This is Klimek's (Sebastian Meissner) second full-length release for the Anticipate label, the follow-up to 2007's Dedications. Movies Is Magic deals both directly and peripherally with ideas of film music: its purpose, its meaning, its uses. Though the music is furthered by the concepts underpinning it, it stands on its own two sonic feet with swathes and swells of cinematic, expansive melodies: from the bold to the understated, the shades of grey to the brightly direct, the string-laden to the piano-driv...   [ read more ]

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Sebastian Meissner (aka Klimek), living in Frankfurt/Main, is a concept artist, composer, sound designer and photographer, and this is his second full-length release on Kompakt. The follow up to the critically-acclaimed 2005 full length Milk & Honey, Music To Fall Asleep breathes new life to the world of indie-folk and ambient. Meissner's perseverance to the progression of contemporary music and use of found sounds has taken listeners on journeys to Jerusalem, deep inside the turmoil of the Palestinian con...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The documentary-moviemaker Jörg Adolph and his cameraman Luigi Falorni are telling the story of the mystic 33 kilometres from Dover (UK) to Calais (France). The Mount Everest for long distance swimmers. For the belonging soundtrack "Solo-swim" the Notwist worked with dissected guitars and electronic, but they also let Nick Drake and his acoustic guitar cross the channel. Because the music of Klimek played an important source of inspiration for that song, the Notwist asked him for a remix. Mar...   [ read more ]

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