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Last Updated: 11/30/2009

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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 
some more news from sideprojects that have turned into main projects...
the new phonofix radioplay DU KANNST NICHT IMMER SCHIMMERN, MEIN SPATZ! will be broadcasted this weekend on Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR2)... for more information please follow this link:

http://www.br-online.de/bayern2/hoerspiel-und-medienkunst/sendungen2009-1-phonofix-du-kannst-nicht-immer-schimmern-mein-spatz-br-ursendung-ID1230220733699.xml

enjoy.
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Monday, June 08, 2009 
t's been a while... but finally we can announce the release of the telekaster debut album. telekaster is matthias/phon°noir's main focus at the moment and THE SILENT ANAGRAM has been pressed and will now be released on panic arrest 6 july 2009. it comes as a lovely 180g vinyl in a beautiful high-quality sleeve designed by sebastian haslauer (shakeyourtree.com). 
please check back soon for details as well as a list of sellers and places to order from. 

and another nice release in the pipeline... italy-based experimental label boringmachines will soon release a cd-compilation featuring an alternative mix of telekaster's A SHIFT IN SHAPES. more news on that in a bit. in the meantime you might want to take a look at the latest live videos or (still hot!) at the lovely piece of video art stefan bünnig directed for YOUR FIREWORKS BRIGHTEN MY SKY.

www.myspace.com/telekastermusiken

thanks thanks thanks.
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 
hej everyone,


just wanted to let you know that both of the phon°noir records are back in for sale directly from this site. just drop me a message if interested. the items can be payed via paypal or bank transfer and will be shipped on the same day.


PUTTING HOLES INTO OCTOBER SKIES (2006) - 12 euro incl shipping (europe)

THE OBJECTS DON'T NEED US (2007) - 13 euro incl shipping (europe)

BOTH ALBUMS - 23 euro incl shipping (europe)


as always - thanks for your attention,

& if you like please visit my current main project

telekaster: www.myspace.com/telekastermusiken


matthias/phon°noir


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Monday, April 20, 2009 
dear everyone...
it's been a while. and while these days most of my musical energy goes into producing another phonofix radioplay as well as a theatre soundrack for copy & waste's berlin ernstreuterplatz (maxm gorki theater, berlin), at least i found time to record a cover song as phon°noir (i only did a handful so far...). the classic kraftwerk tune "das modell" will in fact be part of the current theatre score but i also consider it a personal hommage to this ever-inspiring band. this version will not be released for any commercial purposes, it is simply a personal statement. you find it on the player now.
hope you enjoy.
cheers
matthias
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 
i recently found out about the already existing phon°noir page on last.fm (which i didn't set up myself) and realized how many people obviously go there to listen and contribute... i decided to take care of that page a bit in the future, uploading songs from all albums as well as remixes etc. anyone here using last.fm - i just wanted to let you know that at least the 2nd album and the remix EP are now available there, completely. feel free to have a look...

http://www.lastfm.de/music/Phon%C2%B0noir
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Friday, November 07, 2008 
and again: remix news!

lately i reworked a song by alexander veljanov, singer of the wonderful deine lakaien. i am happy to announce my version of the song "we can't turn back" is now featured on the limited 2-cd and 2-vinyl-editions of his solo-album "porta macedonia", out today, 7 november 2008 on premium records/soulfood. at least in germany the album should be available in stores; HERE you can find it on amazon.de.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 
www.phononoir.de/html/countingraindrops.htm

a new phon°noir release is coming up: from monday morning, 27 october 2008, COUNTING RAINDROPS: THE REMIXES will be available for free download from the link displayed above. this first phon°noir download-only release features 7 remixes of tracks from the last album THE OBJECTS DON'T NEED US. the tracklisting reads as follows:

01 gullhomen (calika bass mix)
02 you are the eskimo (tg mauss mix)
03 we still miss the future (mikhail mix)
04 my paperhouse on fire (uzi & ari mix)
05 a different kind of january (karl stirner mix)
06 we still miss the future (eraze the borders mix)
07 we still miss the future (alok mix)

click on a track title to be forwarded to the myspace-site of the remixer.

the download comes as 7 mp3s at a bitrate of 192 kbps, in a zipped folder, containing also a bigger version of the cover art. the beautiful photography was provided by päivi kaikkonen.

if you like get youself your virtual copy of this release. it's free. unzip, play and share it with your friends. it's a gift. and hopefully a nice way to discover not only a new dimension to these tunes, but also a few more artists truly worth listening to!

thank you for your attention.
www.phononoir.de/html/countingraindrops.htm
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 
published on heathenharvest.com, october 2008. indeed an in-depth review.

