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Bells Breath

by Andreas Usenbenz

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    The clear 12" comes inside a Transparent PVC bag with a flap. Inside you´ll find 4 (31.5 x 31.5) Prints on heavyweight nature paper with architectural photos made inside the church after the field recording session for the album.

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"A CLOSER LISTEN"

Ten bells, ten recordings, three tracks, one fine album.
We’ve been waiting on Bells Breath for quite some time,
ever since the sleep version appeared on Klanggold last April. This is the “parent” recording, available on clear vinyl. And what a lovely sound it makes.
Those who live around the Ulm Minster are certainly familiar with the sound of the bells, but they’ve never heard them like this. Andreas Usenbenz stretches the recordings, doubling them over and soldering them together until they spread and set like sonic glue. The results became an installation, placed in a room directly below the bells, where visitors might hear the sound in each, in turn, ~ or perhaps, if lucky, together.
A church bell is meant to do more than call people to worship. At one time, the bell was a town’s primary means of telling time. As such, the importance of the bells cannot be overstated. Spirituality was conveyed through chimes, but the workaday world was set in motion as well. Toward the end of the day, citizens yearned to hear the tolling that indicated the end of a shift. Modern societies have more... more
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released February 17, 2017

All field recordings, sound design & compositions by Andreas Usenbenz, between March 2015 and May 2016

The music is based on field recordings of 10 different church bells installed in the Minster of Ulm. Usenbenz recorded the bells using a wide-spaced A - B pair with omnidirectional DPA microphones,
a Sennheiser ORTF setup and contact microphones mounted directly to the bells or their direct environment.
The Bells were rung by the Sacristan. Additionally, Usenbenz played them with different props to tease very specific sounds out of the bells. No additional sounds were used in these compositions.

Produced at Klangmanufaktur
Artwork by Chris Corrado
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Cut by CGB at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Distributed by a-musik

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released October 28, 2020

All field recordings, compositions, and Photography by Andreas Usenbenz

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Andreas Usenbenz Ulm, Germany

Andreas Usenbenz is a sound collector, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He lives and works in southern Germany. His work mainly deals with sounds from his immediate environment. These sounds, preferably drawn from their context, serve as the starting point for his compositions. Since 2006 he has been running the record label "Klanggold". ... more

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