Various Artists - Nils Frahm - Late Night Tales

Composer, musician and producer Nils Frahm steers the new edition of 'Late Night Tales'. A hypnotic voyage through modern and classical composition, experimental electronics, jazz, dub techno, soundtracks and soul; Frahm's Late Night Tales haunts and beguiles.

Many of the tracks have been edited, effected and re-made. The subtly overdubbed parts on Rhythm and Sound's 'Mango Drive' adding to the haunting hypnosis, while choral interruptions aid Miles Davis' 'Generique' on its journey towards the light. Meanwhile, on Boards Of Canada's 'In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country', the tempo is somewhat sluggish, the organs slurred, as Frahm slows it down to a funereal 33rpm that nevertheless fits perfectly. The purring of his girlfriend's cat Cleo transitions playfully between Nina Simone's definitive version of 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes' and unearthing the gentle electronics of Dub Tractor. Eddy Arnold's 'You're The Only Star', a country tune that sounds like its transmitting from a mid-west diner wireless circa 1947, is straight from the soundtrack to an imaginary David Lynch movie, comforting and dismaying all at once. This crackly reality abounds, as on Finnish band Gentleman Losers' 'Honey Bunch', that adds an unsettling texture, with a sound that is modern but as nostalgic.

Frahm's own tracks bookend the mix, opening with an inspired 'rework' of the infamous silent John Cage piece '4:33' ("I sat at the piano in silence and worked from there. I listened and took in the atmosphere and this is what came out of it") and ending with a solo piano version of 'Them', taken from his recently released score of the film 'Victoria'. The traditional Late Night Tales spoken word epilogue is voiced by actor Cillian Murphy (Inception, Batman, 28 Days Later), reading a short story by Edna Walsh (Hunger, Disco Pigs).

Tracklist:

A1 Nils Frahm - 4'33" (Exclusive John Cage cover version) 3:56

A2 The Baka Forest People Of South-East Cameroon - Liquindi 2 1:11

A3 Carl Oesterhelt & Johannes Enders - Divertimento Fur Tenorsaxophon Und Kleines Ensemble Pt.4 4:41
A4 Four Tet - 0181 (excerpt) 1:12

A5 Boards Of Canada - In A Beautiful lace Out In The Country 6:07

A6 Bibio - It Was Willow 2:02


B1 Dictaphone - Peaks 5:22

B2 System - SK20 4:45

B3 Rhythm & Sound - Mango Drive 7:12


C1 Victor Silvester & His Ballroom Orchestra - Talk Of The Town 1:47

C2 Miles Davis - Générique 2:52

C3 Colin Stetson - The Righteous Wrath Of An Honorable Man 2:28

C4 Penguin Café Orchestra - Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter 3:09

C5 Nina Simone - Who Knows Where The Time Goes 8:12

C6 Gene Autry - You’re The Only Star In My Blue Heaven 2:39


D1 Dinu Lipatti - O Herr Bleibet Meine Freunde, BMV 147 3:26

D2 Nina Jurisch - Cleo The Cat (Exclusive track) 0:44

D3 Dub Tractor - Cirkel 3:21

D4 The Gentlemen Losers - Honey Bunch 2:26

D5 Nils Frahm - Them "Solo Piano Edit" (Exclusive version) 4:16

D6 Cillian Murphy - In The Morning (Exclusive spoken word piece) 6:43