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01. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Entangleland
02. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Kilani
03. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Yukiyama
04. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Succulent Green
05. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Yukiyama Lost Beat
06. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Inner State Highway
07. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Slide Walk
08. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Active Fault Map
09. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Long Way Home
10. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Inter Twine
11. Andi Otto & F.S. Blumm - Caldera Bay
ARTIST
TITLE
Entangleland
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
PING 070LP PING 070LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/15/2020

F.S.Blumm enters Andi Otto's studio with a whole palette of strings and a mission to create quirky, peaceful soundscapes. The artists intertwine acoustic and electric guitars, harps, electric bass, psaltery, and cello in eleven electronica compositions ranging from neo-classical gravity ("Entangleland") to spaced-out dub jams ("Active Fault Map"). "Yukiyama" evolves in multilayered patterns braided over warm tape-noise. "Kilani" reminds of Rabih Abou Khalil's ECM recordings, with its oriental scale and a beat that counts to seven. The tunes shine most when silence takes over, when the sounds find space to unfold and decay. Far from being trivial ambient lullabies, these compositions burst with detail: Bells rattle, a kalimba resonates, and vintage synths induce their voltage into the acoustic framework. Andi Otto and F.S.Blumm have been musical collaborators in the studio as well as on stages between Berlin and Tokyo for more than a decade now, the heyday being their previous duo album The Bird And White Noise in 2014. On Entangleland, Andi Otto contributes the cello, harp, and synth recordings and takes care of the mixing. Compared to his recent releases on Multi Culti or Shika Shika, these tracks are less dancefloor oriented. The calm of this album is a flourishing environment for Otto to pluck the acoustic cello which we usually hear in a more processed way in his solo works. F.S.Blumm contributes guitar and bass recordings as well as saturated percussion echoes from his self-made spiral box. Blumm is famous for his acoustic solo productions since his early outings on Morr Music or Tomlab. He has also appeared on Pingipung a few times, for example with his album Up Up And Astray (2013) or as a Lee "Scratch" Perry collaborator with the Quasi Dub Development project PING 040CD/LP, 2014). He recorded three duo albums together with Nils Frahm and is a member of the mighty Jeff Özdemir & Friends collective in Berlin. Entangleland sees the two artists weave together a mass of acoustic motifs, synthetic melodies, riddims, and improv jams where the magic emerges from the sum of the parts. "It's not about accompanying a cello theme with the guitar or vice versa," Andi Otto says. "Entangling sound means letting go of hierarchies, that no one is first. Our studio is not a control room, it's a place of imagination where we take things apart and make things whole."