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This is the second full-length album by Berlin-based Frank Schültge Blumm and Ellinor Blixt aka Bobby And Blumm for Morr sister-label, Sound Of A Handshake. Since the release of their debut Everybody Loves... (MORR 081CD), the duo has matured and refined their sound, creating more space in their music while still possessing an incredibly soft intimacy. Above it all floats the enchanting voice of Ellinor Blixt, a voice which sounds right up close and so far away at the same time. Evoking a state of sweet melancholy, it describes a moment of beauty and sadness at the same time. A Little Big is music of restrained urgency, of silent greatness, of magical realism. In every corner there is an understated detail, a rustling, a silky whisper, a careful finger-picking. The wonderful guitar skills of Blumm have depth and are, at the same time, light, effortless and elegant -- the perfect counterpart to Ellinor's fragile singing. Harmonic duets and dialogues are intertwined in close arrangements -- a flutter of the eyelashes, a chime, a soft beat, a muted keyboard, A Little Big is the sound of significant silence and elegant pauses. The more you listen to this album, the more beautiful it becomes, and the deeper its roots.
"don't turn piggies into powder
spare some sources
bend borders
thanks to everybody who bought this record
there's no business like no business"
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MORR 081CD
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Bobby and Blumm is Sweden's Ellinor Blixt (aka Bobby Baby) and Germany's F.S. Blumm, and this is their debut release for the Morr Music label. Bobby tours with her band It's A Musical! and as Bobby Baby and manages a pop-camp for teenage girls in Sweden and Germany. Frank Schültge Blumm has been releasing records since 1998. His first full-length solo album came out on Morr Music in 2001(Mondkuchen), and he is an author and producer of radio-plays. Their debut recording features voices and pickings, guitar, keyboard, Swedish bag and other biscuits. B&B try to give the wide world of pop some little turns and unexpected changes with hiss and rustle, dreamy sound, soft and fragile voices, purity and warmth. Everybody Loves... was recorded 50km north of Berlin in a little house at the edge of the forest in a room with wooden walls and as a result, you will hear the crackling sounds of shellac records, a caressing clothes-brush, some fingertips on greaseproof paper, as well as swinging coat hangers on the night train to Krakow, flat-wound strings on a big guitar and above all, a gentle and silky voice. Bobby and Blumm feel the influence of the following records: Stina Nordenstam, People Are Strange, Nico, Chelsea Girl, Juana Molina, Tres Cosas, David Grubbs, Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange and The Best Of Burt Bacharach.
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MORR 081LP
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LP version with fold-out poster lyric sheet.
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