Nils Frahm & Anne Muller

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4...according to our Clinton on Fri 09 Jul, 2010.

Hoorah - its a sunny day and instead of working my fingers to the bone packing your delicious records I've been allowed to do the reviews. Treats are in store too for you if you purchase this new Nils Frahm and Anne Muller CD. Muller produces beautiful music using cello and other stringed instruments whilst Frahm chips in with delightful clicks and cuts. It sounds like a total collaborative process, some tracks seem to be based around the electronics with the strings on top and other tracks sound like complete orchestral pieces with the electronics adding a contemporary edge. In both cases though one compliments the other to splendid effect. Comparisons could be drawn to Rachel's, Max Richter, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bersarrin Quartet, Plaid, the accessible end of Machinefabriek. The glitchy electronics are nice in themselves but the strings add a completely different dimension completely. Go Seek.

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Apart from her work with the Wolf-Ferrari-Ensemble and classical violoncello engagements, Anne Müller has often been an enthusiastic escort, the smallest string orchestra possible, surprising and fulfilling the vague string desires of bands and collectives – Sdnmt, Phillip Boa, Klez.E – with a profound knowledge and brave ideas. Now she discovers and invents new ways for herself, now she bestows new freedom and new borders upon herself and her instrument: Loops, songs, landscapes, faults and acoustic glitches find their place in her performance, and her performance finds its place among them.

The other half of the Müller-Frahm reciprocity encompasses a multitude of notes, sounds, harmonies, melodies. Nils Frahm‘s biographical orbit is filled with sound sources, production and composing possibilities. He makes analogue joy and digital ecstasy complement and enhance one another rather than playing the old off against the new. As the recognition continues to grow for both of his solo piano works, ‘The Bells’ and ‘Wintermusik’, 2010 will see his third release on Erased Tapes Records as well as extensive tours alongside Balmorhea, Rachel Grimes and many others.

Two heads, four hands, 7 fingers that want to and are able to, that search and that find. Their company are raging and resting machines, algorithms, oscillations and scratches at the window. They create the broken orchestra, the smooth club drive, the acoustic reflections, fireworks, tiny gramophones. „7fingers“ dissolves into sound, combines into rhythm, becomes pulse and motion and sleep and acceleration. Nils Frahm and Anne Müller, cello and piano and all that is good and music.

Tracklisting

Teeth
7fingers
Let My Key Be C (Thriller Edit)
Show Your Teeth
Because This Must Be / Augmentation
Journey For A Traveller
Reminds To Teeth
Duktus
Long Enough

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