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:	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:	Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung!
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MORR 085CD

Morr Music releases another record by their old Viennese friend B. Fleischmann. Two genuine and touching farewell songs are the beacons of light on this record, and, even more than The Humbucking Coil, Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung! has made its way from sound to songwriting. Still the sounds come tumbling out of the hard disk and one can hear fingers screwing on regulators. And yet these nine tracks are of a distinct corporeity and spatiality; for instance, when Marilies Jagsch or Sweet William Van Ghost lend their voices for two wonderful moments each. The productive feedback between Vienna and Berlin, between Bernhard Fleischmann and Thomas Morr started with Pop Loops For Breakfast nine years ago. With Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung!, Bernhard Fleischmann arrives at a carefully-set wooden table, arranged in a warm and glowing sunset. The aromas are darker and more wholehearted now. The groove box of former times has vanished almost entirely -- only within the congenial embrace of Bernhard Fleischmann's "Phones & Machine" (The Humbucking Coil) and Daniel Johnston's "King Kong" can it still be traced. Regardless of the change in tune, these sounds won't pass you by -- they swing on to the next morning, stroll through the streets with you, drift as an echo from the houses' walls; sometimes as a slow dub, sometimes as an intimate ballad. These are sounds that tumble and dance.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung!
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MORR 085LP

LP version. Morr Music releases another record by their old Viennese friend B. Fleischmann. Two genuine and touching farewell songs are the beacons of light on this record, and, even more than The Humbucking Coil, Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung! has made its way from sound to songwriting. Still the sounds come tumbling out of the hard disk and one can hear fingers screwing on regulators. And yet these nine tracks are of a distinct corporeity and spatiality; for instance, when Marilies Jagsch or Sweet William Van Ghost lend their voices for two wonderful moments each. The productive feedback between Vienna and Berlin, between Bernhard Fleischmann and Thomas Morr started with Pop Loops For Breakfast nine years ago. With Angst Is Not A Weltanschauung!, Bernhard Fleischmann arrives at a carefully-set wooden table, arranged in a warm and glowing sunset. The aromas are darker and more wholehearted now. The groove box of former times has vanished almost entirely -- only within the congenial embrace of Bernhard Fleischmann's "Phones & Machine" (The Humbucking Coil) and Daniel Johnston's "King Kong" can it still be traced. Regardless of the change in tune, these sounds won't pass you by -- they swing on to the next morning, stroll through the streets with you, drift as an echo from the houses' walls; sometimes as a slow dub, sometimes as an intimate ballad. These are sounds that tumble and dance.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	Melancholie/Sendestra�e
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.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	For M/Mikro_Kosmos - Two Concerts
Label:	SOUND OF A HANDSHAKE (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.50
Catalog #:	SHAKE 012CD

These two concerts B. Fleischmann recorded complement each other and interlock quite smoothly and organically, lifting you up when the other is pulling you down and vice versa. The first track "For M - A Tribute To Mark Linkous" was recorded in May 2010 at Klangboden M�dling: Austrian angst might still be no option for a Weltanschauung, but there is a certain unease at work in the beginning, pushing down the strings and the cautious guitar loops. The entire piece is a musical obituary for the man who started Sparklehorse and shot himself only a few weeks prior to this very concert. While Fleischmann takes care of electronics, guitar and omnichord, as he usually does, he was joined on stage by Matthias Frey (violin, snare), Martin Siewert (guitar, lap-steel, bass, electronics), and Alexandr Vatagin (bass, electronics, cello). The resulting 45+ minutes of commemoration, initiated by B. for the late M., so to speak, is a dark yet glistening pile of leaves, in which the musicians repeatedly return to the bass line, the key note, the pulse, the "why," to all those existential questions about the end we all have to face one day. Question marks in the shape of a soaring lap-steel guitar appear on top of beats that turn and squeak, softly, like an extended lament, a form of rebellion, a consultation of yet more instruments, wondering and meandering in unison, until it all gives way to a swooshing noise, a threat to crush the listener from the inside, gnawing, biting, then resolve at last: harmony, harmonies, a shadow of zest, faith. Although he has contributed vocals now and then in the past, our man from Vienna remains silent for the second track as well, focusing on ambience alone: "Mikro_Kosmos," a solo piece, was recorded in June 2010 at "Festival Irritationen II." Like scoundrels in striped rags, a bunch of sounds appear on the quiet, two of them and a third hidden in the underbrush keeping watch, yet the electronic fetters soon get a hold of them, and a pool is filled with swirling, creaking textures, sliding downwards under a long note, long and wide like a horizon of dark clouds. "Mikro_Kosmos" is a spectacle of nature, a self-renewing environment populated by wraithlike creatures. In the middle part, Fleischmann's guitar takes the lead, runs wild, things are head over heels all of a sudden, there's beating and elopement, until we hear new paws on the ground, and the playing field is ready to be cluttered up once again: grow, thrive, wither, fade away, be eaten, until the next breakup sets this little world on fire.

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