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22/01/2025

A very nice article by Gunther Reinhardt today in the Stuttgarter Zeitung about tomorrow's event and the release of the Colours album by Prince In His Arms (Ralv Milberg)

17/01/2025

The album Colours by Prince In His Arms will be released on Friday, January 24, 2025.

Neues Release kommt am 24. Januar 2025

17/01/2025

lay me next to her bones returns with a haunted and heavy anthem capturing the beauty of darkness and the weight of longing with their new single Bird Of Hermes.

Neues Release kommt am 17. Januar 2025

17/01/2025

The name Prince In His Arms covers the solo project of the Stuttgart based music producer Ralv Milberg.
"Colours" is showing en détail, why he is well-known as a music producer for his broad palette of tonal colours and diverse versatility. Under the alias Prince In His Arms he steadily but scarcely releases precious contributions in the field of ambient, experimental and dub music for 25 years now. In 2005, after three years of studio work, his former album was thieved and as a consequence it became a tad more quiet about the solo work of Ralv Milberg. Now, 20 years later, he finally releases the longplayer "Colours", what can be regarded as a destillate of his complete work so far. No doubt, this work is a bit bulky in regard to commercial aspects, at least when it comes to the format - the album consists of just two long pieces - and is a plea for the stunted listening habits of today. The album should explicitly be played as an "ambience", while doing everyday things and along with an extended breakfast on a weekend. And at the same time it is super pop music.
There is simultaneously a truely delicate carved out richness of detail "behind the scenes" waiting for the ambitious listener, not least because of the superb mastering work of And.Ypsilon (Die Fantastischen Vier). Believe it or not it took seven extended mastering-sessions, where every milisecond of the 35 minutes and 27 seconds lasting opus was laid under the "electron" microscope. The edges weren't grinded off, they were just formulated with the finest granulation.

With only a few minor exceptions contributed by his present wife Anne, Ralv Milberg has played all sounds and instruments by himself, albeit he was gratefully making use of sounds and stylistics of some befriended companions. In the section called "seq 4" he used a sound generator developed by the synthesizer-guru Günter Schlienz that was triggered by a light barrier of a big wooden pendulum, that Ralv Milberg built in his father's basement workshop in 1999 for the stage show of the band Navel, at the time he was also a band member.
"seq 6" was already represented in its initial version on the stolen album in 2005 and is the only composition that Milberg has taken over for the present album.
On the original version one could hear the virtuoso and distinctive drumming of Nico Lazarakopoulos, which Ralv Milberg tried to immitate on the current version by himself, but at least with a much better audio quality, when it comes to the recording. Nonetheless Milberg does at no point shy away the game with his roots within the Lofi music and D.I.Y. scene, even if the technical quality is no longer a statement, as the album sounds fairly High End.
The album made of 15 sequences in total is organically grown together to such an extent, that the constant changes - between mono and stereo playback, between Compact Cassette, DAT, MiniDisc and quarter inch tape - do no longer have a notable technical quality, even the occasional and then significantly audible tape noise is inwrought as a musical element. This is by no means a "Best of" or "Greatest Hits" thing, but an ethereal-organic trip through all kinds of tonal colours and tonal layers, masterly compiled. Some listeners will appear colours for sure (and for each they are probably different), as long as he accepts to engage with this journey. It's worth it.

24/12/2024

20/12/2024

Concert & exclusive album listening session “Colours” by Prince In His Arms (Ralv Milberg) at the Matthäuskirche Stuttgart on January 23, 2025

An entertaining concert with performances by style icon Anna Illenberger aka KiTZ and Prince In His Arms (Ralv Milberg) with mainly improvised psychedelic music and the first playback of the music album “Colours” by Prince In His Arms on vinyl to be released the next day in an acoustically excellent setting in the Matthäuskirche Stuttgart-Heslach

Admission: 19.00 h
Start 19.30 h

Prince In His Arms (Ralv Milberg)
Support: KiTZ (Anna Illenberger)

Lighting design: Hanno Braun (Agentur Netzhaut)
Live sound: Danny Häussler
Graphics: Kleon Medugorac

Technical support:

Mikula Elektrotechnik (Sebastian Mikula)
Tonikum (Robin Blischke)
VTS (Jürgen Heyl)
Stuttgarter Jugendhaus gGmbH

Financial support:
Kulturamt Stadt Stuttgart
Pop-Büro Region Stuttgart
webis GmbH

08/11/2024

Incredible American Sadness by Ehrenfeld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRbhsTymGLY

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16/10/2024

The 1991 debut album “Struggling in Darkness” (LP/7"/CD) by the German dark wave band BLUEFIELD available digitally for the first time October 25th Pre-save: https://bfan.link/struggling-in-darkness

07/09/2024

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07/09/2024

The new Ehrenfeld Release 'Incredible American Sadness'
is coming on October11! Pre-save now:
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06/09/2024

The new release “Incredible American Sadness” is coming on October 11! Pre-save now: https://bfan.link/incredible-american-sadness

05/04/2024

Shock Therapy "New Hope for the Retarted-The Past Life" album OUT NOW 🖤
Stream: https://bfan.link/new-hope-for-the-retarted

01/03/2024

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/MMTpfp2owc4?si=21ltt2HEDff3bb93

29/02/2024

Offshore new video by Lay me next to her bones
Out on 01/03/2024 🎥 premiere 00:00

lay me next to her bones - OffshoreStream: https://bfan.link/i-m-causing-lossProduced by: Breitenberger BässePresented by: I am Surprised RecordsDirector of ...

27/02/2024

After entering the german alternative single charts (DAC) last week Lay me next to her bones climbs this week at #10 ⚡

Thanks to all DJs for their support!

Look out for the brand new Offshore video .. 👀
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26/02/2024

Lay me next to her bones

05/01/2024