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HELMUT 003LP
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My Interstellar Love Life is the third studio album by Berlin-based songwriter Adrian Schull, aka Helmut. Formerly known for his eloquent use of the loop pedal in focused solo performances, he sought out a group of skilled friends to join the H train for his latest record. Starting off the songwriting process in playful sessions with close friend and multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Do Mayer, they were later joined by jazz drummer/composer Akira Nakamura and guitarist/composer Johanna Weckesser, a recent student of Kurt Rosenwinkel. Together they rehearsed and arranged the new material at his Neukölln practice space. Nakamura since followed the calling to return to his hometown in Okinawa but drummer/producer Garagen Uwe took over for him during late studio production. Studio sessions were overseen by Helmut's longtime collaborator and co-producer (Polymono, Our Walls) Marius Bubat, one half of Cologne electronic duo COMA. The themes in this collection of eight songs range from exhaustion with the overall human experience ("Enough"), metaphorical dreamscapes "where men turn to stone" ("Flowers"), love/ghost stories ("Ballin'"), misplaced romantic expectations ("Monster") on to bitter-sweet musings on the entertainment industry itself ("Take All"). To end things on a wholesome note the synth-pop-ballad "Cheer u Up" which might just cheer you up in this brave new pandemic winter. Personnel: Akira Nakamura (drums); Do Mayer (bass, synths, backing vocals); Garagen Uwe (drums, percussion); Helmut (guitar, vocals, synths, bass); Johanna Weckesser (guitar, bass, synths, backing vocals); Ralph Heidel (sax on "Monster"). Mastered in Berlin by Enyang Urbiks. Transparent white vinyl; includes lyrics poster.
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HELMUT 002LP
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Double LP version. Edition of 500. Helmut on Our Walls: "After only three short years, my second album Our Walls is out. It comes clad in vinyl, polycarbonate, bits, and bytes and I'm very happy and relieved to finally let go of this one. The cores of its ten/eleven (CD/2LP) tracks were developed on a loop pedal at home. Lyrics spun here and there. Almost all of them are trying to extract levels of meaning from an ever-changing knot of emotions. They take their time -- ranging between three-minutes-forty to thirteen-minutes-fifty-seven -- to clinically isolate, examine, and name the elementary building blocks constituting the knot. Our Walls is about the ups-and-downs of your everyday-mercilessly-hopeless love relationship, about staying mild when things get rough, fabulous metaphors, childish self-defense mechanisms, the burning space in between words and our very personal walls that have so far always kept us safe." Double LP version includes an extra track featuring Camera.
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HELMUT 002CD
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Helmut on Our Walls: "After only three short years, my second album Our Walls is out. It comes clad in vinyl, polycarbonate, bits, and bytes and I'm very happy and relieved to finally let go of this one. The cores of its ten/eleven (CD/2LP) tracks were developed on a loop pedal at home. Lyrics spun here and there. Almost all of them are trying to extract levels of meaning from an ever-changing knot of emotions. They take their time -- ranging between three-minutes-forty to thirteen-minutes-fifty-seven -- to clinically isolate, examine, and name the elementary building blocks constituting the knot. Our Walls is about the ups-and-downs of your everyday-mercilessly-hopeless love relationship, about staying mild when things get rough, fabulous metaphors, childish self-defense mechanisms, the burning space in between words and our very personal walls that have so far always kept us safe."
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