sonnewende (2010) resembles both something of an eternal loss, as well as the concealed joy of continuous recollecting.

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From personare (2011), literally 'sounding through', derives our use of the word 'personality' - which is actually close related to 'a mask'. Not that behind the mask is the true face. On the contrary, only a new mask. 'Per Sonare' is a synthesis of different sounds, different periods and therefore different 'masks' of herbstlaub and contains a divers chose of songs. Ranging from ambient, to more profound dance tracks, while others have been sustained with 'mantravoices' on them.

Up to the listener to unmask this masquerade ((and find a new one)).

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   Interstellarsounds (uk & EU)
   Disk-union (japan)
   Vynilla, gent (be)

released on Other Heights;
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Dutch Review (from Rif Raf - june 2011): click here

Profits go to - worldwatch.org

Zwischenwelt (2011) is a collection of memories - which are for for me literally of interest; inter-est. It suggest to look at a memory as something in-between-being, inter-est, rather than in-being. A memory as something which pulls you outside yourself and places you inside the world. A memory not as an 'Innerwelt', something as a world-less residue or an island that we call 'subjectivity'. But an in-between-world throughout which you are already outside yourself, in music, is life, in being.

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Dämmerleben (2011) Following the suggestion of some of these track titles, don't expect big rhythm changes, this is an ambient release. I won't be offended if you fall asleep on it. Actually, you can view it as an aesthetic accompany thereof. It's for those who have lonely nights. I'm there too.

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   available at Vynilla, Ghent (Be).

Limited edition of 18 hand-made copies. Picture on recycled carbon sleeve, wrapped in tracing paper. Mail to herbstlaubmusic@gmail.com or leave a message on the facebook if you are interested (picture)

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Herbstlaub l Streets Aren't For Dreaming Youth. (2012)

In 1922 Franz Kafka wrote to Milena Jesenská: "Mein Leben ist das Zögern vor der Geburt". 'Streets Aren't For Dreaming Youth' resembles that same hesitancy in a very subtle way. Fear and hesitation, admiration and awe into one breath, felt within one sound. In this album the cold sphere of indecision isn't just attached to the warmth of veneration but merged into a unified bliss. As a sublime synthesis of electronics and ambient, of dance elements and still enjoyable quite parts these tracks are somewhere in between the head and the hands.

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   Interstellar Sounds (Europe)
   Vynilla (Ghent)
   Kornelia (Antwerp)

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Photography is done by Belgium talented artist Jeroen Mylle. Ten copies contains a unique and signed photo of him. Limited to 100th copies. (preview)

Dutch review (from rifraf april 2012): click here

Herbstlaub - Remnants
(2012, Entropy Records)

„ Ja, wenn man Tränen schreiben könnte [...]. “
(Kleist, an Karl Freiherrn von Stein zum Altenstein; 4. August 1806.)

Remnants of sounds, remnants of things or remnants of things already be lost.. All things get lost, eventually. "Remnants" (2012) isn't an attempt to get grip on this matter, trying to give it a second life or as you can state alternatively: trying to get lost the loss. On the contrary, this release is at the heart of the things which pass constant through us, as every moment renews itself - to become: a new one; to become becoming and to lose itself again, in itself. To make this process tangible harmonious parts are alternated with broken sounds, occasionally sustained with deep, tremblings evoking baselines. Repetitive parts are intensified with pure sounds until they get larger and larger, to eventually cut through you and resulting in an explicitly awareness and feeling of this moment. Music as the phenomenology of loss -to get renewed and to become rigid again- because also music must stop; once. Hence the loss.

Herbstlaub', a belgium ambient artist, sound can be described as warm, long stretched melancholic layers which resembles both something of an eternal loss as well the concealed joy of continuous recollecting. Normally he is somewhere inbetween the head and the hands, combining ambient spheres with intelligent beats, for example in his latest album 'The Streets Aren't For Dreaming Youth'. However for this release he totally disrobe himself of the beats and clicks to evoke a world which is dark, actually hardly to conceive a darker one, but pure at the same time. A world which is a witness of loss, and yet that you can experience over again in only 22 minutes.


Photography by Jeroen Mylle.
Mastering and packaging by David Ya.
Music by Herbstlaub.

Released on Entropy Records, ED.005.
Limited to 100 copies.
www.entropy-records.com


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die nachstunde - klangwandler (2011)

Somewhere between the head and the hands is the heart. Die nachtstunde is a collision of ambient structures and minimal discourse with some dubby influences and is the more profound electronic outcome of herbstlaub. Still Herbstlaub and die nachtstunde are on the same road - but 'ventured in reverse'.

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