Die halluzinierte Welt (Lullabies for Insomniacs, 2020)
"Focussing on the maintenance of mental equilibrium amidst the unprecedented challenges of coronavirus lockdown, the gently lysergic Die Halluzinierte Welt by Baldruin is an understated treat."
Norman Records
Sonic sketches of impressions and internal imagery.
All tracks recorded 2019 and 2020 in Wiesbaden,
Germany by Johannes Schebler
Artwork: XCVIII (detail) from the series Of Unknown Origin by
Johannes Schebler
Released on cassette/DL in 2020
Norman Records
Dawn of a new day, nature is immersed in a magical light.
The aura is raptured by this illumination and the atmosphere is ecstatic.
A transition occurs from an intense emotional state to a hallucinated reality, revealed by expanded perceptions.
Emerging from surreal visions, fears, hopes and desires materialize.
Authentic experiences morph, before transforming back into fleeting memories that return with time again.
The aura is raptured by this illumination and the atmosphere is ecstatic.
A transition occurs from an intense emotional state to a hallucinated reality, revealed by expanded perceptions.
Emerging from surreal visions, fears, hopes and desires materialize.
Authentic experiences morph, before transforming back into fleeting memories that return with time again.
Sonic sketches of impressions and internal imagery.
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A sickle moon dangles, reflecting on the waters surface.
Dancing horns appear.
Dancing horns appear.
To descend from the sky is to fall into division.
Grand green gradients of life salute the sun.
Grand green gradients of life salute the sun.
Clouds melt into a mountain,
As silhouettes come closer.
As silhouettes come closer.
Built horizon,
flooded with silence.
flooded with silence.
Mediated windows, glazed.
Led by brilliant planes of chrome and glass.
Led by brilliant planes of chrome and glass.
Silver May rain comes.
A custard aroma wraps skin soft.
A custard aroma wraps skin soft.
Blinking asphalt is dampened,
birch scattered as ghosts hung.
birch scattered as ghosts hung.
Red, raw pines mourn.
Their tears of debris become armour.
Their tears of debris become armour.
The path lined with stones and broken promises.
First of May, Izabel
—All tracks recorded 2019 and 2020 in Wiesbaden,
Germany by Johannes Schebler
Artwork: XCVIII (detail) from the series Of Unknown Origin by
Johannes Schebler
Released on cassette/DL in 2020
Klaue (SPAM, 2012)
"This Baldruin plays with the edges, mastering the indistinct and implied. In the same way a micro-movement of the cheek and eye muscles can turn a smile into a snarl, twists of the sonic palette warm up chilly electronics until they are a comfortable 98.6 Fahrenheit all over."
radio free midwich
Known for his dreamy lo-fi ambient soundscapes Baldruin introduces a sonically more abrasive side on „Klaue“. There’s more distortion, more noise, more abstract random clutter. Chaos reigns sometimes and general darkness prevails.
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Tracks recorded 2015 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Released on cassette/DL in 2015
radio free midwich
Known for his dreamy lo-fi ambient soundscapes Baldruin introduces a sonically more abrasive side on „Klaue“. There’s more distortion, more noise, more abstract random clutter. Chaos reigns sometimes and general darkness prevails.
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Tracks recorded 2015 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Released on cassette/DL in 2015
Im Delirium (Wounded Knife, 2014)
"Very cinematic ooze by german musician Johannes Schebler. His cassette has something of a bedroom vibe, but still manages to sound like music that should be paired with an exploitation movie directed by one of David Lynch´s more talented acolytes. Even the vocal tracks are tensely creepy."
The Wire
"Drifting scene to scene with a blurring and fading sense of context (genre, demeanor, instruments used), Schebler orchestrates a series of bleak and disarming vignettes that channel everyone from David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, Sami Sänpäkkilä’s es, múm or a one-man NNCK. Tracks like “Schwarze Spinne” are unsettling with an almost visceral quality, whispering not so subtle threats soundtracked by a quiet storm of acoustic and electronic textures. “Kriechspur” and “Unterwegs in der Glaskugel” shimmer in a transcendent tapestry of haunted, orchestral tones and drones while the weightless melancholy of “Orionnebel” gives a doomed resolve, reveling in a hopeful despair of sorts."
Decoder Magazine
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Tracks recorded 2013 and 2014 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Released on cassette/DL in 2014
The Wire
"Drifting scene to scene with a blurring and fading sense of context (genre, demeanor, instruments used), Schebler orchestrates a series of bleak and disarming vignettes that channel everyone from David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti, Sami Sänpäkkilä’s es, múm or a one-man NNCK. Tracks like “Schwarze Spinne” are unsettling with an almost visceral quality, whispering not so subtle threats soundtracked by a quiet storm of acoustic and electronic textures. “Kriechspur” and “Unterwegs in der Glaskugel” shimmer in a transcendent tapestry of haunted, orchestral tones and drones while the weightless melancholy of “Orionnebel” gives a doomed resolve, reveling in a hopeful despair of sorts."
