Philipp Otterbach // The Dahlem Diaries LP

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This is a record released by Philipp Otterbach, an ambient artist from Berlin, Germany, from the Dutch ambient label Music From Memory in July 2023.

Contains 12 ambient to ambient blues songs played with electric guitar.

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12 "black vinyl.

Tracklist:

The Dahlem Diaries (Pt. 1) 04:43
Half Brain Naked 03:51
Left Hand Society 02:42
Talkoot 04:56
Small Town Nights 06:05
Geoluread 02:40
Gottischlag (ft. Gatto Fritto) 04:47
Solid Maybe 06:02
Malarkeys 04:38
Happy And I Skipped 05:25

Music From Memory:

"Music From Memory is pleased to present the new LP by Krefeld-born, Berlin-based artist Philipp Otterbach entitled 'The Dahlem Diaries'.

Recorded in a little-visited corner of the German capital, 'The Dahlem Diaries' is a convergence of ideas, sketches and tracks, both old and new, most of which were produced between 2020-2022. While eerie atmospheres, electronics and drums have played a pivotal role in Philipp's earlier releases, his latest is a rather more introspective affair, in which the guitar takes a leading role. A role Otterbach uses to quietly bring light and hope to his music.

Speaking about his writing process, Philipp explains that, based around his original compositions, “Friends were nice enough to contribute additional parts on their instruments which I then reworked, put together and re-contextualized. The recordings encapsulate a very specific moment in time, one that would have sounded perhaps very different the day before or after.”

Combined with a strong use of effects and field recordings, 'The Dahlem Diaries' feels somewhat like a scene or fragment from a story, in which the narrative remains undefined. It is a playful album that is something of a blurred underwater adventure, sounding as bright as it is hazy, even psychedelic at times, yet with an almost melancholic positivity. In Philipp's own words: “It could be an album about friendship and being at one with myself, whilst at the same time bringing a certain seriousness to my music , but not necessarily to myself; there is also a playful humor hidden in there."

Artist: Philipp Otterbach

Label: Music From Memory

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This is a record released by Philipp Otterbach, an ambient artist from Berlin, Germany, from the Dutch ambient label Music From Memory in July 2023.

Contains 12 ambient to ambient blues songs played with electric guitar.

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12 "black vinyl.

Tracklist:

The Dahlem Diaries (Pt. 1) 04:43
Half Brain Naked 03:51
Left Hand Society 02:42
Talkoot 04:56
Small Town Nights 06:05
Geoluread 02:40
Gottischlag (ft. Gatto Fritto) 04:47
Solid Maybe 06:02
Malarkeys 04:38
Happy And I Skipped 05:25

Music From Memory:

Artist: Philipp Otterbach

Label: Music From Memory

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LP edition of 500. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. Now Dream 06:18\u003cbr\u003e2. Saltos 03:51\u003cbr\u003e3. Ticking Clock 03:37\u003cbr\u003e4. Euphoria Part 2 02:51\u003cbr\u003e5. Euphoria Part 1 01:54\u003cbr\u003e6. Sleep Walker 03:42 video\u003cbr\u003e7. Episode 02:21\u003cbr\u003e8. One Breath 04:10\u003cbr\u003e9. Lost in Descanso 03:00\u003cbr\u003e10. Sunrise 02:52\u003cbr\u003e11. The Hidden Path 02:22\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText excerpt by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eAlan Licht, New York, December 2023:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"About 20 years ago, Carlos Giffoni quickly made a name for himself both as a noise guitarist and a laptop noisician upon arriving in New York (via Florida and Venezuela). His expertly curated annual No Fun Festival, as well as his No Fun label, further solidified him as a key figure in the international noise scene. The festival’s success proved the formula for experimental and improvised music fests could work with the noise underground as well, but it also capitalized on the faster rate of connections being made between geographically disparate artists as a result of the (still relatively nascent) internet. Back then Carlos would play his laptop like a pinball machine, in contrast to the static stage presence of most laptop performers, and his solo music, like many others’ at that time, expressed a less dark and dour vision of the implications of harsh noise. By the close of the 2000s, he had stopped doing the festival, switched gears musically to playing the lighter No Fun Acid sets, and moved to LA.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow he has re-emerged in a big way with Dream Walker, his first full-length since 2018’s Vain (and only his second since 2010). Inspired by the masterful performances and diffusions he heard at the February 2023 GRM electronic music festival in Paris, particularly sets by old friends Lasse Marhaug, Jim O’Rourke, and Eiko Ishibashi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e, he began conceptualizing new music of his own in response, turning to synthesizers and other hardware to produce a work more firmly in the tradition of European electronic music than anything else he’s done. Intended as a late night listen that evokes the edge of consciousness, with Carlos getting as close as possible to a trance state during the actual recording and mixing, each of the eleven tracks transition into one another rather than being standalone discrete pieces, forming two side-long suites that proceed like stages of a dream...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Carlos Giffoni\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Ideologic Organ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCAT No: SOMA053lp\u003c\/p\u003e"}