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phon°noir

NEW ALBUM coming up // streetdate: november 9

About Me


THE OBJECTS DON'T NEED US (CD SR258, sub rosa, november 9 2007)
you can pre-order the album on amazon.de (click HERE)
01 the figurines are moving
02 a different kind of january
03 you are the eskimo
04 invisible at last
05 climbing up that hill
06 sing through the wires
07 my paperhouse on fire
08 we still miss the future
09 as seen at the end of the mechanical age
10 the objects don't need us
11 gullholmen
MY PAPERHOUSE ON FIRE [music video]
taken from THE OBJECTS DON'T NEED US (CD SR258)
directed by sebastian haslauer & sebastian koch.
PUTTING HOLES INTO OCTOBER SKIES (CD QS162, quatermass 2006)
purchase links:
[uk] posteverything.com
[deutschland] amazon
[france] orkhestra
[us] amazon
[france] fnac music (mp3)
[world] itunes (mp3)
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Member Since: 1/10/2006
Band Website: phononoir.de
Band Members: PHON°NOIR is matthias grübel playing guitars, bass, piano, synths and found objects, programming and singing - arranging all of it into layered loops and athmospheric buildings.

Influences: life. sounds. noises. childhood. headphones. science of sleep. scandinavia. cities. surrealism. coincidence. the beatles. leonard cohen. fennesz. cocorosie. four tet. sigur ros. madrugada. radiohead. kraftwerk. the notwist. oasis. mountains. john coltrane. volcano!. pierre-yves macé. mandelbrot set. colleen. téléfax. nico. einstürzende neubauten. johnny greenwood. uzi & ari. sj5. thom yorke. e.s.t. ultre. calika. transatlanticism. sinnbus records. deine lakaien. david shea. david lynch. jörg albrecht. shake your tree. andreas neumeister. antonin artaud.

Sounds Like: "imagine the solitary singer hunched over a beat-up acoustic guitar beneath a highway overpass with a rack of digital processors at his feet. As he strums through his wounded songs, a mic routes localized noises through the bank of filters and turns this industrialized junk into scattered glitch accompaniment." (igloo magazine / 0506)
"Coming across like a soundtrack to an absolutely bleak fall or winter day, Phon°noir definitely isn't typical electronic pop, and the oft-fragile disc injects some new life into the genre with a unique style." (almostcool.org)
"und plötzlich ist die häuserschlucht gar nicht mehr so grau. bewegende musik." (de:bug / 0406)
"phon°noir joue ainsi des genres de chansons folk arrangées à base de synthés ténébreux, de guitares laconiques et de silences appuyés (le très beau, très lent et très contagieux Slowdown) – une des chansons s’appelle Hymn for Silence et même lui rase les murs sur ces ballades crépusculaires, à la beauté glaçante – même quand une rythmique est ici assurée par un rot en boucle." (lesinrocks.com / 0107)
"...illustriert mit in dieser dichte und eleganz selten gehörten klanglandschaften perfekt den unterschied zwischen zeitlupe und aller zeit der welt." (spex / 0406)
"...echte intimität und nähe. toll!" (spex / 0606)
"es ist ein wenig kälter geworden und der wind macht die ohren der hübschen mädchen rot. man baut burgen aus schals und stapft durch blätter und kleine zweige, die unter den stiefeln ganz aufgeregt knistern, klackern und zischeln. weil der atem so schöne wolken zeichnet, singt matthias mit dunkler stimme eine zerbrechliche herbstmelodie. [...] dank phon°noir darf man sich guten gewissens bereits im frühjahr wieder auf den oktober freuen." (spiesser / 0407)
"phon°noir geht den entscheidenden schritt, den viele songwriter nicht wagen, und gibt der elektronik raum: manchmal ist sie lauter als der gesang und die gitarre und fegt ein wenig darüber hinweg oder das, was man an analogen sachen zuweilen nicht will, einfach hinaus - und klingt trotzdem ordentlich geerdet. das ist gut. sehr gut sogar." (jazzthetik / 0506)
"ein melancholisches album, das fragen stellt, zarte hoffnungen weckt und vorsichtig auf der suche nach den schlüsseln des lebens ist." (partysan / 0406)
"tragisch schön, auch wenn der oktober schon längst verstrichen ist." (sonic seducer / 0606)

Record Label: www.subrosa.net

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

sub rosa // the new album

let me briefly introduce my new musical home. as you know by now the new phon°noir album will be out on sub rosa, mother of the old phon°noir label quatermass. sub rosa has a slightly more experimenta...
Posted by phon°noir on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:36:00 PST

a new record by calika

please let me draw your attention to the work of one of my friends: simon kealoha aka CALIKA is a uk-based experimental electronic musician, who also worked with me on one track of the upcoming a...
Posted by phon°noir on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:46:00 PST

album pre-order on amazon.de

...the upcoming album THE OBJECTS DON'T NEED US can already be pre-ordered from amazon.de... we hope the same will be the case for other countries soon. http://www.amazon.de/Objects-Dont-Nee...
Posted by phon°noir on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:22:00 PST

new album // release

...now everything is sorted out. in fact the new phon°noir album will not appear on quatermass, instead it will be released on the quatermass motherlabel SUBROSA, also brussels-based. www.subrosa.net ...
Posted by phon°noir on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:23:00 PST

NEW music video...

...proud and happy to announce the myspace debut of the lovely new phon°noir music video. the song MY PAERHOUSE ON FIRE is taken from the upcoming record and features marie-sophie kanske from transatl...
Posted by phon°noir on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:35:00 PST

we still miss the future

...is another new song from the forthcoming album. it features enchanting vocal parts by the lovely anna-lynne williams from trespassers william, a band from seattle you should definetely check o...
Posted by phon°noir on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:07:00 PST

sound-guerilla @ bachmannpreis

phonofix news: click the link below to watch the tv recording of jörg albrechts reading at bachmannpreis 2007, including live-sound-guerilla by phon°noir. live at orf-theater klagenfurt, austria, 28. ...
Posted by phon°noir on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:05:00 PST

phon°noir interview: listen online on myspace

last week's interview with scottish RADIO FRESHAIR (program GERMAN LICKS) is now avalailable in full length (about 15 minutes) to listen online on the host's myspace... just go to www.myspace.com/germ...
Posted by phon°noir on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:30:00 PST

enfin: distribution en france!

...enfin, le premier album de phon°noir est officiellement disponible en france. je sais que c'était en vente sur les sites d'amzon.fr et de la fnac, mais seulement comme importation. donc les nouvell...
Posted by phon°noir on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:29:00 PST

phon°noir debut cd on amazon

...i heard some people had trouble finding PUTTING HOLES INTO OCTOBER SKIES on amazon. that might be due to the ° in phon°noir, a never-ending story... (yet i still don't consider re-naming the projec...
Posted by phon°noir on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:43:00 PST