Klangbad festival line-up

Klangbad Festival announces the first bands which will play this year. Tickets available from the website

WIRE
Die Goldenen Zitronen
Red Snapper
Elektro Guzzi
AUDIAC
JOHN TCHICAI + ALEX WARD
LIMPE FUCHS
GUDRUN GUT
INGRID LAUBROCK + CHRISTIAN WOLFARTH
CHRISTY&EMILY + BAND
Z´EV AND THE BÄND
BOB RUTMAN
DIETER MOEBIUS + ASMUS TIETCHENS
FELIX KUBIN
OY
DJ MARCELLE/ANOTHER NICE MESS
DJ FETT

B.I.L.L. and Rutman CDs/LPS are now available

B.I.L.L. - Bell, Irmler, Liebezeit, Lippok.
Limited to 1000 copies. LP including full album on CD. Get it from Klangbad



Rutman Steel Cello Ensemble feat. Ginsberg, Hentz, Irmler.
Digipak and Download. Also from Klangbad

Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst artists

This years Avantgardefestival Schiphorst, hosted by Jean-Hervé Peron and his wife Carina Varain, takes place during the weekend 24-26th of June. The artists this year are as follows:

Faust (DMZ) .. :: OT :: (Hamburg) .. Aerosol (Berlin) .. Amaury Cambuzat (Italy/ France) .. Ax Genrich (Mannheim) .. DwanL (France) .. Birgit Uhler & Gregory Büttner (Hamburg) .. Black to Comm (Hamburg) .. Bornzero (Marburg) .. Das Unpreetzise Klang-Labor (Kiel) .. David Esparza (USA) .. derschlaeger (Austria/ Germany/ Switzerland) .. DimHunGer (Norway) .. DJ Silverwolf (Slovenia) .. Fall out Trio (Croatia) .. Günther Stolarz (Berlin) .. Halma (Hamburg) .. Hexenbrutal (Slovenia) .. Kakawaka (Berlin) .. Klaus Kinski (Wales) .. Lina Paul (Berlin) .. Linn Halsvorsrød (Norway) .. Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen & Tom Blancarte (USA/ Danmark) .. Macu (Austria) .. Majmoon (Bosnia) .. Margitt Holzt (Hamburg) .. Martiensgohome (Belgium) .. Meeting of the Spirits (Berlin/ London) .. Naco (France) .. Nathan Siter (Finnland) .. Neopostdadasurrealpunkshow (Hamburg) .. Passierzettel (Hamburg) .. Peter Nicholson (Scotland) .. Fahrenheit 2606 (France) .. Ronny Wærnes (Norway) .. Y+X=ER Y+X=ES (Italy) .. Somnambule (Kiel) .. Stadtfisch & Xyramat (Hamburg) .. The Ape (Hamburg) .. Toys'R'Noise (France) .. Triologue (Lübeck) .. Ved (Sweden) .. Wenzlovar (Berlin) ..

More info about the artists here

The programme will be announced on April the 10th.

Analog Love In Digital Times - Clouds Hill Vinylbox #2

The release of Clouds Hill Vinylbox #2 - Analog Love In Digital Times follows the immense success of the first box set.

The extremely limited nature of the previous box, only 100 copies, made it a particularly coveted and fast-selling collection. Analog Love In Digital Times is limited to an exclusive 200 copies, available from May 13th.

Every song in the vinyl box set was produced in the Clouds Hill studio and exclusively recorded for this compilation. Artists are Faust, Stella, The Ape, Michaela Meise, Stadtfischflex, Scams,Wyatt Derbyngton und Scheerer with exclusive remixes.

Klangbad festival tickets on sale

Klangbad Festival (05.-07.August 2011) has sold tickets for a while. Still available is the EARLY-BIRD 3-Day Festival Tickets: (from february 14th to April 30th 2011). After this the prices will be a bit higher.

Releases update from Klangbad

The forthcoming vinyl on Klangbad by B.I.L.L. - Bell, Irmler, Liebezeit, Lippok - Spielwiese 2, comes with handmade silkscreen cover. This release is the second part of the project called "Spielwiese Scheer". The idea behind this is to invite different musicians into the Faust Studio for one week. The artists themselves have this time only played one show together before. A special treat for those ordering from the website is a CD with the full album on. Kat no Klangbad 53LP. Out 15th of April.

The details for Bob Rutman´s Steel Cello Ensemble feat. Ginsberg, Hentz, Irmler is also ready. It will be a CD in digipack and download. Recorded also in Faust Studio, Irmler appears with his organ end effects. Klangbad 48CD/Digipak/Download. Out 29th of April.

