tracklist

01 deep purple
02 three in a box
03 vintage cakewalk
04 nectareous necklace
05 bones
06 empty bags in lonely pants
07 one dimension
08 one’s upon time
09 smoothing sooth
10 anthem
11 purple fiction

all tracks written, produced and mixed by me raabenstein.

guitars by major major on tracks 02, 03 & 08.

guitars by andreas koslik on tracks 09 & 11.

keyboards by volker meitz on tracks 04 & 11.

saxophone by andreas neugebauer on tracks 02, 07 & 10.

trombone by muwe langer on tracks 03 & 08.

mastered by frederic van de moortel, antwerp.

artwork by simonraabenstein.com

distributed by no.nine recordings.

what to answer to a person saying this? … ‚whoever flushes the toilet in the loosbar in vienna at 2 p.m. in a certain men’s restroom ends up in the swiss embassy in bangkok. the charming employees of the establishment in thailand may not necessarily appreciate it when one suddenly appears there without having asked for entry. after a calm but firm announcement, one is allowed to leave the building immediately. although traveling is so enlightening, i just don’t like it. i rather prefer experimenting with sounds and rhythms. traveling is enlightening but i prefer sound experiments‘.

like that’s a normal thing to say after describing plumbing-based teleportation. someone comfortable with a fairly baroque, absurdist sense of humor — willing to bury a punchline in a maze of bureaucratic detail, just as swiss embassy, charming employees, or a calm but firm announcement, just to get to the deadpan reversal at the end. that kind of construction takes patience and a taste for the surreal-mundane, not just a quick joke. the self-description part is interesting too: framing themselves as someone who finds travel enlightening but doesn’t actually like it, preferring instead to stay put and work with sound — it reads like someone using the outward, comic anecdote as a decoy for a fairly direct statement about their own preferences and temperament.

playful on the surface, a bit guarded or ironic underneath, you may sense the plot but whatever feelings will arise when you listen to me raabensteins fourth solo album – be aware …

enjoy the melody !!!

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