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For Böser Herbst, Thomas Fehlmann returns to the sediment of ages, drawing from a similar lexicon of sounds to that used on 2018’s ‘1929 – Das Jahr Babylon’. Like that album, Böser Herbst was produced as the soundtrack to a documentary made by Matthias Luthardt, ‘Herbst 1929, Schatten Über Babylon’, which offers historical insight to the third season of the television series Babylon Berlin. It adds yet another string to the bow of this most forward-thinking and creative artist, whose history takes in NDW (Palais Schaumburg), techno (3MB) and psychedelic ambience (The Orb), plus a clutch of gorgeous solo albums that explore wide terrain, from the dancefloor through supine home listening to compelling soundtrack work. Fehlmann’s approach here was to ‘capture’ samples of contemporaneous music, “picking up the dirt and dust of original 1920s archive sound and music excerpts and shaping the essence into this selection of tunes,” he recalls. After delivering the material to the editing room, Fehlmann “threw all the pieces up in the air, deliberately lost the overview in consequence, researched the atmospheric thread and assembled it for this album.” That explains the singular nature of the material here, and its ability to sit together so neatly and discretely, as its own entity. For Böser Herbst is a music box of possibilities, shadowed by its historical provenance, but never crudely beholden to it, rather “keeping the references only as a distant nod, a scent.”

It’s certainly an evocative listen, a cornucopia of textural pleasure and sensual, tactile assemblage. The spiralling, psychedelic cycle of “Karnickel” winds its way between the ears like thread to the needle; “Mit Ausblick” immerses the listener in deep, gaseous tones, only to be lifted into the air by the glassy drones of “Umarmt”. “Wunschwechsler” crackles with the unpredictability of weather systems while a guitar-like loop unspools across the horizon. Throughout, you can catch tiny tastes of the source material, but they’re pressed into greater service, Fehlmann using these sources for their evocative capacity and then saturating them with grain and rumble, abstracting outwards. It’s a music of temporal disjuncture and clairvoyant resonance, “speaking with the past – alert, distant and quixotic.”

Thomas Fehlmann - Vergessen

B12 - Soundtrack of Space - Electro Soma (Warp) 1993
Cmetric - Tribeca (B12 10) 1994
2001 - Rings of Saturn - Space Age EP (B12 02) 1991
Musicology - Telefon 529 (B12 01) clear vinyl 1991
Redcell - Paradroid - Redcell (B12 05) 1992
Musicology - Bubbles - Outlook (B12 04) green vinyl 1992
Redcell - Phett - Time Tourist (Warp) 1996
Musicology - Boundaries - Hall of Mirrors (B12 06) 1992
Redcell - Soundtrack Of A Strange Era - Retreat from Unpleasant Realities (B12 07) 1992
Redcell - Interim (B12 08) 1993
Musicology - Obsessed - Musicology (B12 01) 1991
Stasis - The Point of No Return - The Point of No Return (B12 11) 1993
Redcell - The City [Inhabited by Cmetric] - (A.R.T. / B12 14.1) 1995
Redcell - Practopia (A.R.T. / B12 14.2) 1995
Redcell - In Version - Virtualsex (Buzz) 1993
Phenomyna - Travellor (Explained By Red Cell) (A.R.T. 5.1) 1994
Redcell - The Silicon Garden - Likethemes (Likemind 3) 1995

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B12 Feature Show: Soundtrack of Space

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Microgravity

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Mr. Brubaker's Strawberry Alarm Clock

Under Violent Objects

Original version taken from the WARP limited 2CD compilation 'Artificial Intelligence II'.

Mark Franklin - Release To The System (Radio Edit)

Credits :
Cover design by nibo
mastered by - bo kondren
all tracks written and produced by david letellier
Tracks 5 & 7 contain keyboard samples
by Vincent Feuillet.

© 2006 Raster-Noton.
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