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some words about 'summer kling' by F.S.Blumm:

... 'summer kling' is german and means click to get a big-size version of the record sleeve
label: morr music

some words about 'summer kling' by F.S.Blumm:

... 'summer kling' is german and means something like: Hummer sound! It is an imperative as if You are talking to a dog, or to something like a futuristic sound-machine, or an electric bell and Your commanding that it shall make a sound: to hum or to buzz...

...I composed most of the songs while visiting friends on the island of 'la palma'. I love being outside and looking into the distance. That's maybe the main mood of the compositions itself. While producing the pieces I wanted to have them as intimate and silent as possible: I always told Jan (the drummer) to play less and less and to hit softer and softer. I myself especialy enjoyed to play the upright-bass, which to me is a very laid-back instrument (disregarding the blisters it gives you)...

.. I tried to be very close to the microphones to keep the directness and intimacy. I wanted to do a very light album; I wanted to put as much pop and summer in it as possible .... now it is much more sunny than my other albums, but I still have my natural borders about pop.... this is the first album which I arranged on the computer and so it is richer in instrumentaion and much more delicate in balancing the single instruments...

PRESS-TEXT for 'summer kling'
F.S. BLUMM likes to get on his camping van with his guitar, drives to the south and writes his tracks on the bench in the back. On the road, in the tent, when it’s raining, between barking dogs, beneath a blue sky, getting ready to jump into the sea. Before, F. S. Blumm has immersed himself in Berlin, in the big city, where one can see and listen to the things the other people in the other cities make up. F.S. Blumm absorbs everything and takes it with him. On his way the input transforms into an output. From a distance one sees more clearly. F.S. Blumm finds melodies, atmospheres and within the quiet the atmospheres do find him. Back in Berlin F.S. Blumm invites friends to his place. They bring their instruments: a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a trombone, a flute … and they go in a chamber facing the back, where no tram can disturb them, where instrument and microphone can cuddle up in each other. Again, it has become familiar: barefooted steps on the wooden floor, the breath stays audible, transparent. String instruments ensnare harmonies and in peaceful familiarity the wind section lays on top of the crest of a wave. In soft lines. The album’s title ‘summer kling’ shall be understood as an encouragement of a sound producer as well as – in a deliberate confusion of the English word – document the attempt to write a summery album. In its circumspect opulence of sounds and noises ‘summer kling' has become a late summery record. F.S. Blumm moves backwards from autumn. And he is gradually gaining speed.
‘summer kling’ will be interpreted live together with Wilm Thoben and Andreas Otto: as the F.S.BlummTrio



BIKINI KRAKOR: FLUTE ( 12 )
ANNE LAPLANTINE: ELECTRONICS ( 11 )
JOCHEN BRIESEN: ELECTRONICS ( 2, 4, 5 )
BORIS D HEGENBART - MATSUI: ELECTRONICS ( 12 )
JAN VAN HASSELT: TRUMPET ( 10, 14 )
ANDREAS OTTO: CELLO ( 2, 3, 8, 10, 16 )
SPIRIDON SAKOUFAKIS: TROMBONE ( 7, 9, 10 )
JAN THOBEN: DRUMS ( 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 16 ), WESTERN-GUITAR ( 14 )
WILM THOBEN: CLARINET ( 2, 5, 7 )
MARCEL TÜRKOWSKY: E-BASS ( 4, 5, 13 ), ELECTRONICS ( 2, 11 ) WHISTLING and FIELD-RECORDING ( 11 )
ULRICH WANGENHEIM: BASS-CLARINET ( 2, 3, 5, 6, 12, 15 ), FLUTE ( 2, 3, 11, 15 ) and
HARALD 'SACK' ZIEGLER: FRENCH-HORN ( 1, 11, 15 )

F. S. BLUMM handles GUITARS, PENCIL, MICROPHONES, MULTITRACKER, DOUBLE-BASS, BANJO, PIANO, XYLOPHONE, METALLOPHONE, ORGANETTA, MELODICA, KEYBOARDS , ELECTRONICS, BEATS, COMPUTER, TOY-PIANO, VOICE

F.S.Blumm- 'summer kling' - CD/LP on morr music (Berlin ´06) published by AUTOPILOT MUSIC PUBLISHING 2006
Issued - 2006
Tracklist
- KOFFER
- BINSEN & BAST
- LAND
- FLOSSE
- HAUS & HALM
- LÜFTCHEN
- HALBTON
- ZUM LÜFTCHEN
- LILLI
- KOFFER DILL
- SICHT
- FLOCKE
- WURF
- WALDE
- ZU WALDE
- DREHLICHT

Press
De:Bug review
"Mit "Summer Kling" verfeinert Frank Schültge seinen modernen, swingenden, musikalischen Impressionissmus.
Ausgefeilter als auf "Summer Kling" klang er nie. Wenn man über diese Musik reden muss dann sollte man sich flüsternd erzählen, wie schön sie eigentlch ist."(--2006)
Spex review
"Warum ist Frank Schültge noch kein Superstar? Wo doch in praktisch jeder Besprechung seiner zahlreichen Soloarbeiten eines der grössten Komplimente an Musik, die Verknüpfung mit der Utopie einer schöneren oder besseren Welt auftaucht?.."(--2006)


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