Decoder Magazine
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Tracks recorded 2013 and 2014 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Released on cassette/DL in 2014
Nachtfalter (Brave Mysteries, 2012)
"Complete enchantment: A feeling of timeless magic, that strange type of shifting, like hiking through the woods as day turns to dusk, protected from the oncoming darkness as the final strands of light enter through the trees; a magical peace. Johannes Schebler executes a relentless aesthetic, regardless of the instruments, compositions, or elements."
Foxy Digitalis
"Johannes creates a complex, labyrinthine space reminiscent of a forest. It is filled with reverberating echoes and faint rustlings, mysterious chimes and the echoes of voices. Any attempt to find one’s bearings in this forest is like trying to catch something on the edge of one’s vision, only for it to vanish the moment one turns one’s head."
Pied Piper
Bavarian romantic animist Johannes Schebler is astrally navigating this young project Baldruin; whose output has mainly been splits with kindred Franconian spirits on the excellent sisic label. Over the course of 12 elegant post-industrial mementos, the gently expressive acoustics unfold and stretch out, ever-cloaked in a fog of ghostly electronics. Cast your lot with the new dreamers of the day.
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Remastered by Nathaniel Ritter, April 2020
Tracks recorded between 2010-11 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Originally released on cassette/DL in 2012
Foxy Digitalis
"Johannes creates a complex, labyrinthine space reminiscent of a forest. It is filled with reverberating echoes and faint rustlings, mysterious chimes and the echoes of voices. Any attempt to find one’s bearings in this forest is like trying to catch something on the edge of one’s vision, only for it to vanish the moment one turns one’s head."
Pied Piper
Bavarian romantic animist Johannes Schebler is astrally navigating this young project Baldruin; whose output has mainly been splits with kindred Franconian spirits on the excellent sisic label. Over the course of 12 elegant post-industrial mementos, the gently expressive acoustics unfold and stretch out, ever-cloaked in a fog of ghostly electronics. Cast your lot with the new dreamers of the day.
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Remastered by Nathaniel Ritter, April 2020
Tracks recorded between 2010-11 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Originally released on cassette/DL in 2012
Schatten & Lichter (Cae-Su-A, 2011)
"With all of its variety, the most striking aspect of “Schatten & Lichter” is just how beautiful and well done it is. This is really intricate and varied music that somehow fools the mind into accepting it without over-thinking. Everything just seems to make instant sense on some deep level. For how effortless it feels, it’s easy to discount just how much thought and work must have gone into making these incredible sounds, yet these hidden, intricate charms slowly emerge with repeated listening. And really, multiple spins through this tape shouldn’t be a problem, since you’ll want to listen to it a lot after you hear it once."
Foxy Digitalis
Sleepwalking in lost memories, a hairy goblin processes ambient Lo-Fi nightmarish tales on keyboard, flute, found objects and percussion. Recalling images from childhood days in the Bavarian woods, these Madeleines taste like cold sweat; dark, romantic and surreal elegies for a past never experienced, only imagined. Some call it “Hauntology”, we call it Bavarian Gothic. Schatten & Lichter provides ten sonic stillborn changelings at midnight, preserved and presented here on tape.
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Recorded in Wiesbaden, Germany in 2010 & 2011
Released on cassette/DL 2011
Foxy Digitalis
Sleepwalking in lost memories, a hairy goblin processes ambient Lo-Fi nightmarish tales on keyboard, flute, found objects and percussion. Recalling images from childhood days in the Bavarian woods, these Madeleines taste like cold sweat; dark, romantic and surreal elegies for a past never experienced, only imagined. Some call it “Hauntology”, we call it Bavarian Gothic. Schatten & Lichter provides ten sonic stillborn changelings at midnight, preserved and presented here on tape.
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Recorded in Wiesbaden, Germany in 2010 & 2011
Released on cassette/DL 2011
3" cdr
Aufbruch (Makrame, 2013)
Aufbruch (Makrame, 2013)
"The production is crisp, vibrant, crystal-clear and entirely organic, revealing a myriad of nuances, indescribable sounds and a certain whiff of the magical Canterbury sound, the folk hypnosis of our much-missed Tara Burke, the ethereal world of M.M. Peres, the toy-like sonic waves of Jonathan Fitoussi and, above all, the tribal sweetness of Sunhillow.
Unmistakable melodies of true psychedelic craftsmanship, in which enchanted forests still exist, elves still exist, and there remains a fantastical atmosphere of music boxes with dancing girls inside and microscopic labyrinths of ancient clockwork mechanisms. a warm, rural, artisanal touch, so in keeping with the spirit of macramé, that captures better than ever ~and never has a phrase been more apt, for Johannes Schebler also paints and colours~ the nooks and crannies of his miniaturised, sparkling ambient folk soundscapes."
Microphones in the Trees
Unmistakable melodies of true psychedelic craftsmanship, in which enchanted forests still exist, elves still exist, and there remains a fantastical atmosphere of music boxes with dancing girls inside and microscopic labyrinths of ancient clockwork mechanisms. a warm, rural, artisanal touch, so in keeping with the spirit of macramé, that captures better than ever ~and never has a phrase been more apt, for Johannes Schebler also paints and colours~ the nooks and crannies of his miniaturised, sparkling ambient folk soundscapes."
Microphones in the Trees