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Improvised songs, improvised compositions, improvised improvisations

Ascend Flowers is one of those precious few moments when you can witness something completely new being created while listening to it. All the tracks were recorded in a continuous session in which the start button was pressed at the beginning and the process was then not interrupted for several hours. There is no more than one take of any piece. In post-production individual sounds were subtly and carefully modified electronically. At the end of this process the pieces still have the character of free improvisations, but they behave like compact songs.

The duo’s vision lies in questioning the familiar and the known from the ground up once again and re-positioning it with astonishing solutions. Ascend Flowers is not about a ritual or a trip by the musicians in which they allow the listener to participate, but about the radical poetry of spontaneously felt substance. What’s amazing is that the Nano Brothers turn a corner and completely reconfigure free improvised music.

Wolf Kampmann

Dear fellow beings, we hope this finds you well and the world on a rising sprig!

Nano Brothers

Johannes Ludwig - sax
Jürgen Friedrich - piano

1 Spring Lines 02:38
2 Derived From Good Sources 03:11
3 Wild Trust 01:54
4 Hommage Suprême 02:23
5 With People Gone 01:54
6 Auf Blumen Klettern 02:08
7 Do Disturb 01:25
8 Copy Nature 07:19
9 Mind Positivity 03:54
10 Being Sus 04:53
11 We Go As We Please 03:36
12 Active Reflective 02:05

all tracks by Nano Brothers

recorded by Hannes Plattmeier, Gunther Rose at Deutschlandfunk
radio producer Odilo Claunsnitzer
mixed by Hannes Plattmeier, additional effects by Jürgen Friedrich
mastered by Christian Heck
photo by Florian Fries
artwork by Corinne Hächler

https://johannesludwig.com
https://www.juergenfriedrich.net
https://www.instagram.com/johannesludwigmusic
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You can also watch 12 short videos on Spotify.