Browse by Artist: LALI PUNA

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Remember
Label:	A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ANOST 022EP

Morr Music brings you this perfect appetizer of Lali Puna's fourth album, Our Inventions (MORR 098CD/LP). "Remember" is the album's most jubilant track, perfectly recalling the extrovert tendencies of Faking The Books (MORR 044CD/LP). Mastered at Abbey Road Studios, this track has the kind of clever arrangements and haunting melodies that truly make a hit. "Remember" was heavily requested when it was streamed on various web sites like Pitchfork.com, and it has received heavy rotation on many radio stations. Also includes a non-album track.

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Move on/After All Stop
Label:	A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ANOST 023EP

"Move On," taken from the Lali Puna album Our Inventions (MORR 098CD/LP), is a track that summarizes pretty well what Lali Puna is about: it starts with a quite abstract and kicking beat that is accompanied by Valerie Trebeljahr's voice but then the refrain comes in: and thanks to the generous harmonies, the whole song now suddenly blossoms out, but without losing focus. The previously-unreleased flipside features a long introduction that uses the voice as a transcendent instrument.

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Scary World Theory
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 023CD

Released in 2001. Valerie Trebeljahr has been quietly whittling away at her very own blueprint of pop music. Steering well clear of prevalent harmless geniality, her aim is to cleverly and intelligently dissect our perception of the world around us. Lali Puna have now become a fully-fledged band, carefully selecting band members (from Console, The Notwist, Tied & Tickled Trio, Iso68, Fred Is Dead). Following their album debut Tridecoder, Scary World Theory achieves the perfect combination of pop and (personal) politics. Behind ostensibly shy, almost withdrawn vocals, Valerie is by no means coy about confronting the world's ambivalent status quo, bluntly documenting current conditions underneath putative fragility. And the music, too, demands our full attention. Between hummable chords and sometimes soothing, almost hypnotic monotony, each repetition discloses multi-layered complexity as well as cleverly hidden counterpoints. No matter if atmospheric, exuding classical warmth or quietly breathy -- again and again Lali Puna tear heartbreaking harmonies from the sparsest of arrangements.

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Faking The Books
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MORR 044CD

Faking The Books, Lali Puna's third album, is a maverick display of pop sensibilities applied to a world gone wrong. All the ingredients are there: the killer hooks, the subliminal fusion of generic undertones, Valerie Trebeljahr's alluring vocal delivery that at first soothes the senses and at second glance portrays the system in all its celluloid, deceptive glory. Faking The Books is all about the signs of our times, inverting the Zeitgeist into something that not only explores the musical fusion of raucous instrumentation and layered, soothing production, but that also tells its story with a multi-colored grip on our peculiar reality. The songs direct themselves with a pop conviction that isn't afraid to mix vintage synths, vocal effects, garage drum workouts, Detroit strums, carefully arranged strings, electronic bass drums and a homage to all the bands that have paved the way for such diversity.

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Faking The Books
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	LP+12"
Price:	$19.50
Catalog #:	MORR 044LP

LP version. Morr Music re-releases this vinyl album in a new configuration including the Micronomic vinyl 12" (MORR 045CD/EP) and a download code. Limited to 500 copies only. 2004's Faking The Books, Lali Puna's third album, is a maverick display of pop sensibilities applied to a world gone wrong. All the ingredients are there: the killer hooks, the subliminal fusion of generic undertones, Valerie Trebeljahr's alluring vocal delivery that at first soothes the senses and at second glance portrays the system in all its celluloid, deceptive glory. Faking The Books is all about the signs of our times, inverting the Zeitgeist into something that not only explores the musical fusion of raucous instrumentation and layered, soothing production, but that also tells its story with a multi-colored grip on our peculiar reality. The songs direct themselves with a pop conviction that isn't afraid to mix vintage synths, vocal effects, garage drum workouts, Detroit strums, carefully-arranged strings, electronic bass drums and a homage to all the bands that have paved the way for such diversity.

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Micronomic
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MORR 045CD

This is the follow-up single to Lali Puna's third album, Faking The Books. The CD version includes a video to "Micronomic." To round things off, Micronomic includes two Lali Puna songs, which were written and recorded while the band worked on Faking The Books. "The Daily Match" clearly focuses on Lali Puna's pop skills and is one of their most accessible songs to date. "Harrison Reverse" is one of the band's rare instrumental compositions presenting Lali Puna's more electronic and abstract side. Features remixes by Anticon artists Alias and Boom Bip.

