Release Date: 07 June 2019
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Because Music
£18.99
Brandt Brauer Frick Echo Limited Vinyl 2LP + CD Set
Overview:
Brandt Brauer Frick return with their fifth album, Echo. Self-produced and recorded at both their own and the Red Bull studios in Berlin.
Formed by friends, Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer and Paul Frick, in Berlin in 2009 and inspired by both the city’s classical history and its dank dancefloors, the trio’s bricolage beats owe as much to minimal masters Steve Reich and Philip Glass as they do the minimal techno of Ricardo Villalobos and the Perlon label. Their debut album You Make Me Real, released in 2010, blended the highbrow music of concert halls with the euphoric abandon of club music and in doing so helped to pioneer the contemporary classical movement.
Their 2011 follow-up, Mr Machine, a ‘remix’ version of You Make Me Real, saw them rearrange the tracks for their newly founded ten-piece ensemble, using brass and string instruments, as well as harp, piano and percussion and over the next few years they would continue to do the unexpected and explore the hinterlands of electronic music - their third album Miami (2013), was a concept record that drew on noirish funk and spooky synths and worked, using an unusual slate of guests including Jamie Lidell, Nina Kraviz and German post-punk icon Gudrun Gut and then they morphed into a post-punk band entirely for 2016’s Joy, bringing onboard Canadian poet Beaver Sheppard as their frontman.
Now, with Echo they’ve gone back to where they started and it’s an album that, says Brauer, “echoes our ten years of existence”.
“It's about getting back to what we started off with,” continues Brandt, “but of course, after 10 years, we’ve gained more know how. When we were starting out we just had one microphone and a broken piano to make our first album.”
Flawlessly produced, it showcases the trio at the peak of their powers. It masterfully plays with dynamics and precision and yet it’s more club-focused, too, surging between serene minimalism and slo-mo 4x4 beats. Their typically knotty assemblages of all manner of instruments and unlikely percussive sources are still present, but eventually give way to irresistible groove.
Echo is without doubt the classic sound of Brandt Brauer Frick, reborn and rewired and brought brilliantly back to life.
They have also announced a number of European gigs over the summer including a show at London’s Electrowerkz on Thursday May 16th.
Featured Tracks:
Side A
1. Rest
2. Chamber 1
3. Decades
Side B
1. Extend
2. Masse
3. Echoes (Feat. Friedberg)
Side C
1. Chamber 2
2. Fuel
Side D
1. Encore (Feat. Catherine Ringer)
2. Chamber 3
3. Mont Blanc
Release Date: 02 June 2023
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Because
£24.99
