Taub - "Bedtime Stories" (2008)

Tracklist:

01. Bed
02. Sparkle
03. Chamberpot
04. Wild Blue Yonder
05. Valid Bed
06. Rouge Absolut
07. La Ronde At The Top
08. Dead Jerk
09. Invalid Bed
10. Backyard Maud And The Fraudian Fairy
11. Midgets

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Taub – Bedtime Stories (Nonie Recordings - 2009)

Taub takes you on a rare journey. a timeless meander through half conscious daydreams, toying with abstractions, playing with our senses and all we have formally come to recognize as music. It is simply an album and experience not to be missed, with moods and rhythms we‘ve only seen while timelessly ambling through our future memories
[David Ennio Minor]

Verschlafen tagträumende, langsam mäandere beats und drüber hallen wundervolle klavierakkorde., dann wieder entfalten sich scheinbar zwiegespräche zwischen instrumenten und maschinen. spannend...
[Skug Zine]

Bedtime Stories is the new release by Taub, aka Me Raabenstein and Harold Nono. it is a work of haunting sonic landscapes and fragmented realities, glued together with precision and beauty. it will lull you into worlds of spacious minimal sounsdcapes and sonic cinematic journeys, which constantly resolve back to a single sound event or just quiet
[Furthernoise]

This album is about sleep, dreaming, and the abstract ideas and concepts that emerge while in those states. musically, the band mixes electronic and acoustic elements sort of reminiscent of the way mum does. perhaps the most constant, reoccurring musical element is the lullabye-like piano that grounds the melody in several of this album's songs
[Foxy Digitalis]

Eine schwere unsicherheit gepaart mit erschöpfter melancholie entsteht in den zwischenräumen, die taub nicht zu ändern scheinen wollen. es ist eine seltsame welt, in der sie leben. eine kreation, deren unvollständigkeit eine entrückte schönheit ausstrahlt, mit lücken, in die man unversehens stürzen kann.
[Goon-magazin]

“Wild Blue Yonder” plays with space and volume within a minimal framework of sound, surprising the ears with sudden nearby piano strikes while an emotive theme wipes across the further fields. it’s a recording that seldom plays it safe and it’s these risks that help avoid any lazy categorizing
[Exclaim.ca]

At times the music sounds like a minimalist soundtrack to a silent movie while at others like a slightly frantic electronic escapade. using electronic instruments and effects, at times exercising an electro-acoustic route, this album has a special bewitching sound. Sparse and abstract, dream-like... If you’re into the experimental use of electronics and sounds you will find something to delve into in this album
[Sonicfrontiers]

Broken melodies slip-slide in and out of focus. Ghostly piano melodies haunt “Wild Blue Yonder” and ululating voices, when not sliced into stuttering patter, wail and shudder through “Invalid Bed” while “Backyard Maud The Fraudian Fairy” sounds as disturbed as a stalker sequence in a slasher soundtrack. The pieces that succeed best, however, are those bearing strongly defined structures that the listener can latch onto, one like “Sparkle”
[Textura]

Elettronica melodica ma non vocale dato che a parte qualche voce campionata qua e là ma comunque relegata al fondo, nessun vocalist che porti fede a questo nome e direi che sia un bene visto che non sembrano necessitare del "rinforzino". forse ancora da sviluppare in alcuni particolari e negli arrangiamenti, ma si tratta di un ottimo esordio
[Sodapop]

Taub proposent une pop électronique, une démarche musicale en crabe entre classicisme et electro. envolées au piano et mélancolie à fleur de peau, les ambiances allient les emprunts à la pop cérébrale de spoonfed hybrid et la poésie atmosphérique de fingernail. composée de rythmes finement ficelés et de mystères des brumes matinales. ambiances feutrées, thématique nocturne, bleep nonchalants et guitares discrètes
[Station Service]

Un mondo fatto di idm, trance e aromi di future funk. musica nella maggior parte dei casi notturna e avvolgente costruita intorno a melodie semplici e di forte impatto. la classica collaborazione a distanza in cui ognuno dei due musicisti ha aggiunto la sua personalità sulla traccia spedita via email dall'amico. il risultato è meno frammentato di quanto di solito ci si aspetta in questi casi, e al contrario, tra le melodie di questa musica, sembrano brillare idee e soluzioni capaci di oscurare ben più note analoghe collaborazioni
[Losing Today]

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Taub are Harold Nono and Me Raabenstein