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Have a few passes for this. PM me. First back.....
German indie/electronic/ambient artist best known for his 'Faraway Trains Passing By' album returns to Dublin.
POD Concerts presents
ULRICH SCHNAUSS
Support: Airiel, Chequerboard
Friday May 2nd
THE BUTTON FACTORY
Curved Street – Dublin 2.
Doors – 7.30pm
Tickets €17 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.ulrich-schnauss.com
www.myspace.com/ulrichschnauss
www.airiel.com
www.myspace.com/airiel
www.chequerboard.net
www.myspace.com/chequerboardmusic
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.
German indie/electronic/ambient artist best known for his 'Faraway Trains Passing By' album returns to Dublin.
POD Concerts presents
ULRICH SCHNAUSS
Support: Airiel, Chequerboard
Friday May 2nd
THE BUTTON FACTORY
Curved Street – Dublin 2.
Doors – 7.30pm
Tickets €17 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.ulrich-schnauss.com
www.myspace.com/ulrichschnauss
www.airiel.com
www.myspace.com/airiel
www.chequerboard.net
www.myspace.com/chequerboardmusic
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.
