From The Desk Of Flim.

A Spaceship

A Zoo

Out Now: Out Of Doors

“Out Of Doors” was composed in 1993 without the use of a computer. Played on piano and DX 7 synthesizer and mangled through a damaged delay the single phrases where recorded on tape and then edited with cut and paste technique to get longer loops of the instrument parts. It was the first piece of music i have released on cassette and years later on CDR. After a spring cleaning the digital file was lost but by a fluke Tom Steinle, the founder of Tomlab, discovered a copy in his archive.

nuun records from France has released now “Out Of Doors” in the Eclipse Series. The CD comes in a beautiful cardboard digisleve packaging, with a “look like vinyl” CD and is hand-numbered and limited to 200 copies.

The Park. Around The Corner.

Out Of Doors

Heart, Sharp, Mask & Rubber

Orange by Didier Goudeseune

After a four years hiatus, which I feared was at first supposed to be definitive, Enrico Wuttke, from Dresden, Germany, is back in action under his Flim moniker for a EP on the Dutch label Plinkity Plonk. If the artwork pictures a lemon, the title focus on another citrus fruit, orange, and in a similar shift after the highly personal and moving emotional content and impact of “Pola Music” and “Ohne Titel”, the four tracks and 28 minutes of this EP were created for the dance piece ‘Refugium’, based on the novel ‘The Wall’ by Marlen Haushofer. There is indeed something scenographic with “Orange”, something alive, strong, invigorating but achieved through the exigencies of minimalism and clarity. His approach seems to evolve in the direction of a classical ambient expression, with more place to sampled, simply played or next processed and reassembled acoustic instruments. The first composition, “That’s all”, is also the highlight of “Orange”, with a slowly evolving loop structure, conjugating different instrumental source in a state of symbiosis, something like a progressive sunrise in a garden, watching the opening of flowers and the incessant peregrination of birds and insects until the close of the day. “Two hits on a can” and “Lament” are more abstract and strange, mixing instants of grace and of trouble, like being lost in the middle of a confusing dream where things, people and events are never totally what they seem to be at first. The last track, “Reiser” is like waking up suddenly after a bad dream and feel relieved as the present existence is no more confronted with such displeasure, it is about enjoying simple events, like how the wind plays with the branches of trees, how the rain can thwart the protective use of an umbrella, really not far from the Yuichiro Fujimoto sense of aesthetics.

Dear Yumiko. Do you remember this?

The Park. Around The Corner.

For Frans De Waard

Really old. Recorded in 1992 or 1993. Made with the “Painter” software for ATARI ST computer and DX7 synthesizer.