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Now I'm a Plant

by Stepha Schweiger

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The gaye device I love the stark beautiful rawness of Stepha's vocals with electronics and piano delivering these poems in a musical setting that just works so perfect.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    released June 11 2019
    cardboard sleeve
    artwork by Wolfgang Spelmans

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Floryan nachdenklich (Jlin Remix), When I was a Bird, Sea Crazy Song, Now I'm a Plant - Remixes, Now I'm a Plant, Dissolve into, visionmusique, and Sp19ri9ng one for Piano. , and , .

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1.
Wooden Leg 03:39
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2.
Voices of the Air 04:32
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3.
Strange Hotels 03:37
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4.
Why Love is Blind 05:02
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5.
Loneliness 03:32
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6.
Now I´m a Plant 05:28
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7.
To L.H.B. 05:19
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8.
Now I´m a Plant Instrumental 06:50
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9.
The Gulf 04:01
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10.
Now Once More 05:40
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Now I’m a Plant
Stepha Schweiger

NEW! cd released June 11 2019
album cd including remixes by Pyrolator and Inthegardenofbeauty

Release CONCERTS! in Austria/Germany, June 2019
Vienna, Kramladen / Wow! Signal, June 11 2019
Graz, Cafe Wolf, June 13 2019
Moosburg, Jazzclub Hirsch, June 15 2019

Now I'm a Plant
Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsq3-8Ums5U&feature=youtu.be

"This album conveys such a beautiful atmosphere – and for me its
purist combination of piano, electronic sounds and voice is phenomenally successful."
Kurt Dahlke / "Pyrolator"

Following directly on the premiere of her music theatre "The Mark on the Wall" – based on the short story of the same name by Virginia Woolf – Stepha Schweiger has now recorded and released poems by Katherine Mansfield in their first-ever musical setting.

This unique album was produced by Hanno Leichtmann. He has enriched the piano and voice recordings with electronic sounds, basses and loops, while completely renouncing drums.

The title song "Now I'm a Plant" is included in an instrumental and a sung version. The pianist Stepha Schweiger sings about plant worlds and wandering around as insects fly through the air.

Wolfgang Spelmans - responsible for the visual concept - is crafting the album’s atmospheric mood and feel with a uniform consistency from the cover through to the video.

The songs float and soar intrinsically, revealing ever-new musical routes as they do so. And the sounds stream into our minds like reveries, bearing us away to a nocturnal cosmos, embedded in a pillowy sanctuary: With the congenial musical adaptation and the words of a great poet joining the listeners on their journey.

Katherine Mansfield left behind truly fascinating texts, with most of them not intended for publication. Such as poems that reminisce about her childhood in New Zealand, and broach the subjects of dream, sound, nature, myths, fulfilment and loss. As to be found in "Why Love is Blind": "The cupid child, tired of the winter days, wept and lamented for the skies of blue, until, foolish child, he cried his eyes away, and violets grew."

Piece by piece, assemblies of text and sounds are constructed: hallucinatory, compelling and concrete. With this new masterpiece now waiting to be discovered by her audiences, as Stepha Schweiger astounds and amazes them over and over.

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released July 17, 2018

Stepha Schweiger
Now I'm a Plant

vocals and piano by Stepha Schweiger
produced by Hanno Leichtmann with electronic sounds, basses and loops
rough effects mix by Thomas Stern
mastered by Ulrich Müller

music by Stepha Schweiger
words by Katherine Mansfield except „Now Once More“: words by Virginia Woolf
visual concept by Wolfgang Spelmans

copyright & publishing 2018

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2023 Heroines of Sound Festival, 2022 The Moon Is No Door - band release - tour, 2020/21 When I was a Bird - album - maxi single, 2018/19 Now I'm a Plant, 2017/18/19: The Mark on the Wall - music theatre wp, 2018 musikprotokoll Steirischer Herbst. Avant-garde composer, pianist, electro, singer/songwriter, industrial, conceptual, krautrock, free jazz, psychedelic, postpunk, spectral, natural tuning ... more

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