ULRICH SCHNAUSS - "NOW IS A TIMELESS PRESENT - A RETROSPECTIVE"
hello hallo,
close to the end of 2019 a substantial part of what i've been preparing over the last 2 years is finally ready for release and i have to say: feeling truly relieved - especially concerning a certain 'retrospective box set'... ;-)
a few words on what lead to a situation in which the now imminent release is occurring more than a year later than initially planned:
first of all and that's the way it inevitably goes i guess - transitioning from travelling to doing stuff in the studio back and forth did somehow seem to go a little more smoothly in my 20s...
it's my deficient time management skills which are primarily to blame as far as 'missing deadlines' here is concerned though - at least it's a familiar flaw and not something i'm forced to attribute to increasing age.
in the beginning i was simply excited to be given the opportunity to work on a project like this - not only because it provides an opportunity to wander through the archives, hoping to find one or another worthwhile piece of music that didn't make it onto a release back in the day,
i also saw it as a chance to present 2 albums which sonically suffered from health problems at the time in the way how, in hindsight, i wish they would've appeared initially:
2013's 'a long way to fall' and its follow up 'no further ahead than today'.
it did take a while until i began to realize that re-mixing, sometimes re-recording these albums pretty much from scratch was growing into a profoundly challenging task - especially in the case of 'a long way to fall':
since i was aware even at the time that something 'wasn't quite right', i unfortunately tried to compensate for, as an example, struggling to achieve a suitable mid-range presence by simply layering 3 more elements on top - resulting in arrangements which often had a track count way beyond of what would've been sensible... :-/
looking at the brighter side: to the kind listeners who've retained an interest in my music throughout the years, the box set now not only offers remastered yet faithful and expanded reissues of those first 3 albums 'far away trains', 'isolated place' and 'goodbye' -
but also new and hopefully rewarding perspectives on 'a long way to fall' and 'no further ahead than today'.
any additional interesting bits and pieces from the last 20 years which seemed to benefit from being given their own separate space will appear as part of a selection sharing its name with the box as a whole: 'now is a timeless present'.
furthermore, this seems a good opportunity to put emphasis on the cover design nat urazmetova created (see below) - while i'm usually tying to avoid advertising releases in a too bold manner, i just have to say that i consider this to be one of the most inspiring and inspired artworks my music's been associated with.
some will remember the days when record labels and musicians were concerned about pre-release leaks - nowadays it's all a bit different once again and therefore 'now is a timeless present' will appear first in digital form on december 6 - with the physical box to follow on january 24.
i hope it'll be an enjoyable experience to join me hiking through the last 20 years - and do not want to forget to add that i'm grateful that there still seem plenty of promising paths ahead.
dankeschön and all the very best, Ulrich Schnauss
1.01 Ulrich Schnauss - Knuddelmaus (2019 remaster) (7:03)
1.02 Ulrich Schnauss - Between Us And Them (2019 remaster) (7:39)
1.03 Ulrich Schnauss - Passing By (2019 remaster) (6:38)
1.04 Ulrich Schnauss - Blumenwiese Neben Autobahn (2019 remaster) (6:37)
1.05 Ulrich Schnauss - Nobody's Home (2019 remaster) (7:41)
1.06 Ulrich Schnauss - Molfsee (2019 remaster) (8:11)
2.01 Ulrich Schnauss - Brooks Was Here (2019 remaster) (7:09)
2.02 Ulrich Schnauss - Sunday Evening In Your Street (2019 remaster) (6:54)
2.03 Ulrich Schnauss - Suddenly The Trees Are Giving Way (2019 remaster) (6:21)
2.04 Ulrich Schnauss - A Lie For Breakfast (2019 remaster) (6:09)
2.05 Ulrich Schnauss - Nothing Happens In June (2019 remaster) (6:20)
2.06 Ulrich Schnauss - As If You've Never Been Away (2019 remaster) (7:04)
2.07 Ulrich Schnauss - A Million Miles Away (2019 remaster) (7:15)
2.08 Ulrich Schnauss - Crazy For You (2019 remaster) (6:57)
2.09 Ulrich Schnauss - Wherever You Are (2019 remaster) (7:14)
3.01 Ulrich Schnauss - Gone Forever (2019 remaster) (8:21)
3.02 Ulrich Schnauss - On My Own (2019 remaster) (6:40)