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	I Thought I Was Over That: Rare, Remixed and B-Sides
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MORR 056CD

I Thought I Was Over That is the playful offspring of a band finally confident enough to re-visit their most daring and individually conceived moments to date. It's also an opportunity to look at those artists who have inspired them in one way or another over the years, pressing them to develop through remixes, collaborations and cover versions where their ideas blossomed from raw material provided by other artists -- and vice versa. This is a double-album that features various rare tracks, remixes and B-sides by Lali Puna, as well as remixes by Dntel, Two Lone Swordsmen, Boom Bip, Alias, Thomas Leboeg, To Rococo Rot, Flowchart and Sixtoo.

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Our Inventions
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MORR 098CD

This is the fourth full-length album by Germany's Lali Puna. More than half a decade has elapsed since the release of Faking The Books (MORR 044CD/LP), but the band's impact on the climate of electronic rock music remains palpable. Along with sister-group The Notwist, this Weilheim quartet have helped map out the musical landscape for modern, experimentally-minded pop music, and Our Inventions finds Lali Puna continuing to push the frontiers of their medium. "Rest Your Head" serves as a perfectly poised re-introduction to the band and all they've become. Initiated by waves of glassy pulsations and warm, swelling synths, the song has the feel of a reverse-lullaby -- gently winding its way through reposeful melodies, guided by the welcoming whisper of Trebeljahr's vocal until the final third kicks in with drum machine hits. While Faking The Books, with its vibrant riffs and extroverted tendencies, had the sound of a record begging to be played live, Our Inventions exhibits the hallmarks of an album spun from intensive studio-bound introspection. Two of the most explosive and ebullient songs here -- "Remember" and "Everything Is Always" -- confirm so much of what's special about Lali Puna: all the elements are at once precision-engineered and delivered with absolute heartfelt conviction; perhaps never before have such jubilant pop hooks been so meticulously and fastidiously crafted, yet you can always hear the soul behind these machines. The final song is a collaboration with the Yellow Magic Orchestra's Yukihiro Takahashi. The version appearing here is an alternate rendering of the track that appeared on Takahashi's Page By Page. The sublime, virtuoso electronic arrangements of Our Inventions directly lock onto the record's recurrent key themes, depicting a world inundated with technology and consumed by a fixation on progress -- simultaneously passing commentary on this state of affairs and overcoming it. Members: Valerie Trebeljahr (keyboards, vocals); Christoph Brandner (also of Tied & Tickled Trio) (drums); Christian Hei� (keyboards); Markus Acher (The Notwist) (keyboards).

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Our Inventions
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MORR 098LP

LP version with printed inner sleeve and MP3 download coupon. This is the fourth full-length album by Germany's Lali Puna. More than half a decade has elapsed since the release of Faking The Books (MORR 044CD/LP), but the band's impact on the climate of electronic rock music remains palpable. Along with sister-group The Notwist, this Weilheim quartet have helped map out the musical landscape for modern, experimentally-minded pop music, and Our Inventions finds Lali Puna continuing to push the frontiers of their medium. "Rest Your Head" serves as a perfectly poised re-introduction to the band and all they've become. Initiated by waves of glassy pulsations and warm, swelling synths, the song has the feel of a reverse-lullaby -- gently winding its way through reposeful melodies, guided by the welcoming whisper of Trebeljahr's vocal until the final third kicks in with drum machine hits. While Faking The Books, with its vibrant riffs and extroverted tendencies, had the sound of a record begging to be played live, Our Inventions exhibits the hallmarks of an album spun from intensive studio-bound introspection. Two of the most explosive and ebullient songs here -- "Remember" and "Everything Is Always" -- confirm so much of what's special about Lali Puna: all the elements are at once precision-engineered and delivered with absolute heartfelt conviction; perhaps never before have such jubilant pop hooks been so meticulously and fastidiously crafted, yet you can always hear the soul behind these machines. The final song is a collaboration with the Yellow Magic Orchestra's Yukihiro Takahashi. The version appearing here is an alternate rendering of the track that appeared on Takahashi's Page By Page. The sublime, virtuoso electronic arrangements of Our Inventions directly lock onto the record's recurrent key themes, depicting a world inundated with technology and consumed by a fixation on progress -- simultaneously passing commentary on this state of affairs and overcoming it. Members: Valerie Trebeljahr (keyboards, vocals); Christoph Brandner (also of Tied & Tickled Trio) (drums); Christian Hei� (keyboards); Markus Acher (The Notwist) (keyboards).

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