Nonkeen (Nils Frahm & friends)
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24/042016Café De La DanseParisComplet
Nonkeen est le nouveau projet de Nils Frahm, jeune compositeur et pianiste berlinois, qui s’associe à Sebastian Singwald et Frédéric Gmeiner, des amis d’enfance.
L’album a mis huit ans à prendre forme. Tout au long des années 90 ils se sont envoyés des enregistrements et se retrouvaient l’été pour jouer ensemble.
Plus tard, à Berlin, ils ont repris leurs instruments et ont commencé à enregistrer de longues sessions expérimentales dans la cave de Singwald, tout en y associant ce qu’ils avaient pu créer pendant leurs échanges d’enfance…
Après ce premier album The Gamble sorti en février, Oddments of the Gamble leur second album sortira le 15 juillet.
English
German composer Nils Frahm has announced an album for R&S Records made with two of his childhood friends over the course of a decade.
Now going by the name nonkeen, the trio first met at primary school in a rural suburb of Hamburg. As kids, they would make their own radio shows on rudimentary tape machine, with Frahm and his friend Frederic Gmeiner joined by East German schoolboy Sebastian Singwald in the summer of 1989 when he came over the border on an exchange with his athletics team.
Throughout the 90s they would send each other their recordings, meeting each summer to perform their own material. Much later, with all three living in Berlin, they resolved to pick up their instruments again and began recording long experimental sessions in Singwald’s basement, adding parts to some of their childhood recordings and sampling others. The band refused to practise songs or record multiple takes, but they would pick their favourite passages and bounce them to computer to stitch them together. After eight years they decided they had finally finished an album.
Nonkeen’s The Gamble is out on R&S on February 5. Nonkeen will release their second album, Oddments of the Gamble, on 15 July via R&S records.