"There is a wide variety of vignettes, but there is never a feeling of rummaging through the lost and found. Rather the opposite, as if looking through suitcase of a distinguished world traveler. Everything has a purpose and all of the belongings connect in some seasoned way."
lost in a sea of sound
"Like with much of the Baldruin output, there is a lineage being extended, as Schebler advances into Korm Plastics territory and weaves between ‘dirty ambience’, synthpop oddities, grey scale glitched electronics and ominous drone in various time-dilating/reality warping ways."
World of Echo
lost in a sea of sound
"Like with much of the Baldruin output, there is a lineage being extended, as Schebler advances into Korm Plastics territory and weaves between ‘dirty ambience’, synthpop oddities, grey scale glitched electronics and ominous drone in various time-dilating/reality warping ways."
World of Echo
Balruin's album emerges from the pits of the oneiric, capturing throughout 21 tracks an abundance of shadowy and fleeting impressions as if collected during a late night state of unconsciousness.
The album's German title "Miniaturen“ translates as "miniatures“ and fits like a black velvet glove to Baldruin's music. Over the past few years Johannes Schebler recorded and released a secret library of small and scary sounds and this album adds another chapter to the Book of Baldruin. Sonic sketches assembled with dreamlike confidence to keep you one foot from the grave.
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Re-issue on vinyl:
All tracks are jam-extracts, recorded live while in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The album's German title "Miniaturen“ translates as "miniatures“ and fits like a black velvet glove to Baldruin's music. Over the past few years Johannes Schebler recorded and released a secret library of small and scary sounds and this album adds another chapter to the Book of Baldruin. Sonic sketches assembled with dreamlike confidence to keep you one foot from the grave.
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Re-issue on vinyl:
Here we are 10 years later and Baldruin has ever since been building his name and repertoire… releasing 9 albums during these years… Quite some of these albums are finding its way to the turntable here on a regular basis… But the Miniaturen album on cassette has always been my personal favorite…
Johannes and I have discussed several times to release a Baldruin album on Vrystaete… but none was fitting the Vrystaete aesthetics so well as Miniaturen… it is dreamy, comforting, but also melancholy without becoming too heavy on your mood… Music wise the Baldruin trademark is there… the music is playful… created with electronics and all kind of (toy) instruments… the sounds are like the compositions itself: small, delicate, magical, surreal and full of craftmanship… only Miniaturen sounds less abstract and hectic as some of the Baldruin albums do at times… it has a flow and mood similar of Coil’s Musick To Play In The Dark… at least to my ears…
These 11 small compositions have never felt like 11 separate pieces to me… they have always felt and have been experienced by me as two larger pieces of music… the way the pieces flow in and out of each other made me press the music to vinyl as two long tracks… one on each side of the record… so without hard cuts in between the tracks but still with the original flow as intended by the musician…
—All tracks are jam-extracts, recorded live while in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Artwork by Johannes Schebler.
Words by Carlos Godinho and Holger Adam
Words by Carlos Godinho and Holger Adam