Browse by Artist: FLEISCHMANN, B.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	Frisky He Said
Label:	A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.50
Catalog #:	ANOST 008EP

Released in 2006. A supplement to the album The Humbucking Coil, released by the Vienna-based songwriter, B. Fleischmann. This two-tracker is made of space -- space to breathe and space to grow. "Frisky He Said" is a meditative piano piece, gradually surrounded by Fleischmann's typical clicking rhythm structures. The second track is an alternative version from what was on the full-length and starts with a minimal organ tune, followed up by a laid back guitar. This reduced melody is completed by tricky, adjusted beats. Digital and analog, closely-woven and wide open.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	Pop Loops for Breakfast
Label:	CHARHIZMA (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	CHAR 001CD

First release on Charhizma, from 1999 (the LP version was the first release on Morr Music at the same time), available
       again. Born in 1975, B. Fleischmann lives in Vienna. Since early 1998, he has concerned himself concretely with
       electronic music. Here harmonies and noises from various electronic music devices are in the foreground, with some songs
       accompanied by a drum set. The songs are perfect for sitting in a red salon with deep sofas, for these are harmonies to
       which one easily moves. Each tone is in total coordination with another. The aim of the songs is to close the eyes and
       open the ears, as you are carried by warm basses and other soft sounds. Assembled in a small studio in the 16th Viennese
       district, and presented at picknick@rhiz in 1999, in cooperation with Christof Kurzmann.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	Welcome Tourist
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MORR 041CD

Welcome Tourist is not just a political statement. It also is a document of growth and refinement. Despite a more
       instrumental approach (in the classical sense), you will still find Bernhard Fleischmann hunched over his tiny
       groovebox, creating the most sumptuous harmonies. On this record, however, he lets his musical talents unfold (you'll
       hear him on piano, drums and vibraphone) and engages the support of others, which turns the once solo artist into a band
       frontman. In harmony with this functional shift, the music also undergoes a change, which shines through on "Le Desir"
       and "Sleep," which have been previously released, but now feature new vocals by Charhizma label owner, Christof
       Kurzmann. Compared to Bernhard Fleischmann's earlier work, Welcome Tourist might not appear as accessible.
       Bursts of noise and distortion have now become as important as the trademark melodies circling through his songs.
       Bernhard does not want this to be seen as a (political) expression of uneasiness. Rather, it just refers to his ongoing
       love affair with noisy guitar bands. Working with different musicians had a direct influence on the outcome of each song.
       Usually, a groovebox composition by Bernhard marks the start of the mutual working process. The initial composition
       retreats more and more during the development of the final piece until there's nothing left but a shadow, a blurry trace,
       that nonetheless leaves its mark on the result.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	The Humbucking Coil
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MORR 063CD

Bernhard Fleischmann named his latest album after the roughly 50-year-old Humbucking Coil. As old as modern pop
       music: the pickup, not the artist. And here, Bernhard Fleischmann has picked up an electronically-amplified guitar for
       the first time. The Humbucking Coil is an open, breathing album: rather soundbox than hard disk. Before this,
       there was the project Duo505, developed together with Herbert Weixelbauer and the Groovebox (Roland 505).
       Here, there is the amplified guitar and the micro-levels of clicks and cuts and the warmth of an old valve-driven
       microphone. Vibraphone, piano, guitar, they all come together in a still-electronic context.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	Melancholie/Sendestraße
Label:	SOUND OF A HANDSHAKE (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.50
Catalog #:	SHAKE 003CD

Music from the depths of the room. Music from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's
       transparent sculpture made of steel, concrete and glass. And in it there are the city lights, reflecting. On the occasion
       of the exhibition Melancholie -- Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst and a series of concerts that went were curated
       by de:bug magazine, the Vienna-based sound-bricoleur Bernhard Fleischmann has not only given a concert in
       the Neue Nationalgalerie, he has also composed a song only for that special night: 49 minutes and 15 seconds. Featuring
       the most melancholy of all instruments, the bandoneon, a cello and oscillating synthesizers. Melodies materialize softly
       and turn into bittersweet opulence, surrounded by short but central lines of loneliness recited from Rainer Maria
       Rilke's Herbsttag and Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. On CD2, there is a picnic in
       the country, at the foot of a broadcasting mast outside of Vienna. Then, in summer 2003, it was the Kunstradio, the art
       channel of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. Fleischmann took piano miniatures of the Austrian composer Franz
       Schubert as his source material. Again, the track is about 50 minutes long -- a journey from tumbling piano patterns
       to a drifty Vienna Wall of Sound, from Schubert to Fleischmann, if you want to. The tracks were performed live only once.

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