Franz Kirmann’s music can be described as organic and atmospheric, but always melodic. Having a background as a film editor, Franz applies the same principles and technique, treating sounds and melodies like celluloid, making a collage of sounds and textures whose juxtaposition creates a sense of melancholy and spleen.
Franz Kirmann was raised in Senegal, on the West African’s coast and then moved to Strasbourg, France in his teens where he started playing in various new wave and noise bands, first as a keyboard player and then as a singer.
In the early 21st century he moved to London to study filmmaking, graduating 3 years later with an MA in the arts and technique of filmmaking.
Finding himself with too little time to start a band, he began to make music on his own with the help of a computer and gaining confidence in his compositions, started to play in different clubs and bars on the London electronica scene.
After gigging monthly at minimal label Multivitamins’ night in Shoreditch, he released a track on their netlabel Multi. The track stands out as a rare atmospheric downtempo composition on the label’s mostly minimal techno roster.
In 2007 he released a limited edition 3” CD ep entitled “Mémoires/scars” for Hong Kong experimental label Lona records.
Franz is currently putting finishing touches to his forthcoming album Random Access Memories on Lobe Records coming out in Spring 2009
