Emerging Fervour

Last weekend started off on the right foot, because I had my tickets for the perfect musical weekend foray. Düsseldorf, Albuquerque, Jönköping and Gothenburg. And again I had to realize that expectations are a funny thing. They rarely come up with what you expect them to.

First of all, I went to see Hauschka for the first time ever. I totally devoured Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka‘s last album “Foreign Landscapes” and was really curious about his prepared piano show. There is just one word for this guy and his music: ace. He was using tape, little tambourine metal jingles, marbles and some other weird stuff I couldn’t identify, to put it on the piano strings. The sounds he created were savvy and magical, I haven’t seen anything like this before. Although he was “just” playing his instrument, watching him add and remove things to change the sound of the piano, felt like watching a scientist inventing something. His idea of making electronic music without using any electronic devices works quite perfect.

It’s the time of the year, where apparently nothing has changed in music for the last 50 years. No matter where you go or what you do these few weeks, you’re being persecuted by ‘Silent Night’, ‘Winter Wonderland’ or ‘The Little Drummer Boy’. Only the interpreters slightly vary here and there. Finally most of the people have come to terms with the fact that there is no other sound between mid-november and the end of december. So you might enjoy these three christmassy sound alternatives. Merry Christmas!

“That Fuzzy Feeling” and is a compilation made by LOaF Recordings and the Arctic Circle. 15 tracks from artists like Isan, Peter Broderick, Hauschka, Rothko and the Sleeping Years or the North Sea Radio Orchestra look into this particular mood, and this certain melancholy that’s wafting all around this time of the year. All tracks tend towards electronic music or/and contemporary classic, but without avoiding typical christmas sounds. And all the songs on the album prove, that you don’t have to reinterpret the same old classics again and again. There is a fair amount of space in this musical universe to add some new christmas sounds.

The Explorers Club is a collaboration between LOAF Recordings and the Arctic Circle Collective.
And the title is right to the point. This monthly one-off single compilation brings you amazing soundscapes from a diverse range of genres from all corners of the world. So if you consider yourself as an explorer, this is definitely your cup of tea. I’m running out of words to describe the music, but I think this is the idea of the Explorer’s Club. These amazing tunes have to be experienced, you can’t just listen to them. But if you let your mind travel this will be a great journey.

So how does it work?

With a subscription to the Explorer’s Club you will receive a monthly e-mail for one year with the instructions how to download the release of the month. As a special bonus you’ll get the Explorer’s Club survival bag which includes a quality organic cotton tote bag, screen printed calendar & poster and some extra little surprises, all specially designed by the Pika Pika design team.