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Thank You For Not Discussing The Outside World

by Audiac

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1.
The Zipper 02:58
mmmh zip faceless the otherness the great unknown pleasure free of ulterior motives no power game just take me the A1-fuck free of all remorse and guilt no talk at all take me I know what to do don't hesitate trust me
2.
everybody's sneaking baby sneak from warmth to warmth that's the way it goes everybody's jumping baby jump from heart to heart from fur to fur 6 in the evening eat a bite go to sleep 2 in the night get up and do the catwalk an endless stroll tiny little moons a torn dress sneak into the night culture everybody's sneaking baby sneak from warmth to warmth that's the way it goes everybody's jumping baby jump from heart to heart from fur to fur stay loose when I kiss you right in the middle of nothing c'est ridicule ma bête we know what we're in for it we've slept for years beneath a thundercloud
3.
Gagarin 03:18
above the world where our hearts are high stars will shine twice as bright than tonight I wanna spread the wisdom I cruised reach point alpha the creative blackhole all this useless beauty all this useless beauty be in my head and in my understanding be in my eyes and in my booking be in my mouth and in my speaking be in my heart and in my thinking stars will shine twice as bright than tonight they will hit us much more radiant! than ever before I wanna spread the wisdom I cruised reach the core of all energy reach god's womb all this useless beauty all this useless beauty be in my head and in my understanding be in my eyes and in my booking be in my mouth and in my speaking be in my heart and in my thinking beyond this world deep into our core it will hit us much more radiant! king size! than ever before all energy will meet one day spiritualize the space
4.
close to me that's how I feel she dances a little warm death eating me up inside outside inside my blood she comes and goes and is still here just like the trick that goes like this just like the prick she is I'm talking about the short ache in my body yes I'm talking about the flick of the switch that makes me cool that makes me cold cold cold yes I come and go and I'm still here waiting for the next bite I am waiting for the one who made me what I am today
5.
Vanity Fair 05:56
she says come on silk face let's go get some white love g it's astounding it's absolutely bright as day we could go through all there is and nestle easy into bliss such a beauty loves to love blanche g we love me and me love we she says we could go hunting with a mean mean super swing past every offer right on to the check-out checkin out this soul thing sister dip in and out of bliss so much beauty mercy merci beaucoup we love me and me love we
6.
melancholic outs in the back of the house downhill ghetto-blaster late september everytime the beat collapses melancholic outs in the kitchen still look at the top of my shoe just about to rain everytime the beat collapses mmh that stubborn mood is closin in on me I must be losin my grip heaven! I heard haven't I heard something breaking or did the record just flip melancholic outs on a chair dreamwards telephone! I could but I won't everything changes and remains the same melancholic outs my dear dame my dear impudent dame miss melancholy mmh that stubborn mood is closin in on me I must be losin my grip heaven! I heard haven't I heard something breaking or did the needle just skip
7.
8.
Beausoleil 05:02
it's gift almost sometimes a knot simply broken a word softly spoken from behind it's gift a sweet delight a hum inside your pillow a breath that wakes you up at night if I were a thought to die a dream that you can't mend would you still remember me could you pretend that it's a gift so fine so fine so fine to play love when it ain't there yet to kiss and kill to wake to joy cute is the song how cute is the song fine is the fiction how fine is the fiction so fine so fine so fine
9.
Mono Hotel 02:03
10.
Hey Joe/Ads 08:32

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LINER NOTES

The music of Audiac is melancholic. At times, it is even bleak and despairing. "Oh" you might say, "what a way to introduce a record. Now why should I listen to such a drab thing?" Here is why: Because Audiac's music is still so full of beauty that no matter how barren your emotional life or how bleak the view from your window might be, it still makes you want to go on exploring life for "all its useless beauty" (a quote from one of their songs but also from someone else). After an energetic opener, Audiac come up with an absolute pearl of a song: SNEAKING gives you with that four o'clock- in- the- morning- and- I- am- the- only- living- being- in- this- world- feeling.

This music tells you in a very gentle way that loneliness and despair are part of human life. It makes you feel lonely and at the same time it lets you know you're in good company. Such is the power of Audiac's music.

It took the band almost four years to record this album. By the time of finishing it, they had crammed so many ideas into it, that the songs were on the verge of bursting. So they took the tapes to Hans-Joachim Irmler and asked him to produce them. In this process, almost half the ideas went out of the window of Irmler's Klangbad-Studio. The band themselves were at this point too much immersed in their work to have the necessary distance, so Irmler did the purging work on his own (working as a sonic reducer, you might say). A setup like this would be a horror-scenario to most bands. Yet Alex Wiemer, Singer and Bassist with Audiac, thinks that a composer has to be able to let go of his work, of the idea he has of a certain composition. And so he let go of SNEAKING and was very pleased with what his partner Niklas David, keyboarder and arranger, came up with. And then they were both happy with what Irmler made of it. All their channels are open, as Alex says.

This process has brought out what is really good about these songs. For example: On WHAT I AM TODAY their musical ideas were minimized to a maximum effect. That piano lick you can hear throughout the song is pure genius, and when it comes to stand alone at the end, you find yourself wishing it would go on forever, such is its inherent beauty.

Maybe this music will affect people on the inside because it was done in very hermetic way. All of the tracks to this album were recorded in a small room in Tübingen, Germany, by two old-time friends, who knew each other from school-days. This is not music for big halls or discotheques, it is for small rooms, stuffed with personal memorabilia or for car-rides through the rain. It is extremely personal and works best on a one-to-one-basis. Which is an explanation of its album's title.

Another interpretation of the title is that Audiac's music leaves out 99% of all other music that is currently around and clogging up our ears. This is in no way Rock of Pop, but something idiosyncratic (ok, all liner notes want to make you believe that), something with its roots more in a European music tradition. It has a lot in common with classical music and thus could be called a fine circum-navigation of the all rock-stereotypes. Given the musical output of today and Audiac's unwillingness to mix with that, their title comes as a sigh from the heart of anybody really into music: Thank you for not discussing the outside world.

Ralf Bei der Kellen

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released November 16, 2003

All songs written by David & Wiemer
except Hey Joe (Traditional)
Freibank: Edition Freispiel 2003
Klangbad 2003

Coverdesign: Apfel Zet, Berlin

Klangarbeiter: Bruno Gebhard
Produced by Hans Joachim Irmler

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