Fit & Limo
Discolor
Fim Froil
Weltraumservice
The God Box
Pure Luege
Discolor is the the electric/electronic solo path of Limo unlike the folk escapades of Fit & Limo.. When the Shiny Gnomes disbanded in 1997 Limo has a vision: Discolor. This is the vehicle to continue the Ambient- and drone experiments of the late Shiny Gnomes. Beside Limo on special instruments (guitar, bass, analog synthesizer, organ, sitar, piano ….) guests contribute again and again (Ufo, Hanz, Gasi, Julia Freitag, Robert Jandaschka, Zattl, Theresa L, Mrs. Fit, Hanna Pietzcker….). The uncoloured and colourless in the name Discolor stands for White Noise one of the main principles of Discolor: With adapted and alienated guitars plus analog key-instruments soundscapes spread out, melodic noise and fragile effects fill the room and meet fragments of songs and unknown new textures. The development of Discolor goes with more abstract Ambient on the 1st album to more songlike structures on “III” The projected 4th Discolor album was cancelled for a new band and album: The God Box “Psymphonettes”. Unreleased and new recordings by Discolor should be released in late 2004/early 2005.
Discography:
Discolor (CD) 1997 September Gurls Records
Tracklist : 1.Rays 2.Primal Shift 3.Wind Comes 4.Sunflash 5.Thödol Dub 6.And Swam In Bliss 7.Flying (On A Scheme By Hanz) 8.Figuring Structures ´75 9.Meret O'Clock 10.In My Room
Review :
“And what kind of misleading cover have we got here? Looking at the CD in front of me I expected a some kind of 3th division Dance Floor Techno act, but a look at the label convinced me that Discolor´s same titled album must be something special…after all it comes on September Gurls. The opening bars promised somebody I was familiar with and a closer look at the inside cover confirmed that German psych veteran Limo was involved. And as the Frank clique of psychsetrs have long been synonymous for outstanding psychedelia and extraordinary space sounds so is Discolor. This album trundles like a space ship with its rockets cut off and you can almost see the crew lounging in their cabins gaping at the astonishing gliding past close and wide. They´ve got all the time of the world, and an inner calmness will inevitably result if you choose to come along with them. My partner has been playing music of the relaxing kind recently after strenuous days and I immediately added this album to her small collection. Roll down the shutters, put some night glow stars at the ceiling and lie on your bed for an hour of anti-depressive music.” (Hartbeat)
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Soundbath Installation (Cd) 1999 September Gurls Records
Tracklist : 1.Colorsound 2.Stream Of Consciousness 3.Sea Of Tunes 4.Vex 5.Sharon 6.Sustaining Halo 7.Blue Passage 8.Cetacea 9.Vista Unit III 10.Little Spirit
Review :
“Observant Broken Face readers will probably recall our quite favourable review of Fit&Limo´s recent The Serpent Unrolled LP. Discolor is Mr. Limo´s side project which at a first glance doesn´t recall much of said bands´earthly acid folk qualities. Soundbath Installation puts the emphasis on gentle guitars hovering around impressive string and piano compositions, which brings a vague but delicate folk flavour not too many miles from the earlier work of Flying Saucer Attack. Stream of Consciousness sounds to me like Jessamine setting up their equipment in a haunted house and proceedeing to indulge in high quality psychedelics. Slightly experimental, dynamic but mostly nothing less than brilliant! Then there is the floating 11 minute long Farfisa meets guitar jam of Sea Of Tunes that never gets anywhere, but who cares as long as it´s this contemplative. Sharon is a delicious folk psychedelia number garnished with fuzzed guitar feedback while Sustaining Halo is a gently atmospheric not without obvious traces to the prime of German psych music history, early Can. It keeps drifting around the space craters for almost seven minutes before the lashing rain and howling wind of Cetacea completely takes over the show. Follow my example and plunge into the Soundbath Installation, unquestionably one of the best installations in soothing drone sounds I´ve yet had the pleasure to hear in the year 2000.” (Broken Face, Schweden)
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III (Cd) 2001 Mizmaze/Lizard
Tracklist : 1.Psychedelic Rain 2.Glass Keys To Open 3.As Light As A Feather 4.When I See You 5.And Wonder 6.Garden Fair 7.What Remains Of Her 8.Sparkle Plenty 9.Solar Bird 10.Sirius 11.El Strings
Review :
“I was intrigued enough by this one to invite Discolor to contribute a track to the compilation CD with this issue, since more is never enough when contemplating a bubbling cauldron of smoking psychedelic whimsy such as Discolor have seen fit to serve up. On III (their third album, unsurprisingly enough - the previous two having been released by September Gurls in the band´s native Nürnberg) all the promise of earlier releases merges seamlessly with the space-rock elements explored by main Colorist Stefan Limo Lienemann in his Shiny Gnomes alter-ego, the pop attitude of Fim Froil (an occasional project of Limo´s with Riff of The Cosmic Gardeners which resulted in the underrated Fim Froil CD on Stono back in ´97) and the mystical folk undercurrent of arguably his most interesting aggregation til now, Fit and Limo. Driven along in the main by echoing spirals of sitar drone underpinned by strings, Moog and humming, buzzing and spiked guitars, the psychedelic effects throughout are layered delicately like lacey underskirts; the pudding is never over-egged in other words, and on tracks like the opening Psychedelic Rain, the fourth cut When I See You, and the rhythmic drone of And Wonder, Discolor come pretty damn close to attaining a flowery nirvana. Far from being a side-project, Discolor show every indication of being Limo´s most perfectly realised, uh, limo yet.” (Ptolemaic Terrascope, UK)
