glitterbug

I usually don’t necessarily post my releases that appear somewhere in some online shop, but I really liked that these guys made the effort to write something nice! You can find the item here (and hey, if you are in the UK, thay give you a Notown sampler for free of you order my album!!!)

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“It’s not by chance that Dust is being released on Gold Panda’s label,” says Till Rohmann, aka Glitterbug. Following his 2012 LP Cancerboy – a breathtaking release dealing with the producer’s childhood battle with cancer – Rohmann returns with his fourth record, and first on Chelmsford-based producer’s NOTOWN Recordings. Dust is, he explains, a record in-part inspired by Derwin’s brilliant metropolis-evoking, travelling-influenced second LP, Half Of Where You Live.

“It picks up the pieces from that record’s celebration of modern urbanity and manmade things,” Rohmann says. “Dust takes this notion a step further and explores the urban shadows of the forgotten, the stories of our cities that remain untold, past landscapes that evaporated and memories left behind over time. It’s about memories, traces of things and people that were, urban sub texts and long gone landscapes and the life that inhibited these places.”

Glitterbug’s moniker comes from the Derek Jarman-directed film of the same name – a deeply personal work that spanned over two decades of the film maker’s life, with a soundtrack written by Brian Eno. A cinematic influence to his music is something ingrained within Rohmann, not least because his partner, Israeli visual artist Ronni Shendar, has been putting imagery to his music for more than a decade. “There was certainly pictures running through my head when creating Dust,” Rohmann says. “It’s hard to put that particular vision into words – but I guess I’d have become a writer if that were the case.”

Glitterbug perhaps differs from one of his idols, Eno, in that it’s not the process that speaks to him loudest; instead it’s the challenge of imbuing the electronically put-together finished product with the most human touch possible. “I still remember being 16 and first hearing Meredith Monk’s Dolmen Music,” he recalls. “I started crying because I found music that touched me so deeply and that I felt so connected to.” Glitterbug now seeks the same, and in Dust’s mixture of light and dark textures, brisk motifs and weightier drones, he might just have achieved it.

Thanks for the nice words!!! You can find the original article here.

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Nach “Cancerboy” nun “Dust”: Der Produzent und Kurator Glitterbug kehrt im Mai mit seinem neuen Album zurück. Die LP auf dem Label von Gold Panda steht nicht nur zu seiner Deep-Techno-Passion, sondern amtet eine hohe Emotionalität zwischen atmosphärischen Flächen und Patterns.

Dem Komponisten, Produzenten und DJ Glitterbug kann nun wirklich niemand unterstellen, sich auf die faule Haut zu legen. Ob deeper Techno, Remix-Arbeiten, experimentelle Musik oder Kompositionen für Film oder audio-visuelle Installationen – Glitterbug spricht seit Jahren eine ganz individuelle Sprache, die vor allen Dingen von seiner schwebenden Atmosphäre, den emotionalen Patterns und Referenzlosigkeit geprägt ist.

Am 12. Mai erscheint das nunmehr vierte Album von Till Rohman, so sein gebürtiger Name. “Dust”, so heißt es im Presse-Sheet, “blättert sich um wie die Seiten eines Buchs, besucht Menschen und Orte, reist über Kontinente und ist scheinbar losgelöst von der Gegenwart, während die einzelnen Tracks dennoch miteinander verbunden bleiben und sich immer wieder aufeinander beziehen. Jeder Track erkundet einen neuen Ort mit nahezu physischer Präsenz, so spezifisch, das man nahezu den Winkel der Sonne oder den Wind im Gesicht spüren kann.”

Als Überraschung darf durchaus die Plattform gesehen werden, denn “Dust” erscheint auf NOTOWN Recordings, dem noch jungen Label von Gold Panda. Kennengelernt auf einem Festival greift Glitterbug die Fäden auf, die Gold Panda mit seinem letzten Album “Half Of Where You Live” freilegte. Seine langjährige Zusammenarbeit mit der israelischen Videokünstlerin und Fotografin Ronni Shendar (die auch für das komplette Artwork seiner Releases verantwortlich ist) ergänzt seine Liveauftritte um eine atemberaubende visuelle Komponente. Zusammen kreieren sie eine cineastische, umfassende und aufwühlende Erfahrung.

It has been pretty quiet over here. Actually, I buried myself in my new studio in Berlin and only alowed myself to crawl out again once this album was finished… (and I am only slightly exaggerating here).

