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Mare
by Christian Löffler
Arend Maatkamp
Arend Maatkamp
My type of stuff.. super laid back
jcig
jcig
This album is my secret love. Major sevenths in the melody are always so heartbreaking!
Favorite track: Neo.
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Myiami
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Mosaics
03:21
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Neo
07:17
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Youth
02:28
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Lid
05:10
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Mare (feat. Mohna)
04:08
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Athlete
07:04
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Vind (feat. Mohna)
03:53
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Silk
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Nil
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Swim
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Krone
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Pacific
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Pigment
02:24
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Wilderness (feat. Mohna)
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The Great White Open
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about
Located on the Darss peninsular, overlooking the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, is a log cabin, nestled among the jungle-like overgrowth of surrounding birch and willow trees. The cabin is Christian Loeffler's atelier, where he locks himself up to work on both his visual art und his music.
In the centre of the room is a huge oak table, splotched with multicoloured oil paints, surrounded by canvases, cameras tripods, tools, brushes. There's a great view of the sea, and the wide patio windows allow the light to flood inside, casting shadows of the leaves and branches across the walls and onto the table. There's a small fireplace which allows him to work during the winter, so that he can continue his introspectiive creative process during the cold months too.
The place is very basic – working, sleeping, cooking, all in one room; yet it's these modest and in some ways rudimentary parameters that allow Loeffler to make sincere and honest music, concentraing on just the essentials. 'Mare' is his second studio album and follows in a similar vein to his self-released debut, 2012's 'A Forest'. However a key difference is that while his first album was heavily sample-based, 'Mare' is much more organic, in which nearly every sound and every instrument is self-recorded. Many of the album's ideas are based on field-recordings taken from the surroundings.
On top of this, several microphones were set up in the room ad left to run on for whole sessions. The microphones collected everything, from tapping, singing, playing, footsteps, as well as percussive elements added on the fly such as bottles, sticks, a set of keys, or basically anything that was lying around. Sometimes he would open the sliding patio doors, where sounds from outside would blend into the mix. Among the instruments placed around the table were an old marimba, a mandolin zither, some self-modified synthesizers, and various other sound tools accumulated from his travels. There are also four tracks that feature the vocals of previous collaborator Mohna ('Haul', 'Mare', 'Vind', 'Wilderness').
For Loeffler, another interesting aspect of the album is that it's the first time he himself sings on a record ('Lid', 'Pacific', 'Nil'). „The meaning was not intended to be essentially different to 'A Forest' but where the first album sometimes still felt to just be on the surface of what I can say with this project, it now feels like that I've come closer to the core of what I want to express.“ The instrumentation, the setting, and the process, make 'Mare' a highly individual body of work that sees him expanding the limits of his set-up.
The LP features the highly emotive sound that Loeffler's become known for, using deep house as a stylistic framework with which to base his tracks. Exploring spaces of emotional and physical loss, getting lost, as well as arriving, he blends wistful melodies, drum machines, and found sound into a wandering, melancholic mélange.
In the centre of the room is a huge oak table, splotched with multicoloured oil paints, surrounded by canvases, cameras tripods, tools, brushes. There's a great view of the sea, and the wide patio windows allow the light to flood inside, casting shadows of the leaves and branches across the walls and onto the table. There's a small fireplace which allows him to work during the winter, so that he can continue his introspectiive creative process during the cold months too.
The place is very basic – working, sleeping, cooking, all in one room; yet it's these modest and in some ways rudimentary parameters that allow Loeffler to make sincere and honest music, concentraing on just the essentials. 'Mare' is his second studio album and follows in a similar vein to his self-released debut, 2012's 'A Forest'. However a key difference is that while his first album was heavily sample-based, 'Mare' is much more organic, in which nearly every sound and every instrument is self-recorded. Many of the album's ideas are based on field-recordings taken from the surroundings.
On top of this, several microphones were set up in the room ad left to run on for whole sessions. The microphones collected everything, from tapping, singing, playing, footsteps, as well as percussive elements added on the fly such as bottles, sticks, a set of keys, or basically anything that was lying around. Sometimes he would open the sliding patio doors, where sounds from outside would blend into the mix. Among the instruments placed around the table were an old marimba, a mandolin zither, some self-modified synthesizers, and various other sound tools accumulated from his travels. There are also four tracks that feature the vocals of previous collaborator Mohna ('Haul', 'Mare', 'Vind', 'Wilderness').
For Loeffler, another interesting aspect of the album is that it's the first time he himself sings on a record ('Lid', 'Pacific', 'Nil'). „The meaning was not intended to be essentially different to 'A Forest' but where the first album sometimes still felt to just be on the surface of what I can say with this project, it now feels like that I've come closer to the core of what I want to express.“ The instrumentation, the setting, and the process, make 'Mare' a highly individual body of work that sees him expanding the limits of his set-up.
The LP features the highly emotive sound that Loeffler's become known for, using deep house as a stylistic framework with which to base his tracks. Exploring spaces of emotional and physical loss, getting lost, as well as arriving, he blends wistful melodies, drum machines, and found sound into a wandering, melancholic mélange.
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released October 7, 2016
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Christian Löffler Graal Müritz, Germany
Being asked to describe his own music, CHRISTIAN LOEFFLER states that he tries to combine melancholy with
euphoria.
„All my music is connected by a gloomy spirit, which is minted by a warm sincerity. I try to merge all kinds of different acoustic colors to obtain this feeling in my music.”
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Jan 24Madrid, Spain
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Jan 31Baden-Baden, Germany
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Feb 2Berlin, Germany
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Feb 7Rome, Italy
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Feb 8Vienna, Austria
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Feb 9Erlangen, Germany
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Feb 10Utrecht, Netherlands
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Feb 11London, UK
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Feb 17Brussels, Belgium
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Feb 18Hamburg, Germany
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Feb 19Munich, Germany
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Feb 20Prague, Czech Republic
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Feb 21Wrocław, Poland
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Feb 22Dresden, Germany
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Feb 23Uvita, Costa Rica
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Feb 26San Francisco, CA
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Mar 5Pioneertown, CA
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Mar 6Los Angeles (LA), CA
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Mar 7Seattle, WA
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Mar 8Denver, CO
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Mar 12Chicago, IL
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Mar 13Brooklyn, NY
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Mar 14Montreal, QC
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Mar 15Toronto, ON
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Mar 19Calgary, AB
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Mar 20Vancouver, BC
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Mar 22Victoria, BC
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Apr 7Heidelberg, Germany
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Apr 8Düsseldorf, Germany
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Apr 9Erfurt, Germany
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Apr 15Osnabrück, Germany
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Jun 6Schkeuditz, Germany
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Jun 7Idaho Springs, CO
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Jun 7Idaho Springs, CO
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Jun 12Wicklow, Ireland
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Jun 28St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Jul 9Merritt, BC
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Jul 11Merritt, BC
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