Berlin-based musician, producer, and writer F.S.Blumm shares Wellen Formen, his second solo album on LEITER. A revered mainstay of the German underground for decades, he’s released numerous LPs across experimental and electronic labels over the past twenty-five years, yet seems to have now found a true home for his signature sound: sublime instrumental arrangements, long melodic lines, acoustic timbres, and subtly sculpted atmospheres — contemporary chamber music with one foot firmly planted in minimalism.
Music needs room to breathe. Wellen Formen is built from many such rooms. The recordings took place in a rehearsal space, a studio, a hotel room, and even a storage closet. There was, however, one rule: ‘Saal 3 of Funkhaus Berlin must appear in every piece.’ This remarkable studio already features in Blumm’s work on ‘Mohnschicht’ from his 2000 EP Bettvanille Weiter. He also fell in love with its reverberation while recording his fictional radio feature about the enigmatic sound artist Rainer Sandmann. The circle closed once more when Nils Frahm and Blumm recently produced their fifth duo album, Handling, in the same room. Wellen Formen itself opens in Saal 3 with ‘Rheinfeld Trainride,‘ where a lithophone — a stone-bar xylophone whose sound lies somewhere between wood and metal — introduces the piece, performed by Manuel Chittka.
Wellen Form will be out on Leiter on 22 May 2026.