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Approx Twelve

by Le Rok

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    - 140gr Black Vinyl
    - Spined Sleeve 3mm
    - White Inner Sleeve

    Tracklisting EP
    Bonsoir 80N
    Cold End
    Cheeseball

    Weak Textarea
    Frameset
    Directors Cut

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    - Four-Page Booklet
    - Jewel Case /w a black tray
    - Sealed

    Tracklisting CD
    Bonsoir 80N
    Cold End
    Choped Ride
    Weak Textarea
    Dropdown
    Frameset
    Happy Apple
    Cheeseball
    Altarboys
    Feierabend

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1.
Bonsoir 80N 05:38
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2.
Cold End 04:25
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3.
Choped Ride 05:23
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4.
Weak Textarea 05:20
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5.
Dropdown 04:44
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6.
Frameset 05:54
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7.
Directors Cut 04:17
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8.
Happy Apple 04:45
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9.
Cheeseball 04:59
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10.
Altarboys 04:41
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11.
Feierabend 03:04
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about

Three years ago Karaoke Kalk released the debut by Le Rok, fittingly named Hausarbeiten, indoor works - a choice collection of home recorded tracks which may have been produced in the course of six long years but put together resulted in an album with varied themes but a close stylistic connection between tracks. Le Rok and his songs need and take their time. Now, three years later, enough new tracks have coalesced to come to life as Approx Twelve.

Every single track on the new album has an individual history starting out with the idea for a song in the classical sense of the word. Going on from this solid foundation Le Rok rather casually collects than produces the elements from which the tracks are put together like mosaics. This results in a specifically relaxed setting - which not necessarily means slow or quiet - while lots of little things cling themselves tightly around the spine that is the basic song. This method only works when the necessary time is taken for those small pieces to grow together into a whole. In the end everything is one unit comprising all the elements from the initial song to the final beat.

Although the tracks take shape as a construction of digital bits and cuts, the songs never lose themselves inside the technical devices from which they derive. Inbetween all the tight textures remains a slight sense of melancholy which is not hiding itself but needs to be found. All the while the beats may stay up front but they are not consuming what is definitely there to be listened to.

Le Rok is the project of Christoph Döhne from Hanover in northern Germany. And maybe this not exactly urban setting is the reason for a specially relaxed way of looking upon things and time and thus keeping a specific sense of otherness.

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released March 16, 2007

all instruments, voices, computer-arrangements by le rok / christoph döhne, except the voicesample on track bonsoir 80n by sandra kretschmer.
this record follows up the debut album le rok / hausarbeiten, also on karaoke kalk.
further informations under
www.lerok.de

published by karaoke kalk musikverlag

© karaoke kalk 2007
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