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About funkel

The third novisad collects songs that were made during a timespan of more than 7 years. Each song tells it's own story and describes a distinct emotion. I think that each also represents a special part in my life. novisad is very personal music that comes from heart. That may is the reason why I can't tell much more about it, because you just can't talk a lot about emotions. So why not let the music tell the story for you and discover it for yourself.

The album starts with the song funkel that originally was made for a live performance with Jürgen de Blonde on the kraak festival back in 2001. The sounds on untitled 2 came from Aaron & Sandra from the Lucky Kitchen. At this time I figured out that a guitar is an instrument with infinite ways of sound. So you can see this novisad also as a concept album that was made only out of guitar samples I collected from here and there.

For me this novisad will mostly be music for the time after that reminds myself that all things must come to an end - eventually.

funkel Preview

You can listen to some mp3 previews.

01. funkel 02. song 2 03. untitled 1 04. song 1 05. untitled 3 06. raindrops 07. untitled 4 08. untitled 9 09. tokimeki-pingpong 10. pingpong 11. restspielzeit 12. yappari 13. distant vicinity 14. tine 15. verlauf 16. untitled 2 17. kaeri 18. abbild

novisad Reviews

Read here what other people wrote about novisad:

Novisad: Funkel
Funkel, Kristian Peters' third album under the Novisad name (Novisad and Seleya appeared on Tomlab in 1998 and 2001 respectively), packs eighteen songs, all of them produced during a seven-year timespan, into a fleeting forty-two minute running time. As a result, the tracks' two-minute durations don't typically allow them to move through the conventional narrative stages one might encounter in a longer composition. As a result, most of Funkel's songs are even-flowing set-pieces that use layered loops to establish a mood and then hew to it for the duration. The material is also, by design, a concept album of sorts with all of the pieces created from guitar samples the Rostock, Germany-based producer (who has also issued material under his real name and as Adlib) collected over time and from different places, Peters having embraced the concept upon realizing the infinite potential the single instrument offers.
Despite whatever seeming limitations one might think an adherence to a single instrument would impose, Funkel's material reveals a generous range of variety. Acoustic lattices fall like raindrops during "Song 2", crystalline, harp-like flutterings dominate "Untitled 4", and stuttering filigrees of acoustic and electric guitars find Novisad firmly ensconced in Klimek territory during "Raindrops". A swim in a quiet sea of static hiss and pops, gentle strums evoke a tranquil country setting in "Untitled2" while a lilting percussion rhythm underscores blurry streams and gentle shadings in "Abbild". The ambient haze Peters generates in "Yappari" indicates why Novisad's inclusion on Kompakt's Pop Ambient 2002 makes perfect sense. Though Peters asserts that the album material is built from guitar samples, the range of sounds sometimes suggests a broader range of sound sources; rippling pianos seem to appear alongside percussive rhythms and billowing lattices during "Untitled 9" but, then again, it's entirely possible that the sounds derive from heavily-treated guitar-generated material. Listeners hungry for compositions featuring dramatic peaks and valleys won't find them on Funkel; what they will find are eighteen, semi-static mood pieces tailor-made to induce reverie and reflection.
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More about novisad

You can visit the funkel page on flau. There you can order the album directly if you want.

novisad Musik, die verzaubert, schön und unerläßlich sich einen Weg in das menschliche Gehör bahnt, als wäre es selbstverständlich aber nicht abstrakt.

Seleya Kleine Geschichtlein aus dem Leben. Seleya beschreibt in jedem Song ein kleines Stück aus dem Herzen gegriffen ihre ganz eigene Definition von Emotion.

Getting funkel

funkel was released by flau in Japan. Below is a list of distributions:

- a-musik (Germany) - flau shop (World) - boomkat (UK) - u-cover (Belgium) - popmuzik (Fukuoka) - Amazon (Japan) - diskunion (Japan) - hmv (Japan) - tower records (Japan) - u-pop (Japan) - asahi records (Japan) - norman records (UK) - othermusic (US) - tonevendor (US) - mu-nest (South Asia) - cd japan (Japan) - node culture (Taiwan) - white noise (Hong Kong) - pinto musica (Macau) - linus records (Tokyo) - onsa (Tokyo) - warszawa (Tokyo) - ftarri (Tokyo) - weird-meddle (Sapporo) - store15nov (Sendai) - rallye (Kanazawa) - pastel records (Nara) - art rock no.1 (Kyoto) - fastcut (Kobe)