robert lippok : falling into komëit
monika 37 cd /lp on lok

hear his version of i can tell.mp3

full album download available at FINETUNES.NET


robert lippok : falling into komëit
Robert Lippok’s „Falling into Komëit“ might be called a remix-album but it is rather a tribute. The idea of reinterpreting Komëit’s full-length album „Falling into Place“ (m25) settled when he – among others – participated in a remix 12“ („Falling back together“) to the album.
Now, almost two years since, he has realized his idea and finished „Falling into Komëit“. The album is a very simple, very personal way of paying credit to Komëit’s universe of tender and fragile, minimalistic songs. Robert Lippok has been very careful not to destroy or to boldly paint over the distinctive structure of the songs but to keep their character and still to create something new that carries along his idea of music in general and Komëit’s music in particular.
This album is also about passion. It is about music as a passion, which is able to express emotions, thoughts and dreams, and about the many different ways and materials that make this expression possible.
And above all it is about a very classical and beautiful understanding of music (which might have gone lost a little within the context of a very fast and somehow superficial pop industry) that saves music from transitoriness: This is the idea of music as a language that is passed on, getting supplemented and thereby growing in its ability to actually describe what you want to express. It is thus similar to fairy tales and myths that constantly change in the process of narration but never actually lose their original meaning.
And this – ladies and gentlemen – is of course the main idea of Monika Enterprise as a label, too.
Fee Magdanz

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Julia Kliemann + Chris Flor

Falling into place? This is where it all comes together.

Just before Quiet is the new Loud reared its tentative head in 1999 Julia Kliemann (vocals, sine keyboard) and Chris Flor (vocals, guitar) began to gauge the boundaries of calm fragility with their reduced tendercore: when early attempts at collaborations (skateboarding) didn’t work out, Chris decided to convince his fellow student Julia to join him for an improvised performance supporting songs:ohia instead.

Currently based between Vienna and Berlin and with a touch of open naivety and idealism about them Komëit’s simple stories and clear messages place them at the forefront of artists who are not afraid to expose their sounds and souls to the public – not in a shy, introverted way but via melancholically optimistic honesty.
Their consciously minimalist approach results in humane directness, in a concentrated clarity.

After the previous, intensely personal outpourings of which focussed on a dogma of conceptual purity, Falling Into Place allows a lot more space to electronica, piano and echoing guitars to fill the gaps with atmospheric warmth – "the last album was a lot more about emphasising the basic idea of a sound, of a melody or love song, this time we wanted to elaborate on this idea, to actually make the record we had in mind” Chris states.

Contemplative, romantic, heart-wrenching, slow, deliberately delayed and infused with their mutual musical past between Low, Codeine, Pastels and Brian Eno these two delicately interwoven voices almost hypnotically drag us into the intricate spheres of Komëit – Let’s Melt, as one of their songs seductively invites us to do!

On the remix collection Falling Back Together T. Raumschmiere, DJ DSL, Robert Lippok supply their very own view of this distilled quietude.
Sonja Commentz

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listen to "3hours" MP3 (edit)

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and see the "3hours" Video by Micz Flor

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robert lippok: falling into komëit
cd monika37 / lok vinyl