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Les Indés Automne 2015 (2)

Chemical Sadness by Jessica & The Tahini Airways

With an 80's darkwave dance club feel, a super catchy hook, a driving tech house beat with heavily syncopated vocals and a touch of Mulholland Drive, Frau Knotz presents her sophomore single ‘Runway of Reality'. This danceable darkwave track explores the corners of fashion and identity, chronicling the multitude of fads and phases we pass through in our lives.

“We as humans are ever-evolving,” says Lauren, “revealing and disguising facets of ourselves through the clothes we wear. I love to play dress-ups. I change the way I look often, and enjoy doing the same with my sound. This tune is theatrical and dramatic with a whole bunch of influences like Kavinsky, Vangelis (Blade Runner soundtrack) and Royksöpp.”

Runway of Reality

Carwyn Ellis - Tribute to Cynara Faria & Quarteto Em Cy(17/04/2023)

Taken from an improvisation on June 18th, 2023.
Released June 18th, 2023

Within Is An Ocean / Avoid The Spines / Become The Sand, Become The Sky

Canción participante del concurso Piezas Sonoras del Archivo General de la Nación 2023.

La canción busca retratar la Argentina despidiéndose de uno de sus más grandes ídolos: Carlos Gardel. Está inspirada en el material de archivo "Crónica de un Día Triste", donde se puede apreciar una Buenos Aires enamorada del tango y una cultura arraigada en el barrio del Abasto. Enfoqué la pieza como un fragmento sonoro de un sueño que pudo haber tenido un argentino o argentina en la década del '30. Opté por un enfoque onírico para centrarme en imágenes y sentimientos, más que en un mensaje concreto como en una canción tradicional.

Los pianos y bajos fueron grabados de manera tradicional, mientras que bandoneones, percusión y orquestación fueron programados para producir la canción en estudio en el futuro. Agradezco todo el increíble material que brindaron.

Pianos y Bandoneones: Sebastian Rey 
Bajo, Orquestación, Edición y Mezcla: Julian Barabino
Compositor: Julian Barabino

Sueño De Una Crónica De Un Dia Triste

You Can Walk Through Walls But Can You Manifest Steps

On her spellbinding debut EP, the Aotearoa singer-songwriter-producer shifts from danceable electropop to a seamless cinematic, otherworldly odyssey steeped in experimental retro-futurism. 

Consisting of seven different vignettes produced at home over two years, these post-pandemic snapshots were carefully re-ordered and fine-tuned at Rhythm Ace Studio within one week, resulting in a cohesive narrative through the continuous flow of music. The resulting Nextraterrestrial EP also contains a multimedia project, including seven animated videos sewn together to form a short film made by 3D graphic designer Halfofnothing that attempts to expand on the EP’s themes of futurism and the unknowability of life, the universe and the depths of the ocean.

Frau Knotz has taken a painterly composition approach with this offering, using genres as colours and textures on her tracks. Brush strokes of R&B, ambient, trip-hop, techno, experimental beats and spoken word have been daubed with discernment across this truly unique canvas. Textures dazzle with passion by Downbeat Mastering, bringing forth glitchy chip-tune and 808 kits, fat rumbling bass notes that punch as hard as they bounce, shimmering arpeggiation and an upright piano fed through muffled effects units intended as though heard underwater. Ramping up to a rollicking acid techno finale featuring a soaring Roland 303, Frau Knotz disappears in a flash, leaving the listener breathless at the finish line.

Carving a reputation for her shrewd idiosyncrasies, Frau Knotz is not afraid to expose all sides of her 3-dimensional self. Through the juxtaposition of home-produced MIDI instruments and vocal takes with vintage analog synthesizers, she allows us to peek at humble beginnings through a polished lens of studio finesse. Her vocals are just as elusive, delivered occasionally through the organic warmth of a 1950’s ribbon microphone, at other times presented with a deliberately detached vocaloid-like autotune, as well as downright de-tuned anonymity. This shapeshifting artist thrives in presenting the many voices that dwell within her; half-human, half-electronically enhanced.

Revealing the coming-of-age of Frau Knotz, her first significant body of work wields songs conceived just as often from the far reaches of her imagination as the lived depths of her heart, spun into an avant-garde, cinematic world where we can reach out and grab hold of Other Futures. Nextraterrestrial walks the tightrope between terror and euphoria, between the fictional and the unashamedly bold, the enigmatic and anthemic, the uplifting and the devastating.

Skimpy Jumperville

wizard funk (world's trunin')

wizard funk (world's turnin')

Revealing the coming-of-age of Frau Knotz, her first significant body of work wields songs conceived just as often from the far reaches of her imagination as the lived depths of her heart, spun into an avant-garde, cinematic world where we can reach out and grab hold of Other Futures. Nextraterrestrial walks the tightrope between terror and euphoria, between the fictional and the unashamedly bold, the enigmatic and anthemic, the uplifting and the devastating.

Nextraterrestrial [Continuous Audio Experience]

Live In Fear

Dambi

I’d kill for you baby 
I’m not ashamed of you 
I’m not ashamed of you 
No, I’m not ashamed of you 

What you want from me baby 
I will give to you 
Your balance I won’t lose 
I will give to you 

Close your eyes 
While I’m biting your throat 
You’re bracing for your exit 
Out my open door 

Read the lines 
There’s nothing between 
My cards are on your table 
And it feels obscene 

You’re a lion behind glass 
You never show your teeth 
But when it comes to me 
Give me all your grief 

You’re a zebra on jet black 
There’s only half of you 
I’ve done the math, it’s true 
There’s only half of you 

Close your eyes 
While I’m biting your throat 
You’re bracing for your exit 
Out my open door 

Read the lines 
There’s nothing between 
My cards are on your table 
And it feels obscene

Lion Zebra

I Got a Nosebleed on Space Mountain

I Thought I was Waiting for you 
But I was 
Waiting On No One

Ash Lake 

Fields

we are playing odd soul. 

booking/requests: paperthieves.band@gmail.com

|'Paper Thieves' is a five-headed psychedelic soul project with roots in New Zealand, Turkey and Germany. Leadsinger Leah creates imagry through spirited storytelling and with the groups commitment to a blend of intricate souly vocals, psychedelic guitar emissions and stimulating rhythms they create a dynamic and playful atmosphere.

My quest is to pick up the best sounds from different  styles : Rock, Alternative, Pop, Electronica... and from independant + DIY productions. I Hope You enjoy those collections.

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