This is an odd little affair, in the best possible sense of that word. Essentially four tracks of disjointed instrumental minimalism that nevertheless seems to inhabit every space available to it, I must admit that a) I didn’t quite know what to expect and b) was pleasantly surprised by the mercurial nature of the music. Apparently, normally phon˚noir uses vocals in his repertoire, but Matthias Grūbel has this time opted to let the instruments and sounds sing for themselves, and this entry in the Lona Records 3” CD single series is a compact platform from which to display the diverse experimentalism that Grūbel revels in.
As some might have noticed, one of my favourite adjectives is ‘fractured’. Although I recognise the negative connotations of the word, I often use the word more positively, and in the case of phon˚noir its application as a descriptor is decidedly, and affirmatively, positive. The world in which this music has its existence is an unfamiliar one yes, with its clicks, pops, trills and dislocated rhythms, but just because it IS unfamiliar doesn’t mean that it should be left unexplored. It’s a strangely disjointed world indeed, a place where angles defy the laws of geometry and perspective plays tricks with your eyes and mind. You’re never quite sure where firm ground exists, as sounds and moods keep shifting, slipping away just as you grasp them. The slippery quicksilver character of the music keeps you both guessing and chasing, like an avid butterfly collector forever hunting that exotic specimen that has hitherto always managed to elude his nets.
Grūbel creates these odd jazzy/ambient/musique concrete/rhythmic soundscapes with nothing more than a computer, a guitar and a piano. The oddity for me though is that there’s a sense that these are merely impressionistic experiments, a means of exploring the properties and possibilities of the material and instruments to hand. In this sense I feel that Grūbel is a speculative musician, fulfilling a role similar to a speculative fiction writer. Sounds are picked up and looked at from every conceivable angle, shaken, pulled apart and juxtaposed with others, then moved around until pleasing combinations leap out. This is some ways a reflection of the real world, certainly in an evolutionary sense – things that work remain to carry on their charmed lives while those ideas found wanting disappear back into the matrix of potentialities they emerged from.
Opener “Embryo” paints itself in short stabs and thick slabs of sound, joyously detonating, mayfly-like, briefly and spectacularly. Here is a riotous profusion of exotic species, revealing themselves only through flashes of colour quickly seen as they crash through the undergrowth. “From Time to Time we Change our Minds” is more broadly described with insect and mournful avian droning, set against burbling waters and an oddly shuffling rhythm. The disjointed staccato insectile rhythmic intro of “Airplane Traces in the Sky” gently wafts us into a smokily jazzy mood, with piano lazily and languidly floating high above the clouds, an exotically-plumaged bird. Album closer and title track “No More Sad Dreams” is less defined, more ambiently dreamlike haze, reaching out to us from the depths of some pleasant sleep-inspired imaginings. Snatches of voice samples, indecipherable, are like sonic hieroglyphics in some arcane language – somehow we know they have some import but their slipperiness prevents our full grasp. Short brushstrokes paint small daubs of sound, never completely fully formed, leaving us none the wiser in the end. A jumpy beat is the only thing that gives an impression that there’s something more permanent behind it – but ultimately its elusive nature refuses to let us comprehend it. The shimmering fadeout is even less substantial, half-formed memories misting out into final oblivion.
If Matthias Grūbel were a visual artist, there is absolutely no doubt he’d be an Impressionist. The music here is in some ways very ephemeral, in the way of fleeting memories of great and momentous events. Indeed, these four tracks carry a certain weight of nostalgia with them, a feeling of trying to grasp a past forever lost to us. I was left wanting more, and wishing that the limited temporal platform hadn’t been so constricting. This music needs an expansive canvas on which to be painted and displayed; I felt that just as things were beginning to fully coalesce, the song was over. If only short songs such as these sparkle with such potential, I am left wondering what a full-length CD of phon˚noir’s music would be like. That’s a delicious prospect indeed!!
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Monday, October 13, 2008 
   
a new song! a new video!

the previously unreleased phon°noir intrumental track UNTITLED MINIATURE #2 is featured on the forthcoming double cd compilation THE SILENCE WAS WARM Vol. 2, compiled by the lovely folks at japanese label symbolic interaction. it will be in stores accross japan 5 november 2008. order details for the rest of the world will follow.  alongside the release of the tune a new and charming music video has been produced by berlin-based director gulnara petzold. please have a look, it is waiting for you in the about section...

more news on upcoming mini-releases soon...

cheers!
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 

even though phon°noir is still basically on hold due to my being busy with telekaster, phonofix and theatre things, there is still a few things to expect for the rest of the year... a previously unreleased track will see the light of day on the lovely THE SILENCE WAS WARM Vol.2 sampler compiled by the nice folks at Symbolic Interaction in japan. alongside the release of the sampler a new music video directed by berlin-based director gulnara petzold will be revealed on this site as well as on phononoir.de. besides this i did a fancy cover version for the german magazine Spiesser (more on that later...) and while i am writing this i am actually in the middle of working on an interesting remix, which i am sure you will hear about in the near future. my own remix EP entitled COUNTING RAINDROPS will be made available for free download from all phon°noir related websites in october.

in the meantime please visit the sites of my other projects:

www.myspace.com/telekastermusiken
www.phonofix.de
www.copyandwaste.de

Currently listening:
Kasmodiah
By Deine Lakaien
Release date: 1999-04-09
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