Published
Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 09:00
- Second Yard Botanicals is out on Apollo Records in August.
Paul Frick, the German artist best known as part of the group Brandt Brauer Frick, is putting out a solo album through Apollo Records.
After some two decades immersed in music, Second Yard Botanicals will be Frick's first solo full-length record, though it only took him about two months to complete. The project involved a wide range of acoustic and electronic sound sources, including live instrumentation (from himself and others) and his own collection of live and field recordings. He put it together at Brandt Brauer Frick's shared studio space in Neukölln, Berlin, with bandmate Jan Brauer handling the mixing.
Apollo says the album is "highly eclectic" genre-wise, as it shows Frick "drawing on the world around him in a free associative style." The artist himself puts it this way: "A word I sometimes had in mind was Alltagspoesie, the poetry of everyday life. The thought that however small and unimportant things and people are, they—or we—all hint towards each other, if not to say towards the whole. The fact that half of the pieces on the record are short miniatures has to do with that. Throwing something in and hearing what it tells."
Listen to a track from the album, "Karamasow."
Tracklist
A1 Gramma And Gregor
A2 Great Song Title 9
A3 Allergy Boy
A4 Unterschrieben Und Ärger
A5 Church 5 Loop 2
A6 Baby Bell
A7 Bankhaus August Lenz
A8 Neo Biedermeier
B1 3000 Euro
B2 FFO Dorsch
B3 Karamasow
B4 Schöneberg
B5 Gotzkowsky Ecke Turm
Apollo will release Second Yard Botanicals on August 3rd, 2018.
Photo credit: Yvonne Schmedemann
