Adventurous German pianist Nils Frahm has had an extremely productive 2015, as he has released the album Solo, scored the film Victoria, and issued a Late Night Tales compilation. It looks as if 2016 is shaping up to be another busy one from the German experimentalist, since he has already announced an album with a project called nonkeen.
This lower-case-favouring trio consists of Frahm and longtime friends Frederic Gmeiner and Sebastian Singwald. Their debut album is called the gamble, and it will be out on February 5 through R&S Records.
These musicians have been collaborating since childhood; a press release release notes that Frahm and Gmeiner met in elementary school and began creating radio shows using toy tape recorders. They met Singwald during a summer sports exchange and formed a band after the Berlin Wall came down.
Frahm engineered the gamble, which was put together from four-track tapes created over the course of a decade. They even drew on some of those early recordings from their childhood during a process that involved improvising, choosing the best sections and overdubbing. Fellow electroacoustic artist Andrea Belfi helped out during the overdubbing phase, and random elements like tape glitches played a large part in shaping the result.
The band haven't shared any music from the album just yet, but the tracklist below and that's the album cover above.
the gamble:
1. the invention mother
2. saddest continent on earth
3. ceramic people
4. animal farm
5. this beautiful mess
6. capstan
7. chasing god through palmyra
8. pink flirt
9. re: turn!
This lower-case-favouring trio consists of Frahm and longtime friends Frederic Gmeiner and Sebastian Singwald. Their debut album is called the gamble, and it will be out on February 5 through R&S Records.
These musicians have been collaborating since childhood; a press release release notes that Frahm and Gmeiner met in elementary school and began creating radio shows using toy tape recorders. They met Singwald during a summer sports exchange and formed a band after the Berlin Wall came down.
Frahm engineered the gamble, which was put together from four-track tapes created over the course of a decade. They even drew on some of those early recordings from their childhood during a process that involved improvising, choosing the best sections and overdubbing. Fellow electroacoustic artist Andrea Belfi helped out during the overdubbing phase, and random elements like tape glitches played a large part in shaping the result.
The band haven't shared any music from the album just yet, but the tracklist below and that's the album cover above.
the gamble:
1. the invention mother
2. saddest continent on earth
3. ceramic people
4. animal farm
5. this beautiful mess
6. capstan
7. chasing god through palmyra
8. pink flirt
9. re: turn!
