it’s summer
December 27, 2007
For some of my friends and readers out there it is Summer, not Winter. This for you folk…
Robert Lippok & Barbara Morgenstern - Sommer
[More about this album from Boomkat…
Barbara Morgenstern and To Rococo Rot’s acclaimed Robert Lippok are two of Berlin’s most innovative electronic musicians, here joining forces to produce this unique and vibrant album. The project began as 4 tracks for a 12″ in 2002 and the musical friendship developed from there until in late 2004 they had enough material for an album. The direction of this record is brave and futuristic. There is multitude of instrumentation, rhythms and sounds. With warm interlayered pianos, wah wah guitars as well as classical, whirring electronics and minimalist percussion. The music is for the most part instrumental with the exception of two guest vocals. London based Japanese singer Mieko Shimizo aka Apache 61 features on “Kaitusburi” and Damon Aaron (Telefon Tel Aviv) adds his sweat soul voice to “if the day remains unspoken for”. Morgenstern herself, meanwhile, forgoes lyrics but hums beautifully on the album’s standout track “summer”. This is a collaboration in the best sense, both highly individual artists meeting on a middle ground between their individual styles - so close is the working spirit of Morgenstern and Lippok that it’s almost impossible to tell who has contributed which sounds… ]
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oh yeah, another one of those songs that just isn’t long enough…Todd Terje if you’re reading this…an edit if you please
Nice post, thanks for the info, regards laura
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