The three from ELF do not make it easy for their audience with the new album, because the fact that its title “Fram” refers to Nansen’s research ship, to expeditions that led to essential new discoveries in oceanography, the discovery of the corkscrew flow and other phenomena, is this hint leave out Walter Lang, Gerwin, called Geff Eisenhauer and Sebastian Gieck. This is a brilliant narrative idea for an album, for music that was designed as unusual as the Fram, with which you can catapult yourself into the middle of romantic ice deserts, into cold desert wastes, as Caspar David Friedrich already recorded .
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Beats as if the head pointer easily got one
“Of course we were looking for new sounds, tones and textures – and then found our bonds in electronic music,” says drummer Geff Eisenhauer, if you will, the machinist from ELF. The man from Upper Palatinate initiated the formation over 15 years ago. He had had enough of old-fashioned swing and got involved in impulses that came from electronic music, dance floors and clubs. Jungle, Techno, House and Drum’n’Bass were the urban dance genres back then. He was particularly impressed by their beats, which were programmed on the computer: “Trap-like grooves, which are nowadays understood as ‘drunken beats’, which at first glance sound as if the drummer could easily sit, get through Repetition has its very own aesthetic. “
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“Fram” from ELF, named after the expedition ship. —
Music as a ship, vehicle and means of transport. You have to listen to this album several times and get involved in the magic that the three ELF musicians are able to spread here. A successful album between Bach and Drum’nBass, which ELF recorded before the lockdown in Sweden – lyrical soundtrack to the pandemic, that too. Drummer Eisenhauer especially misses making music together. In a restaurant in Regensburg he calls for pandemic concerts, the musicians appear masked and at a suitable distance, they are surrounded by 25 mannequins – it’s still better than cucumbering alone. Eisenhauer describes the idea as follows: “In the background there is a sample with a bar-club atmosphere. We play a concert, 40 minutes twice, with a break in between. It is a bit of a symbol that we still work and do our job, even if we do we are currently estranged from our audience and play in front of mannequins. But we play! “ “Bavaria speaks about it”: The new BR24 newsletter informs you every Monday to Friday after work about the most important things of the day at a glance – compact and directly in your private mailbox. Register here! –
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