B Fleischmann - For M / Mikro Kosmos - Two Concerts

Two track titles, separated by a slash; and two independent realms, recorded moments in time, separate sonic worlds: the two concerts b. fleischmann recorded for his new LP don’t need an album title to tie them together. They complement each other and interlock quite smoothly and organically anyway,
lifting you up when the other is pulling you down and vice versa. The first track “For M (a tribute to mark linkous)”, was recorded in May 2010 at Klangboden Mödling: Austrian Angst, there is a certain unease at work in the beginning, pushing down the strings, the cautious guitar loops – which is hardly surprising: the entire piece is a musical obituary for the man who started Sparklehorse. While fleischmann takes care of electronics, guitar and omnichord, as he usually does, he was joined on stage by Matthias Frey (violin, snare), Martin Siewert (guitar, lap-steel, bass, electronics), and Alexandr Vatagin (bass, electronics, cello). The resulting 45+ minutes of commemoration, initiated by b. for the late M., so to speak, is a dark yet glistening pile of leaves, in which the musicians repeatedly return to the base line, the key note, the pulse, the “why”, to all those existential questions about the end we all have to face one day.

Tracklisting:

CD1 For M – A Tribute to Mark Linkous (47:02)
CD2 Mikro_Kosmos (37:46)

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