about morr music
a number of small things
[10/06] Not a big deal. A number of small things. Seven inches, 45 rpm. Two songs, sometimes three. Released on the most euphoric, the most direct of all formats that has ever been invented by pop music. Initially, it has been used in order to feed music boxes. In the times, when pop was still young. And each song meant to be a promise.
The beginning of A number of small things - the seven-inch-series of the morr music family - was a promise on loan: a wonderful song by the splendid band múm: "There's a number of small things". Now, these wonderful songs get more and more. What began with Bernhard Fleischmann's single "Nico" in 2003 grows and sounds and sounds and grows. In this case, single does not necessarily mean an outtake from an album.
The fewest of the anost-releases are taken directly from a morr music album or even the production process of a morr music album. They are independent short-stories. They tell about meetings of persons: The one of the Icelandic Benni Hemm Hemm with the Swede Jens Lekman, for instance. They both are entertainers of a reduced opulence (anost 016).
They tell of a passion for someone else's songs, for instance Masha Qrella allowing "Don't stop the dance" by Brian Ferry to shine - a little hit on the radio in autumn 2006 (anost 013). And John Yoko (aka Markus Acher and Valerie Trebeljahr) humming Smog's "The morning paper" in fragile beauty (anost 006). Or isan, the two British sound-seekers, permitting the piano miniatures by Eric Satie to oscillate (anost 007).
There is a length of five minutes, twice. There is not more time on a seven-inch left. If one goes about it well an eternity can become out of it. A big deal, a number of small things.
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morr music
One of Berlin's most influential and well-loved imprints, Morr music has had such an impact over the merging of electronic and Indie musical disciplines that many consider the label to have invented its own genre. It's impressive roster is certainly a testament to this fact - the likes of Lali Puna, Múm, Isan, Seabear, Tarwater, Opiate, Ms. John Soda, Tied & Tickled Trio, Electric President, Styrofoam, The Go Find, and B.Fleischmann making for an impeccable roster. With almost 100 Albums in its catalogue, Morr Music is a label that truly has something for everyone.
sound of a handshake
[07/06] The Sound of a Handshake, a soft, friendly noise. A handshake comes at the end of deals of those who part as friends. Shake your hands and say yeah, so to speak. A gesture of familiarity.
The Sound of a Handshake is Morr Music's little, curious sister. It will care for little, curious sound-carriers in the future. Care for the projects - not only from Morr Music - done on the side, in-between and in addition to others. Such as Benni Hemm Hemm, for instance, whose euphoric debut-album is the second release of The Sound of a Handshake, after its release by a small label in Iceland, Benni's home, in 2005. There is further Bernhard Fleischmann's "Melancholie", an one-hour lasting track, that was written on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
If Morr Music would not be everything but duty, one could name The Sound of a Handshake - equally as the go-getting seven-inch-series A Number of Small Things - a free-section. In the future there will be released projects from friends and family members, Morr Music artists, for whom a release out of the operative every-day-life will be useful. Such as licenses of sound-carriers that have been released in another corner of the world already (as Benni Hemm Hemm's debut album). Such as re-releases of the appreciated and the legendary. Or such as ideas and intuitions of well-known Morr-artists, a live-album of Masha Qrella perhaps, just to name one of the occurring ideas.
That makes curious, doesn't it? The Sound of a Handshake is worth keeping your ears wide open. I give you my hand on that.
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