Excerpts:
soundcloud.com/offcenternl/hanno-leichtmann-loop-music-excerpts
Digital album available via
hannoleichtmannmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hanno-leichtmann-loop-music
008 (∞)
After a conversation and exchange of ideas orbiting his album 'Unfinished Portrait Of Youth Today' (2013, The Tapeworm),
german sound artist Hanno Leichtmann contributes a beautiful collection of Loop Music to the Off Center catalogue.
Sitting, immersed in a silent film noir played slightly too fast.
The movements uncanny. Trying to follow a storyline by lip
reading and listening to the tonality of the score.
Here. Rewatching this scene over and over. Again.
Suspenseful progressions throughout. (Parts 1-18)
Often times we're left with a strangely familiar feeling.
The warming, fuzzy frequencies constantly bordering
on melancholia. Collaged, vivid memories and emotions.
It's dark again.
The lonely detective on a corner with his hands burried.
Waiting, watching, observing, following a suspect unnoticed.
The case unravels in his head. Then it's being chased through a
dusty mechanical room. Not a soul. Gears and wheels are whirring
at a volume, faint shifting, the material slowly disintegrates.
Rapid rotations and steady beeping overlayed (hypnotic hum)
A distant siren. Try to focus. Try to find a way through the smog,
the oily, moist air. Hallucinations.
Hanno Leichtmann is based and working in Berlin, has published
works on Entr'acte, Karlrecords, his own label Picture/Disk, and collaborated with Faitiche's Jan Jelinek and Andrew Pekler among
a variety of artists.
More info via
hannoleichtmann.com
released December 7, 2020
Recorded between February & March 2020
at Static Music in Berlin DE
Dubbed to cassette October 2020 in Den Haag NL
Design by Luca van Grinsven