Spring Story, by Schmo

Spring Story

by Schmo

supported by

Lost Tribe Sound One of the most feel good slices of electroacoustic rhythm-forward goodness I stumbled upon in 2020, right up there with the new Inventions album. Schmo creates glorious tiny sound worlds within Spring Story, reminiscent of early Fourtet, Directorsound, The Boats, Aaron Martin or Tape. Yet Schmo brushes up against so many wonderfully inviting melodies and moves with such grace from one setting to the next that it really does have carry a brilliance all its own. Well done, Mr. Hohnen and Flau!

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$15 USD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming of Spring Story via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 10 days

4 remaining

Purchasable with gift card

$18 USD
Full Digital Discography

120

releases

Get all 120 FLAU releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Emboss Star Remixes, Piano Diary, See-through Remixes, The Deserter, Gemini — mysterious lot, Reflection Overdrive, WAKEN Remixes, See-through, and 112 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$824.60 USD (30% OFF)

1.	Bring Flowers 02:03	buy track
2.	Overflow 05:01	buy track
3.	January February 03:47	buy track
4.	Crumbles Cookie Wise 01:57	buy track
5.	Moszár 03:02	buy track
6.	Gambit 01:28	buy track
7.	Alphabetical 03:26	buy track
8.	South from Here 04:16	buy track
9.	Pears 02:40	buy track
10.	Black Rook in Rainy Weather 02:07	buy track
11.	Solomon 05:40	buy track
12.	Hajós Utca 02:54	buy track
13.	Alma Shuffle 03:17	buy track
14.	North from There 03:54	buy track
15.	Over and Out 03:38	buy track

about

Spring Story by Schmo (aka Perth, Australia, composer Harry Hohnen) is a collage of sound. It is faint recollections of street corners, the sound of somewhere vaguely remembered and the sound of nowhere all at once. His work evolves naturally, organically opening like a flower in time-lapse, or like the emotion that flows when you open a dusty brown envelope and see an old family photo. As Hohnen himself puts it, “It's not really a cerebral process. It’s practical work of experimenting and crafting.”

From the warm piano loops of ‘January February’ imprinting their hopeful pre-spring melancholy onto your ears, to the textured woodwinds in the touching ‘Black rook in rainy weather’, the songs of Spring Story are lovingly crafted. It’s a product of arranging samples and “trying to find what feels right” with how the music progresses.

“I enjoy tinkering,” Hohnen says, “Moving sounds around, seeing what fits together.”

There’s family connection in Spring Story, too, with the album artwork part of a series painted by Hohnen’s father, its “colour, clarity and calm” matching the distinct daubs of instrumentation that slot together seamlessly throughout the album. Both the jaunty and mechanical ‘Moszár’ and ghostly ‘Hajós utca’ refer to streets in Budapest neighbourhood where his mother's parents lived before they became refugees during World War II. Even the moniker Schmo itself is a nickname given him by his father.

Overall, Spring Story echoes in the mind like a treasure chest of sound, a display case of curios, a modernist patchwork of memories, all expertly crafted in artfully looping vignettes and graceful sound poems — “something from nothing,” explains Hohnen, “placing one room next to another, hoping to create a space that catches light the right way.”

credits

released September 18, 2020

license

total		USD

about

FLAU 東京都, Japan

SHIPPING IS STANDARD AIRMAIL ONLY. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST OR DAMAGED PACKAGES. IF YOU WOULD LIKE WE TO USE REGISTERED MAIL, PLEASE E-MAIL US BEFORE ORDERING.
Currently delivery times may be longer than usual. hope you understand the situation before ordering. ... more

contact / help

Contact FLAU

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Spring Story, you may also like:

To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
by Alabaster DePlume

supported by 6 fans who also own “Spring Story”

I cannot pick favourites in this album as different listens bring new joys and and remind of others pjhwalter
go to album
More Energy Fields, Current
by Carlos Niño & Friends

supported by 5 fans who also own “Spring Story”

"More Energy Fields, Current" is an excellent Jazz release, featuring Niño and others in a variety of trios and groupings, all coming together to create a set of great music with an evocative mood and feeling that instantly connects with the listener. rikm
go to album
Ism
by Junius Paul

supported by 5 fans who also own “Spring Story”

This label has released some wonderful albums and this is right up there with the best of them. Denis Madden
go to album
Daniel Szlajnda - Komorebi
by Daniel Szlajnda

As Komorebi, Daniel Szlajnda foregoes his usual club aesthetic for a more experimental sound, exploring ambiance and atmospherics. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 29, 2020
go to album
Beginning c/w Lena Willikens Remix
by 関根真理 Mari Sekine, Lena Willikens

featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 13, 2018
go to album
NUNU
by Clever Austin

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jun 22, 2021
go to album
Suite for Max Brown
by Jeff Parker

supported by 5 fans who also own “Spring Story”

A truly incredible listening experience fusing Jazz, R&B, Soul, and more all together in an impressive and amazing release that demonstrates an awesome talent and a strong musical vision and ideal. Highly recommended... rikm
go to album