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… you can find the original article here

“On avait particulièrement apprécié le précédent album de Till Rohmann aka Glitterbug, Supershelter. Il en est de même pour ce nouvel opus qui s’ouvre sur une nappe très mélodieuse puis s’étire sur un rythme alangui qui charpente des ambiances bucoliques (“Swirl”). C’est la tonalité générale. Et manifestement, ses compositions sont beaucoup plus riches, plus sereines aussi. Moins “dub-atmospheric”… Privilege a été composé, nous dit-on, au gré de la tournée 2009 qui a mené Till Rohmann de Cologne, en Allemagne, où il demeure, à travers toute l’Europe et même en Inde, en Israël et en Chine. Sans verser dans le field-recording, il aurait, nous apprend-on encore, mêlé certains ingrédients sonores issus de ce long périple à certains de ses morceaux. Pas évident, cela dit, de déceler des éléments “exogènes” sur ce double-CD qui baigne dans une quiétude rassurante, porté par des lignes mélodiques enveloppantes et des rythmiques mid-tempo; entre pop-ambient à la Kompakt, electronic-groove aux rondeurs parfois dubbisantes et minimal-techno sans excès.”

Our dear friends from 44100hz – Electronic Music in Russia posted a news item on my upcoming album, also announcing our upcoming show in Moscow at the MIGZ festival on the 26th of June 2010.

You can find the original post here, or read the russian text bellow.

Немецкий техно-продюсер Glitterbug выпускает 17 мая на лейбле Kompakt новый альбом Privilege. На двойном CD уместились 20 композиций, общей продолжительностью 2 часа 20 минут. Также альбом выйдет в виниловом формате, включая бонусный трек.

Privilege записывался в личной студии музыканта в Кельне, а также во время тура в прошлом году: по городам Индии, Израиля, Европы, Китая. В некоторых треках появляются звуки, записанные на природе в местах путешествий.

«Privilege – альбом о том, что мечты позволяют тебе избавиться от ощущения ущербности в мире людей с разными возможностями. За последний год мне посчастливилось побывать во многих местах, благодаря чему я понял, какой я богач и как много я могу. Печально осознавать, что преобладающая часть человечества никогда даже не задумается о том, на что они могли бы быть способны», – комментирует релиз Glitterbug.

Добавим, что к CD-версии альбома прилагается специальный буклет израильского видео-художника, фотографа и партнера Glitterbug по живым выступлениям Ronni Shendar.

26 июня дуэт можно будет услышать на фестивале MIGZ в Москве.

Накануне релиза на один из треков с альбома – Сalcutta – был снят клип, который мы предлагаем для просмотра.

It’s sometimes a little strange to look at the references music journalists choose to describe my music (well, I learned a lot about music history that I wasn’t aware of while reading all the comparisons that were made between my previous album ‘Supershelter’ and x,y and z, that I never heard before), or, like in this review, which HUGE albums they use to model alongside with my upcoming album, just to notice that it might just not be that great as the original. In this case: Aphex Twin’s “Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2″. I mean, come on. First of all I can’t find that many parallels in our music, but secondly- almost everything looks pale to that hell of a massive album. But never mind, he does have some very nice and charming things to say about my music, after getting over the shock of that comparison… (only one last complaint: please, NEVER use the term ‘Mantra’ again to describe my music!!!). But read for yourself!

You can find the original post here.

“Till Rohmann’s 2010 album under his Glitterbug name is nothing if not ambitious — a full-to-the-brim two-CD release, described by him in the liner notes as inspired by both his worldwide travels due to his musical success and his reflection on how that’s a chance few people get to enjoy. Sentiments aside, does Privilege succeed in its own right? It may not be a Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2, say, and the danger of any truly long release lies in the potential of wearing out its welcome early. But Privilege does work at its best as loosely flowing travelogue, an understated progression that starts calmly with “Lionheart” and builds a calm propulsion as it goes. The Glitterbug approach of ambient loops and understated rhythms is both familiar and possessed of its own character, almost a gentle trust in letting each core melody or rhythm become something close to a mantra. Even when the beats gain in volume, as on “After All,” the effect is of serenity thanks to the arrangement of simple, entrancing tones.” Ned Raggett

Considering the wide selection of music that the Intro magazine is covering, i was pretty stunned to see that ‘Privilege’ made it to place 11 of the Intro charts. Wow. Lucky me, lucky ‘Privilege’!!!

This is a recording of me playing live @ the legendary Total Confusion in Cologne (I played the show together with visual artist Ronni Shendar, but sadly we did not video tape this specific show). What an amazing night we had! The Track after the little break in the end was an encore we had to play. The set consists of mostly new tracks from the upcoming album, ‘Privilege’, one track from my last EP on c.sides, the ‘Dim Flares EP’, and there are two tracks from my previous album, ‘Supershelter’.

The set was recorded as-is, stereo out from my little sub mixer, that’s it. No post-editing was done.

Glitterbug live @ total confusion // april 2010 by Glitterbug

Privilege consists of 20 tracks and 1 vinyl bonus track, and has a total play time of 2 hours and 20 minutes. Below are 4 selected tracks from the project:

Glitterbug – Swirl

Glitterbug – Blue Rifts

Glitterbug – After All

Glitterbug – Parted

(You can find the original post here)

“Am 17. Mai erscheint mit Privilege das 2. Album von Glitterbug, einem der großen Romantiker des Technouniversums. Glitterbug alias Till Rohmann pendelt zwischen Köln und Tel Aviv und ist Produzent, DJ, Veranstalter und Labelbesitzer.
Das Doppelalbum Privilege hört sich als Dokumentation der globalen Technoszene. So verarbeitet er dort Impressionen und Field Recordings seiner letzten Welttournee. Nach Supershelter in 2008 und diversen 12″ gibt es nun endlich mehr von seinen verträumten Kompositionen.

Hier ein Ausblick auf das kommende Album inklusive Video der israelischen Videokünstlerin Ronnie Shendar, mit der er das c.sides Festival in Tel Aviv organisiert.”

…and it’s soooo incredibly beautiful. Make sure to watch it in HD and full screen mode!!! It’s so totally worth it!!!

Glitterbug – Calcutta from Ronni Shendar on Vimeo.

… taken by Ronni Shendar:

And for our joint live shows, with Ronni in the frame:

Hurray! It’s done! After hours and hours of HTMLing (which i haven’t done in a while), I hereby proudly announce the new micro site for my upcoming album ‘Privilege’.

You can find the microsite under www.privilege.csides.net