Castanea

Leermond - Castanea 

featuring Ivan1984 and an Empire State Human Remix

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Castanea - the first Leermond album since a long period of musical abstinence.

Four pieces of electronic music anywhere between cheerfully and melancholic, Schiller and Röyksopp, ambient and dancefloor, avantgarde and pop.

Actually it's an E.P. but it's an important milestone on the way to a whole album in the future. I have much on it to publish these four songs now.

Special feature is the collaboration with Ivan1984 on song Kastanien. The Cover - an unusual interpretation of a cosmic event - along with the title of the album and the song Kastanien it is a puzzle. But what's the relation, the meaning of castanea and the lyrics of the song? Guess!

Kastanien - featuring Ivan1984

"Gebe mich den Träumen und Visionen hin, vergess das graue Leben."

I had the idea for this song when communicating with Ivan1984 via email. He is the good soul of jamendo. I ask him (he is native english) to speak a german sentence "Gebe mich den Träumen und Visionen hin, vergess das graue Leben."  It has excited me to have this accent on the words. Then I have created the song using the original rhythm of Ivans voice. Then I brought him to sing using a vocoder  and created this wonderfull song with brightly melancholic and the clear tendency to earwig.

Zion

This song represents the main idea of Leermond in a special sense. Simple melodies on harmonic pads, diversely arranged, various sounds, giving a good feeling despite the sadness.  The sample of street athmosphere at the beginning takes a special nerve. In the street Zionskirchstraße (Berlin), I experienced so far my most intense experiences as a musician in the 90s.  Zion is also a bridge between then and now.

soundsample: "0150.Heimlich_ManAver.Berlin.Zionskirchplatz" Autor Heimlich Man, found at soundtransit under Creative Commons License.

Wasser

Actually, only a gap filler, but with something special. The song uses a sample of a song of my very first band in 1989 and is thus a reminder of the absolute beginning (we actually had not even instruments). 

Melancholic Afro Leermond Remix 

with courtesy authorization of Ninthwave Records and LAPTOPROCKERS!

This remix was created in February as a contribution to the remix competition on Laptoprockers Remix Contest: Kraftwerk Meets Human League [ 2009 ] to the song "melancholic afro" of the band "Empire State Human". For this song they has worked togehter with Wolfgang Flür from Kraftwerk. I have taken the original vocal tracks only for this mix (not more). The whole song around it is completely Leermond. It's not the winning remix but it cames into the narrow selection of the jury award of laptoprockers, They mentioned in the laudation: "We came across Leermond's unexpected composition that we somehow couldn't get out of our heads. Psychedelic and middle of the road at the same time." Right.

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