edgar froese/tangerine dream,
chapterhouse,
daniel lanois,
sakamoto/yellow magic orchestra,
pink floyd,
propaganda,
andreas vollenweider,
brian eno,
jean-luc ponty,
cocteau twins,
reinhold heil,
slowdive,
sylvian/jansen/barbieri/karn,
holy ghost inc.,
andrew prinz/mahogany,
shades of rhythm,
tears for fears,
lfo,
stefan zauner,
pete parsons/lucky spin recs,
lush,
biosphere,
bukem/good looking recs,
my bloody valentine,
richard h. kirk,
kate bush,
manuel goettsching,
alec empire,
prefab sprout,
unique 3/chill recs,
sun electric,
production house recs,
mark van hoen/locust,
warriors dance recs,
curve,
william orbit,
quazar,
the orb,
seefeel,
metheny/mays,
flying saucer attack,
808 state,
...
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Released: 25th of June, 2007 Track Listing:
01. Never Be The Same
02. Shine
03. Stars
04. Einfeld
05. In Between The Years
06. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
07. A Song About Hope
08. Medusa
09. Goodbye
10. For Good
Purchase the Quicksand Memory EP:
Released: 11th of June, 2007 Track Listing:
01. Look At The Sky (Rob McVey Version)
02. Medusa (Edit)
03. Gone Forever (Robin Guthrie Version)
04. On My Own (Robin Guthrie Version)
Purchase Far Away Trains Passing By CD here:
Purchase A Strangely Isolated Place CD here:
Ulrich Schnauss was born in northern Germany fishing port Kiel in 1977, during his formative years he grew a love for a broad spectrum of music ranging from my bloody valentine to tangerine dream, chapterhouse to early bleep & breakbeat tracks. There was not much opportunity to see some of his musical heroes in Kiel, so the inevitable pull of the big city meant a move to Berlin in 1996.
By which time Ulrich's musical output had already become prolific with a variety of pseudonyms (most notably View to the Future and Ethereal 77) veering from ambient to drum and bass via electronica. These earlier works were soon, catching the eye of Berlin electronica label CCO who took up the story:
"It came a bit of a regular thing, those anonymous packages sent to us from Berlin with a single CDR, a biro scrawl revealing at closer inspection the simple stamp 'Ethereal 77'. Ulrich had been making music for years, producing, touring, piecing together that BIG sound. And yet each of these CDR instalments revealed something a little more personal."
Soon these submissions to CCO developed into Ulrichs first album under his own name entitled Far away Trains Passing By which as it slowly seeped into peoples consciousness became an electronic classic. Listeners were taken with the lush instrumentation and the emotion of the elegant, simple and beautiful music.
Yet nothing was to prepare his growing army of supporters for this next record A Strangely Isolated Place which slowly came together during 2001 into a record that really showed some of Ulrichs youthful indie influences. His debut album under his real name established his pedigree as an outstanding electronic composer, but somehow he managed to take it further by developing his interest in songwriting for electronic music, born of his love for such giants of the independent world as My Bloody Valentines Kevin Shields and Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie. From this humble conception, comes forth a record of surprisingly rare emotional power.
A Strangely Isolated Place has become one of those extraordinary and rare occurrences; a genuinely word-of-mouth record slowly growing in stature by virtue of its over-riding ability to deliver more than the usual arid and academic treatises on the state of the synthesizer, or solipsistic bedsit meanderings.
Ulrich's third album, Goodbye, is the end of a chapter in his sound. "I see these three albums as moving closer to something I wanted to do right from the beginning but didn't quite manage," he says. "Merging songwriting and indie elements with electronic music. I've tried to take all the ideas to the maximum."
So the ambient tracks are more spacious, the songs more memorable, the multi-layered, guitar-heavy tracks more ragingly psychedelic. Just listen to the obliterating rush of Medusa, or the cloudbusting dream-pop of Stars (performed by long-time collaborator Judith Beck). Like its predecessors, Goodbye constructs its own world, vast and vivid. This is the album he's been moving towards for over a decade: a sonic tour de force, an alternative reality, a life-changer.
Hello! We are living in Berlin since 2 months ago, and since we are here we've been expecting to see you live. Now i see it's been 4 years since you last acted live here, and we are very happy to see you tonight at Berghain. Do you know the hour you are scheduled to play? We work tomorrow, so i expect you play not too late.
I just wanted to stop by and say that your music makes me day dream. ;) Thanks for givng us such wonderfully warm melodies on top of beautiful vocal patterns & harmonies. Have a nice day! ;)
Honestly Brother, Monday Paracetamol, is a masterpiece and I commend you on such a musical achievement, thank you for creating such wonderful music! I actually heard a snippet of it in the Dark Skies Documentary that aired on current.com, and I had to hear the whole song, I found you in the credits and discovered you on Myspace!
Hey Ulrich. Not sure if you ever even check your myspace page. But I felt inspired by the youtube video 'Terabithia Shine'. It was a great montage and perfectly executed with your 'Shine' song.
You can see that video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldmoPw3n5V4
I decided to combine one of my favorite films of all time, The NeverEnding Story with your 'Chapterhouse Cover' song. Please check it out when you have time! I hope you like it half as much as I love your music.
Here is the address of the video I've created: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sLlyBOcO4o
