shift like malleable rooms inside a magic building. These are the quarters where the inhabitants of Schebler's musical world are configured. 

Rendered in a tender manner, the tunes in Kleine Freuden (in English: small joys) unfold like a collection of fairy tales and bedtime stories. Fables and lullabies performed in whispering tones seem to carry us through a child's dream where images blend into each other. Compact, yet gauzy and free flowing melodies gather up revealing an ensemble of households where fanciful entities play care freely, leading us along their musical maze. The music is placid, childlike and playful. It wanders around in unwavering estrangement, organizing an unprecedented and intimate space as seen from a bird's eye view. 

In the landscape of a bedroom where the night lamp is the sun, we take part in a lively journey, as wonder is warrant and keeper of a warm and pristine environment. Perspective shifts as we rise from bed sheet folds that turn into fragile mountain ranges. We crawl behind furniture and take shelter in secret hideouts while dust falls upon us like a blizzard. Transfiguring notions of scale and time, we are left wondering how long have we been here, wondering if music is the only true measurement of time. 

released November 3, 2022 

Recorded in Wiesbaden, Germany in 2019 and 2020 by Johannes Schebler 
baldruin.bandcamp.com 

Artwork and layout by Johannes Schebler 
www.instagram.com/johannes_schebler/ 

Mastered by Pentti Dassum 

Words by José Badía Berner 
instagram.com/josebadiaberner 

Photography by Zoltan Czakó 


Released by mappa as MAP031 in 2022

Kleine Freuden

Taumel

Look to the East, Look to the West

Sugar Almond

First mix of the new year comes from one of the minds behind the excellent Somewhere Press label, Caapi. 

"Music for moving away... the tangled fear, romance and nostalgia of solitary drifting through a new city.." imagined through sounds from between 1993-2004.

https://soundcloud.com/somewherepress
https://soundcloud.com/caapii

Motion Cast Vol. 92: Caapi

Our mix for the NTS Early Bird show, 3 May 2024.
Covering for Jack Rollo <3

featuring unreleased/forthcoming music by @floriantmzeisig @sunfear1 @alliyahenyo @man_rei @leaf-miner

The Early Bird Show w/ Somewhere Press ~ NTS Radio 030524

Stefan's monthly mix for Radio AlHara, for June 2024, "All forever" mix. Below is the track listing, track name and then artist(s) name(s).

Stefan took the photo in August 2021 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

01. Janek Krukowski @krukowski - Latent - I (via @oklarec)
02. Stefan Christoff - In Burgas
03. Jessica Zambri - Foresting (via @crashsymbols)
04. Bauer + Katharina Schmidt - Cenote (via @moonvillain)
05. Matteo Uggeri @greysparkle - ...for Myself in Difficult Times
06. Man Rei @man_rei - Gate
07. Paradise of Yesterday - Sophistication
08. Paradise of Yesterday - Remembrance
09. Wojtek Kiwer @wojtek-kiwer - PARTICLES
10. Grimório de Abril - Ophidic Haze (via Municipal K7 in Brazil)
11. Grimório de Abril - A Distância Entre Duas Constelações
12. Hydenburg - Kind Disregards (@christiancarriere and Pascal Delaquis)
13. Totenbaum Träger - Fleur de néon VII

Spirodon 06/2024 mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

from 'Thread', out 25th October
Somewhere Press
SP04

Bandcamp

Man Rei - Where the Opaqueness Begins

310724 leaf shadow

Kid Fears - Time In The Dark

2019 marks a decade from the release of my forever-favourite song.

Scarlet Fields (the Horrors)

Lyrics

Get you riled up with
Words that don’t mean much
You say, you say
You think they’re lovely

Well you don’t really know
You can’t really see
Replace your eyes with hands
So that you may grasp all you can
So that you may grasp all, grasp all that you can

Are you the man that you wanted to be?
Are you the man that you wanted to see?
Are you the man that you wanted to be?
Are you the man that you wanted to see?

Look in the mirror darling
Tell me what you see
Are you where you'd always thought you'd be?
Look in the mirror darling and
Tell me what you see

Are you the man that you wanted to be?
Are you the man that you wanted to see?
Are you the man that you wanted to be?
Are you the man that you...

That you wanna be?
That you wanna see?



Credits

The Man
Vocals: Gabbi Green
Bass/ Synth/ Programming: Robert Cifuentes
Guitar/ Drums: Cameron Allen 

Written by Gabbi Green
Engineered by Robert Cifuentes
At Lolipop Studios (Echo Park) in 2014

The Man (2014; Our 1st Demo Ever!)

mail me: write.man.rei@gmail.com
book me: tim@somewhere.press

all the web: http://man-rei.com

An Awkward Guest every 1st Sunday of every 2nd month on Noods Radio: https://noodsradio.com/residents/an-awkward-guest