Since 2009 Johannes Schebler has begun mapping out his surreal sonic topography.
Shortly after releasing his first experimental compositions on SicSic, his albums began circulating on labels all over Europe as well as in the USA and Japan.
Growing up in a small Bavarian village, where his family had moved to for his fathers work as a pastoral officer, young Johannes lived in the rectory attached to the church where the loud resonance of the bells, lush organ sounds and chorales of singing churchgoers were constantly present in his childhood. The alluring atmospheres enticed him and he spent several years serving as an altar boy. These early spiritual experiences are a foundation for Baldruin’s sound. In his teenage years, he was exposed to transcendental and dreamlike visions in surreal and avant-garde films which he obsessed over.
Schebler’s compositions offer reinterpretations of dark and mystic mythologies, a chance meeting with strange beings from unknown depths conjured in his imagination where he gives free rein to the fantastic and surreal.
Among his most striking recent works are the albums for important labels of the contemporary experimental scene such as Lullabies for Insomniacs, Mappa, Buh and Cosima Pitz.
Besides his own project, Schebler collaborates with Jani Hirvonen (Uton) as Grykë Pyje, with Hirvonen and Paul Wilson (f. ampism) as Yayoba, releasing on the American Not Not Fun, and with Christian Schoppik (Brannten Schnüre) as Freundliche Kreisel, releasing an album a couple of years ago on Belgian label STROOM.
Baldruin
Germany
Since 2009 Johannes Schebler has begun mapping out his surreal sonic topography.
Shortly after releasing his first experimental compositions on SicSic, his albums began circulating on labels all over Europe as well as in the USA and Japan.
Growing up in a small Bavarian village, where his family had moved to for his fathers work as a pastoral officer, young Johannes lived in the rectory attached to the church where the loud resonance of the bells, lush organ sounds and chorales of singing churchgoers were constantly present in his childhood. The alluring atmospheres enticed him and he spent several years serving as an altar boy. These early spiritual experiences are a foundation for Baldruin’s sound. In his teenage years, he was exposed to transcendental and dreamlike visions in surreal and avant-garde films which he obsessed over.
Schebler’s compositions offer reinterpretations of dark and mystic mythologies, a chance meeting with strange beings from unknown depths conjured in his imagination where he gives free rein to the fantastic and surreal.
Among his most striking recent works are the albums for important labels of the contemporary experimental scene such as Lullabies for Insomniacs, Mappa, Buh and Cosima Pitz.
Besides his own project, Schebler collaborates with Jani Hirvonen (Uton) as Grykë Pyje, with Hirvonen and Paul Wilson (f. ampism) as Yayoba, releasing on the American Not Not Fun, and with Christian Schoppik (Brannten Schnüre) as Freundliche Kreisel, releasing an album a couple of years ago on Belgian label STROOM.