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01. Brannten Schnure - Goldne Abendsonne, Wie Bist Du Schön
02. Brannten Schnure - Aprilnacht
03. Brannten Schnure - Urin Deiner Blüten I
04. Brannten Schnure - Mutter Maria Zwischen Den Himmeln
05. Brannten Schnure - Requiem Für Eine Ringelnatter
06. Brannten Schnure - Urin Deiner Blüten II
07. Brannten Schnure - Apfelbaum, Kuh Und Backofen
08. Brannten Schnure - Nie Kann Ohne Worte Deinen Glanz Ich Sehen
09. Brannten Schnure - Requiem Für Ein Schwalbennest
10. Brannten Schnure - Morgensonne
11. Brannten Schnure - Afra Altar Maidbronx
ARTIST
TITLE
Aprilnacht
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
ZORN 081LP ZORN 081LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/3/2024

Originally released on tape by SicSic in 2014, Aprilnacht commemorates a decade of music from Brannten Schnüre and marked the spring in a tetralogy of albums about the four seasons when it came out. Back then the Würsburg-based project consisted solely of Christian Schoppik, who later welcomed Katie Rich to take over the vocals. He used to perform as Agnes Beil, but dropped the name when, while making this album realized his music was becoming "much gentler and more fragile." Aprilnacht already captured the particular musical ideas that Schoppik would thoroughly keep exploring, delving deeper and deeper into the use and manipulation of samplers from sources so diverging as to wander between the five continents to post-war German family television and cult cinema. Heir of the ritualistic intensity of Coil, of the intricate sampler assemblies of Ghédalia Tazartès', and of the dusty, dismal old ballads from around the world, Brannten Schnüre manages to make these paths cross in a territory that is as inherent as it is uncanny; sieged by the past and intimate as a hearth. An organic approach to folk, ambient, and sound collage, where ethereal yet thoroughly textured pieces coalesce in enthralling, delicate, and innermost musical rituals. Aprilnacht was inspired by the stories of German philosopher and writer Friedrich Alfred Schmid Noerr, whose work exhaustively examines the conflict between paganism and Christianity, safeguarding myth in a way that Schoppik describes as boldly modern, humorous and unpredictable in its variations of the Germanic folklore motifs. Do not succumb to the insipid howl of death, for nothing may last but mutability. You see, the rock has moved a little during the night; the rest is just wind fleeing from the void.