False Mirror

Performed and recorded live at Antischall studios in snow-covered Wuppertal at 22.11.2008.
This is a free EP you can download at audiophob.

North is the second full-length album released as False Mirror. Many of the techniques, methods and effects I developed during the production of 'Chronostatic Scenes' were applied.

Whereas 'Chronostatic Scenes' dealt with a dreamscape athmosphere, 'North' is much colder and darker.
I was always impressed by arctic surroundings and the early expeditions to the poles. This is the mood of the album, like an arctic expedition somewhere into nowhere.

Many of the sounds come from recordings of acoustic instruments like guitars, accordion, gongs, mouth organ which were extremely effected and processed. There are also environmental recordings I made from the North Atlantic Ocean and during the European windstorm 'Kyrill'.

The cover again was painted by Sylvia Riester and was inspired by the stunning fjords of Norway.

Chronostatic Scenes is the first full-length CD released as False Mirror.

This album evolved from images and moods of my dreams I collected in a dream-diary. the 8 scenes are mixed into a continuously floating piece of ambient and could therefore also be regarded as sceneries for a plot within the listener's head.

the best way to listen to this album is being in a nebulous state of mind, drifting between awake and asleep when images float between presence and imagination.

The album was produced from december 2005 till september 2006 with a long preceding period of so called 'sound-design-studies'.
I dismissed many of the tracks I began for this album due to my steady urge for perfection (and even did some changes afterwards).

The cover was painted by Sylvia Riester who will do the artwork of all following False Mirror releases. Her majestic, dark and still landscapes are blending very well with the mood of my music.

I played a quite spontaneous live concert at
2007's culture night here in Ulm. It was a complete improvisation and I was using a slightly different setup from what I usually have on my studio projects.
You can find the complete recording at the Downloads Section.

Gras was the result of a long process. It startet when I met Martin from Stadtgruen on a gig in Ulm. We noticed that we had a pretty similar musical taste and he liked the tracks i had made so far, so I decided to create an EP solely for Stadtgruen.

The first tracks were 'Blütenstaub' (which I also put on mp3.de under a different name) and 'Wassermann'. Especially 'Wassermann' defined the direction of the Album. As mentioned above it wasn't ment to become an full-length-album, but as things are, music always has the last word.
The probably most interessting track is the jazzy 'Horizont' which I recorded live together with two friends.

After all... Success of this Album was overwhelming and it is by today the most-often-downloaded artist-release on Stadtgruen.