It’ll be out on Gold Panda‘s Notown Recordings and our own precious little c.sides Label.

It’ll be released as 2×12”, CD and digitally.

More to be shared sooooooon!!!

From the press text:

Dust, Glitterbug’s fourth studio album, sees the artist and producer continue his path of exploring musical frontiers beyond the beaten tracks of current electronic dance music.

Dust is an album about hidden remains and traces. It follows things and people that were, past lives and stories that silently echo through deserts fields, overgrown forests, urban decay, and our homes, staircases and attics.

It’s not by chance that ‘Dust’ is released on Gold Panda’s NOTOWN Recordings label. Not only is there a loving friendship and previous collaborations between the two, but ‘Dust’ also picks up the pieces where Gold Panda left off with “Half Of Where You Live” that celebrated modern urbanity and man made things.

Glitterbug’s ‘Dust’ takes this notion a step further and explores the urban shadows of the forgotten, the stories of our cities that remain untold, past landscapes that evaporated and memories left behind over time.

If Glitterbug is known for his dense, extended, autobiographical journeys, this album turns like pages of a story book, visiting different people and places, traveling across continents and beyond time, intertwined and interconnected.
Glitterbug carries his renowned visual language with each track exploring an almost perceptible location, so specific you can tell the hour by the sun’s angle, and feel the wind hit your face carrying a particular smell. It’s a travelogue of the ghosts and spirits that never had a chance to come back.

On Tuesday, 29th of January in Tel Aviv at the Deli:
at 8pm I will give a little lecture with some examples of my own music and share some of the stories behind them and the music and art that has inspired me personally and professionally. It might get interesting, especially if you wonder what my non-techno influences might be!

Starting 11pm I will play some records with dearest Anna and Sousanna of Pacotek, and I would be delighted to see my dear Tel Aviv friends there!!

More info on the Facebook Event Page.

Fill those sad empty gaps in your Glitterbug collection, or replace those shitty sounding illegit torrent downloads with lossless formats: for 7 days only, we lowered the prices on vinyl, cd and digital (for full albums) up to 50% on Glitterbugs Bandcamp page. Some of the items are almost sold out, so be quick! Happy glittery holidays everyone.

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You can buy my releases pretty much anywhere around the web (incl. iTunes, Beatport, WhatPeoplePlay, ZeroInch, Juno etc.), or, of course, in your local record shop. But, if you want to support me and our label directly, you can get pretty much all my releases on my Bandcamp page!

The video for ‘Passages’, taken from Glitterbug’s new album, ‘Cancerboy’, embarks on a twilight journey through a foggy, gloomy scenery. Rusty ships and doomed freighters appear from the horizon as if from a different time or place, abandoned and absent. It’s a place of the subconscious, a world suspended.

Glitterbug’s new album ‘Cancerboy’ examines and challenges the place between hope and death, and Ronni Shendar’s video follows him to this dreamlike place, where memories of lost friends seem to live on, close yet untouchable; a passage of in-between.

Ronni Shendar is an Israeli visual artist, working in the field of photography, video and live video performance. Her works have been presented in exhibitions and festivals internationally, among them Festival de Cannes and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, and toured with Gold Panda (Ghostly) with her visuals and stage design.

Shendar and Glitterbug (Till Rohmann) have been collaborating for almost 10 years as curators, producers and artists whose work spans from video installations to their celebrated audio-visual live performance.

I did a radio interview for the German public radio station MDR Sputnik, which was aired last Wednesday, April 25th, 2012. More info about the show here. It’s obviously in German, and I got to tell a few of the stories behind the tracks. Thanks Gesine Kuehne for the nice interview!

You can also listen to the podcast by clicking here.

Two weeks prior to the release of my next album ‘Cancerboy’ I wanted to share a few bits and pieces with you.

First of all- take a look at the microsite of the album!

I also just uploaded a first track for streaming on my SoundCloud profile:

My most favorite video artist, Ronni Shendar, created an amazingly beautiful and touching video for this track. Check out the preview, the full video will be released soon.

If you were wondering how to find those Glitterbug tracks in lossless quality or how to order vinyl while still getting the files in any format you ever wanted, incl. all those wonderful audiophile HQ, lossless files, look no further! My Bandcamp site is up and running, and you can order directly from there, both the digital and the physical goods.

If you want your money to go to the artist directly, I believe that there’s no better way on the web at the moment.

Here’s my latest release: