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APL045 >> SEGUE - SYNESTHESIA
[03.07.2007 | SOUND / EMOTION]

Herwig Holzmann, co-founder of netlabel Laridae, has been composing electronic
music for about seven years.  Now, after releasing music as Macon Tights and
Photophob, he graces netlabel Autoplate with an album under his own name
blending ambient atmospheres with gentle beats and warm melodies by way of
ôHow to Stop...ô

Working as Macon Tights, Herwig describes his initial albums as ômixtures of
gloomy pieces of drum & bass and dreamy IDM tunesô consisting of a multitude
of ôdestroyed, altered, and rearrangedô audio samples.  Later he changed his
alias to Photophob, invested in some new software and hardware, and his sound
began to evolve into something ôwarmer, less dirty, and more complex.ô His
work as Photophob ranges from laid-back IDM to drill næ bass/break-beat to
ôslowed down, repetitive, ambientô compositions,  and, as even the most cursory
listening will reveal, itæs to this latter category that the sounds of
ôHow to Stop...ô belong.

Herwig describes his method of making music as ômusical storytellingô -
soundtracks for nonexistent movies.  He wants listeners to create their own
stories and images in their minds as they listen to what he describes as his
pieces of ôaudio fiction.ô  Most often when he creates a new track he begins
with a hazy idea of the mood that he wants to establish and then instinctively
generates sounds and rhythms that converge on that idea.  The titles of the
tracks, the artwork, and any samples used are as integral to his albums as the
music itself.  Itæs this network of ideas, sounds, and other parameters that he
attaches to an album that allows its listeners to create his/her own mental
picture (such as a story, a film, a painting, etc.) by association. As Herwig
puts it: ôMy albums are intended as balanced dramaturgical stories, the tracks
are the chapters.ô His approach to ambient is akin to that of Consoleæs ôMonoô
album or artists of the likes of Biosphere similar in style to theô Scandinavianô
approach of smooth ambiance and sounds full of warmth and crackle.

In summarizing the album, Herwig says that ôHow to Stop...ô is about enjoying
the immediate moment and taking pleasure in the beauty that our minds can bring
into existence. Itæs ôabout stopping short, about pressing the pause-button of
life and stepping out of the notional restrictions that our stressed out lifeæs
put on thinking and perception.ô  From a technical viewpoint, ôHow to Stop...ô
is an ambient complement to various complex rhythmic and beat-oriented releases
that he has been working on concurrently.  These ambient counterparts (of which
ôHow to Stop...ô is an prime example) focuses more so  on ôcalmed down soundscapes
and repetitive structures.ô

So learn how to stop ... and press the pause-button of life for a few moments,
breaking away from the daily routine long enough to let your psyche  savor this
new album of ôaudio fiction.ô Let these eleven ambient-leavened story-songs stir
your mind and soul with over an houræs worth of mellow beats and serene melodies.

:: 11 tracks :: 65min 03sec :: 91.619 MB ::

01: Herwig Holzmann - ... A Heart From Beating
02: Herwig Holzmann - ... Him For Feeling Sorry
03: Herwig Holzmann - ... The Day From Breaking
04: Herwig Holzmann - ... These Thoughts From Circling
05: Herwig Holzmann - ... Your Eyes From Crying
06: Herwig Holzmann - ... This World From Turning
07: Herwig Holzmann - ... Some Birds From Singing
08: Herwig Holzmann - ... That Scratch From Itching
09: Herwig Holzmann - ... Her Hands From Trembling
10: Herwig Holzmann - ... My Head From Hurting
11: Herwig Holzmann - ... Everything From Changing

[AUTOPLATE.RELEASES]

APL001 VA - "Bauhaus"
APL002 Andrey Kirichenko - "00.00"
APL003 Danny Kreutzfeldt - "Furtherspace"
APL004 833-45 - "Solar Cycle"
APL005 Affective Disorder w/ Undacova - "Study Of A Ladybug On A Rope"
APL006 VA - "Constructions for Andrey Kirichenko"
APL007 Taavi Tulev - "Televiisor On Tuksis"
APL008 Vultrapia - "Autopianotationalismasoschism"
APL009 Dighom - "Vibrating Colours - Coloured Vibrations"
APL010 Sable - "Dusk"
APL011 Randomajestiq - "UnclassifiEP"
APL012 Gultskra Artikler - "Gruppa Turistov"
APL013 The Moglass w/ Andrey Kirichenko
APL014 Off The Sky - "Studies of Lifeform In Transit"
APL015 Johan Wieslander - "Gas"
APL016 Fernando Lagreca - "Suave"
APL017 Marsen Jules - "Lazy Sunday Funerals"
APL018 tlon - "acoustic lazy dolls"
APL019 Gultskra Artikler - "Gololed"
APL020 VA - "Many Things Worth Living For"
APL021 Konrad Bayer - "Shall We Go To The Park?"
APL022 Normal Music - "Let's Do Really Strange Things And Call Them Normal"
APL023 Marsen Jules - "Yara"
APL024 Konrad Bayer - "Songs For Sunhi (Summerrain)"
APL025 Kenneth Kirschner - "May 3, 1997"
APL026 Arrial - "this is my beauty, show me yours"
APL027 color by numbers - "The Transitions"
APL028 lomov - "Holzwege"
APL029 Fernando Lagreca - "Nadador"
APL030 tlon - "from elsewhere to nowhere"
APL031 Lou Teti - "Night Pieces"
APL032 you dee - "Nur die Harten kommen in den Garten"
APL033 Off the Sky - "Caustic Light"
APL034 Motionfield - "Music for Pictures"
APL035 Move D - "Johanniskirche Live"
APL036 Emil Klotzsch - "Tiefe Berge"
APL037 Protogroup - "Love Gives Strength To My Soul"
APL038 Arrial - "For The Love"
APL039 Segue - "Forest Refrations"
APL040 Fern - "This First Day"
APL041 Fernando Lagreca - "Colpi Di Sole"
APL042 Klotzsch & Sudermann - "Holzlaub"
APL043 Various Artists - "A Summer Frost And A Winter Thaw"
APL044 Daniel Blomqvist - "Skallberget"
APL045 Segue - "Synesthesia"
APL046 Herwig Holzmann "How To Stop ..."

AUTOPLATE is a THINNER sublabel for versatile electronic music.

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website: http://www.autoplate.cc

contact: sebastian@thinner.cc

thanks scene.org for support!
http://www.scene.org
ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/thinner/autoplate/

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.nfo inspired by mono211;ascii by dipswitch;.diz by rasterburn
composed and hacked by sebastian redenz november 22nd 2003