Polaroid Notes

“Still Life” is an intimate and introspective album about cocooning, silent sorrow and the hope for better days to come. The eleven tracks carry within a deep melancholic mood which reflects the lost and forgotten moments with the ones we love and dearly miss. "Still Life" is the sequel to the albums "Low Tides" and "Ghost Sounds". Music that circles in slowmotion around deep and minimalistic pian...

Recorded for Nils Frahm's Piano Day on 29th March 2021. "Time Passes Slowly" is the first track of my new album "Still Life", available at Bandcamp.

The soundstory "Schneewehen" ("Snow Drift") is an art project combining music, poetry and painting. "Schneewehen" was released 1st Dec 2020 by Weber & Alcantu, a collaborative project. "Schneewehen" is a 40 min soundstory that reminds of a deep and quiet winter with a deep blue starry sky and frost flowers. Audio : Polaroid Notes Illustrations : Celina Schadow Text : Lorenz Weber Handcrafting : ma...

2020 plays out to the sound of "Ghost Sounds" by Polaroid Notes, who returns to the British label Whitelabrecs following 2017’s ‘Unsung Memories’. "Ghost Sounds" treads the cinematic lines of atmospheric piano and electronic ambient music, with unsettling undercurrents which occasionally creep into view. It has been in production since November 2019 as the sound of Polaroid Notes was pushed to dev...

If you substract the piano sounds from Polaroid Notes there will be drones. In all its beauty and depth. The idea of "Drone Reworks" is almost as old as Polaroid Notes itself. Emphasising what's behind in the background. All tracks were newly recorded using pattern and sounds of the original tracks, sometimes adding a few new notes and sounds or just looping and reversing them. The original source...

Polaroid Notes - Home Diaries: Moonlight Sessions Home Diaries is a series of UK label Whitelabrecs. It's an invitation to artists and musicians to create an album or EP to document their personal experience during the lockdown or social distancing conditions that are upon us, due to the coronavirus outbreak. The series reflects a range of sounds, styles and ideas, as each artist portrays their ow...

This is the first vinyl release of POLAROID NOTES. "Passing Paris" comes as limited edition 10 Inch in a beautiful lathe cut edition. The idea for "Passing Paris" was born during a TGV train journey from Strasbourg to Rennes in Brittany. The journey through summery France, endless agricultural landscapes, the high speed of the train in contrast to the slowly changing countryside created an interes...

"Tell Me..." is one of the most slowed down and moody tracks I've ever recorded. A song dedicated to all who are strolling around aimlessly at midnight. "Tell Me..." was part of the recording session for Nils Frahm's Piano Day 2019, released on the EP "Golden Heart" (Büro für Erdrotation). Download @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/golden-heart-ep

Recorded for Nils Frahm's Piano Day on 29th March 2019 Download of "Golden Heart" plus three bonus tracks @ https://polaroidnotes.bandcamp.com/album/golden-heart-ep

"Angel Band" is after "The Rhodes Session", Dim Lights" und "Re: Improvisation" the fourth release of POLAROID NOTES especially exploring the warm and deep sounds of an old Fender Rhodes piano. Six minimalistic slow-motion soundscapes which grow slowly with deep conscience and a heart full of love. Tracklist: 1. Stay For A While 2. Turn Down The Lights 3. Angel Band 4. Low Tides (Version) 5. Sleep...

“Low Tides” is about personal losses and silent sorrow, about fading away into darkness and other emotional moments. The album refers to the legend, that at the Baie de Trépassés – a small bay at Cap Sizun in Brittany between Pointe du Raz and Pointe du Van – the souls of the deceased wait for the death ship to take them to the afterworld. The eleven tracks of “Low Tides” are circling around dense...

Here's a teaser of the forthcoming Polaroid Notes album "Low Tides" which will be soon available as digital and limited edition CD release.

Recorded for Nils Frahm's Piano Day on 29th March 2018

“As Time Goes By” is a collection of unreleased songs and outtakes. During the recording session for the “Days Of Our Lives” EP (released on Audio Gourmet in August 2017) a couple of tracks remained unfinished and unreleased. Together with some new recordings done in autumn and some “lost” tracks of the album “Unsung Memories” (released on Whitelabrecs in October 2017) I thought it would be a good...

"Unsung Memories" is a limited edition CD / digital release on British Whitelabrecs. The album is intended as a film score for an unfilmed movie or TV series, as the matters of dark characters play out across the frames. Each track could represent a single episode or scene. It’s like a journey through deserted and desolate landscapes, cities, hearts and minds, provoking pictures of fate and despai...

Second release of Polaroid Notes on UK label Audio Gourmet. The EP "Days Of Our Lives" preceeds the forthcoming new PN album "Unsung Memories", soon to be released in autumn. "Days Of Our Lives" is a set of four pieces produced over two hot nights in early July this year and features a piano, two digital synthesizer apps, rhodes samples and field recordings, drenched in effects. The EP is a short...

Polaroid Notes - The Dying Sun by Polaroid Notes

About the release: Recently I dropped by an old Fender Rhodes piano. It was slightly out of tune, some keys were not working at all, but anyway.... The tunes sound strange, creating a dark and very moody atmosphere. The tracks were recorded on-the-spot within a few hours. Like acoustic polaroid scetches - press the button and let's see what's happening. The limited edition CD package comes with a...