Poème Pour Bétonière et Orchestre - trailer

Projection for Poème Pour Bétonière et Orchestre by art-errorist Jean-Hervé Péron. Made by Irina Frederich and Uwe Bastiansen. The sound is original live-sound. See stadtfischfilm.com

Le piano fatigué - trailer

The complete trailer of the movie "le piano fatigué" with Bagio and Jean-Hervé, by Uwe Bastiansen. Including chinese subtitels. Available from stadtfischfilm.com

Something Dirty Review by Was Ist Das

The wonderful, something out of the ordinary Krautrock site Was Ist Das has already done a wonderful, and somewhat special review of Something Dirty. The album is out later this month, and you can get it from your local retailer, or make sure that they provide a copy for you. Will be available as CD, LP and download. Also, check out the preview on soul seduction.

Faust / Band Of Pain 'John Cage - Radio Music'

Jean Hervé and Zappi teams up with Steve Pittis for this new vinyl release by Dirter. From the website:

John Cage composed the piece "Radio Music" in 1956. It is scored in 8 parts (A-H) with each part to be performed either individually or together with other parts as an ensemble. The performers follow a score that is a sequence of radio frequency tunings and silent parts. Obviously, each time the piece is performed, it yields a different end result. We present here 4 solo versions on this limited edition 10" EP. The works are performed by members of German legends, Faust and by Steve Pittis' project, Band Of Pain. All tracks were recorded live in the studio with absolutely no overdubs.

The 10" vinyl EP is packaged in a superb gloss laminated sleeve and is strictly limited to 500 copies.

Klangbad Festival announces dates

This years Klangbad Festival in Scheer, Germany, takes place from the 5th to the 7th of August. Advance tickets go on sale on the 14th of February from klangbad.de and this will probably be the only solution for this year, as there will be no box office for tickets. But as usual the sleepy, pittoresque appearing village of Scheer invites you to a musical provocative, avantgardistic-innovative journey, packed with surprises, crossing various genres.

Upcoming releases of Hans Joachim Irmler

Klangbad announces forthcoming releases by Irmler:

Spielwiese Scheer 2 - B.I.L.L. - Bell, Irmler, Liebezeit, Lippok - Vinyl - March 2011
Christian Wolfarth & H.J.Irmler - Vinyl - April 2011
Bob Rutman Steel Cello Ensemble - Rutman, Ginsberg, Hentz, Irmler - CD - April 2011
Spielwiese Scheer 3 - FM Einheit+Irmler+Katherine Young+Ute-Marie Paul - Vinyl - September 2011

Something Dirty news

The official release date is set to the 28th of January 2011. The cover artwork is as you see it here also. The bureau b releases website offers mp3 music samples also.

From the releases website:

FAUST
something dirty. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Jan 28, 2011

The living Krautrock legend Faust, around for over 40 years now, have recorded a new album! Jean-Hervé Peron, Zappi W. Diermaier (both founding members), James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), and Gerladine Swayne (...Bender) have come up with another archetypical Faust album: inspiring, innovative, unpredictable, crossing boundaries, anarchic – Faustian! "something dirty" is a definitive milestone in the long history of this world-famous musical institution from Hamburg.

Tracklisting:

01. Tell the Bitch to go Home
02. Herbststimmung
03. Something Dirty
04. Thoughts of the Dead
05. Lost the Signal
06. Je Bouffe
07. Whet
08. Invisible Mending
09. Dampfauslass 1
10. Dampfauslass 2
11. Pythagoras
12. Save the Last One
13. La Sole Dorée

71 Minutes on 180 g Double LP Vinyl

ReR Megacorp continues to re-release limited edition Faust on heavy vinyl. This time it is the collection of early recordings that was compiled from "lost" and unreleased material, originally released as “Munich & Elsewhere” as well as most of the unreleased "Faust Party 3" LP. Finally out as a double LP, 71 Minutes is the second in a series of reissues of Faust on limited edition 180 gram HQ vinyl. Available here

Nice article on early Faust

Read about the 70s album, and

"the ways in which the band's avant-garde self-image continues to cover up the ways in which their creative output was tied to social and political questions that faced Germany in the wake of the generational upheaval of the late 1960s. Supported, in part, by original interviews with three of Faust's founding members, this article then broadly re-examines the band's subtle social attentiveness that is often buried beneath musical experimentations and extra-musical reflections. In the end, one can therefore conclude that Faust's until now overlooked politics of the unpolitical constituted a musical project aimed to question the status quo and Germany's inability to confront its past adequately."

Link >> Koch, Arne and Harris, Sei 'The Sound of Yourself Listening: Faust and the Politics of the Unpolitical', Popular Music and Society, 32:5, 579 - 594