3.03 Ulrich Schnauss - A Letter From Home (2019 remaster) (7:04)
3.04 Ulrich Schnauss - Monday - Paracetamol (2019 remaster) (8:01)
3.05 Ulrich Schnauss - Clear Day (2019 remaster) (7:41)
3.06 Ulrich Schnauss - Blumenthal (2019 remaster) (6:51)
3.07 Ulrich Schnauss - In All The Wrong Places (2019 remaster) (7:18)
3.08 Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place (2019 remaster) (10:44)
4.01 Ulrich Schnauss - Never Be The Same (2019 remaster) (5:31)
4.02 Ulrich Schnauss - Shine (2019 remaster) (5:49)
4.03 Ulrich Schnauss - Stars (2019 remaster) (6:19)
4.04 Ulrich Schnauss - Einfeld (2019 remaster) (5:28)
4.05 Ulrich Schnauss - Here Today Gone Tomorrow (2019 remaster) (5:05)
4.06 Ulrich Schnauss - A Song For Hope (2019 remaster) (5:55)
4.07 Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa (2019 remaster) (6:25)
4.08 Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye (2019 remaster) (7:54)
4.09 Ulrich Schnauss - In Between The Years (2019 remaster) (3:52)
4.10 Ulrich Schnauss - Love Forever (2019 remaster) (5:57)
4.11 Ulrich Schnauss - Look At The Sky (2019 remaster) (4:33)
4.12 Ulrich Schnauss - For Good (2019 remaster) (3:41)
5.01 Ulrich Schnauss - Her And The Sea (2019 Version) (5:05)
5.02 Ulrich Schnauss - Broken Homes (2019 Version) (7:37)
5.03 Ulrich Schnauss - Like A Ghost In Your Own Life (2019 Version) (6:09)
5.04 Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way To Fall (2019 Version) (8:05)
5.05 Ulrich Schnauss - I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance (2019 Version) (5:57)
5.06 Ulrich Schnauss - A Forgotten Birthday (2019 Version) (7:20)
5.07 Ulrich Schnauss - The Weight Of Darkening Skies (2019 Version) (5:26)
5.08 Ulrich Schnauss - Borrowed Time (2019 Version) (5:04)
5.09 Ulrich Schnauss - Ten Years (2019 Version) (6:09)
5.10 Ulrich Schnauss - A Ritual In Time And Death (2019 Version) (7:44)
6.01 Ulrich Schnauss - Melts Into Air (2019 Version) (6:27)
6.02 Ulrich Schnauss - Love Grows Out Of Thin Air (2019 Version) (5:29)
6.03 Ulrich Schnauss - The Magic In You (2019 Version) (5:43)
6.04 Ulrich Schnauss - Thoughtless Motion (2019 Version) (5:25)
6.05 Ulrich Schnauss - No Further Ahead Than Today (2019 Version) (6:05)
6.06 Ulrich Schnauss - Wait For Me (2019 Version) (5:08)
6.07 Ulrich Schnauss - New Day Starts At Dawn (2019 Version) (5:19)
6.08 Ulrich Schnauss - Water Under The Bridge (2019 Version) (5:12)
6.09 Ulrich Schnauss - Negative Sunrise (2019 Version) (4:36)
6.10 Ulrich Schnauss - Illusory Sun (2019 Version) (5:30)
7.01 Ulrich Schnauss - First Bridge (2003) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (0:46)
7.02 Ulrich Schnauss - Attraktor 1 (2000) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (4:24)
7.03 Ulrich Schnauss - Attraktor 2 (2000) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (6:29)
7.04 Ulrich Schnauss - Attraktor 3 (2000) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (6:16)
7.05 Ulrich Schnauss - Stars (Demo 2004) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (5:33)
7.06 Ulrich Schnauss - Memory Lane (2003) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (5:27)
7.07 Ulrich Schnauss - Einfeld (Demo 2005) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (5:47)
7.08 Ulrich Schnauss - Second Bridge (2003) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (0:34)
7.09 Ulrich Schnauss - It's Raining Today (2008) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (4:56)
7.10 Ulrich Schnauss - Third Bridge (2003) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (1:27)
7.11 Ulrich Schnauss - Today's Hopes Gone Tomorrow (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (7:26)
7.12 Ulrich Schnauss - Ein Feld Für Ecki (2017) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (6:36)
7.13 Ulrich Schnauss - Fourth Bridge (2003) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (1:40)
7.14 Ulrich Schnauss - Shine (Longview Version 2008) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (5:18)
7.15 Ulrich Schnauss - Fifth Bridge (2003) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (1:23)
7.16 Ulrich Schnauss - Prelude And Fugue No 1 In C Major (2016) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (4:46)
7.17 Ulrich Schnauss - Last Bridge (2003) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (1:54)
7.18 Ulrich Schnauss - Surrender Bittersweet (2018) (Remixed - Re-Recorded 2019) (5:54)
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