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Landfrauenband” is a project by Maurice de Martin in cooperation with JugendKunstSchule Frankenberg and Sächsischer Landfrauenverband e.V..

The first “Landfrauenband” album “Impromptus on a Prepared Piano” documents the exploration of the possibilities of experimental sound production with the help of a grand piano, which was prepared with screws, iron springs and erasers by contemporary pianist Reinhold Friedl (zeitkratzer) during a workshop. The owners of the instrument had a panic attack when they found out what we were planning to do to their grand piano, but then gave their consent when they learned that such preparation – if carried out professionally – is considered “normal” playing practice in contemporary music and at the same time it would most probably be the first time in Western music history, that a group of women from the countryside would play such music on such a prepared instrument, i.e. an instrument that had almost certainly only come into contact with the 3 B’s (Bach, Brahms, Beethoven) and the like in this place. The pieces are “Instant Compositions“, none of the artists had ever played on a prepared grand piano before. The four pieces are “first takes” and were recorded in a time span of 1.5 hours.

Produced by Maurice de Martin (zeitkratzer); prepared Piano Supervision Reinhold Friedl (zeitkratzer)

Schneider TM : new video

Here is a new video clip by Fuchs & Beckett for the Schneider TM track “The 8 Of Space” feat. Kptmichigan from the album “The 8 Of Space“ (Editions Mego 2021).

Schneider TM – LIVE in Italy – December 2023:

13.12. Trenta Formiche – Rome

14.12. Auditorium Novecento – Napoli

15.12. Caracol – Pisa

16.12. Teatro Miela – Trieste

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Tuesday Weld were formed around 1991 by Michael Beckett (kptmichigan, Super Reverb, etc.), Dirk Kretz, Bob Schätzle, and Haggy. At the time, the guys were influenced by Dinosaur Jr., SeBADoh, Hüsker Dü, Superchunk, and so on. Then a Norwegian horde called Motorpsycho came along and made it clear that a broader sense of musical taste means better music. It was also around this time that the guys began to dabble in electronic music, post-rock, and krautrock. Starscene ’98, their second and last album, was released by in 1998 Supermodern and contains the single Less Complicated, whose brilliant and self-directed video clip ran in heavy rotation on the German music TV station Viva at the time.

Tuesday Weld at MWM

ANGELICUS : Approach

LP / CD / DL released by Improved Sequence

Angelicus is Werner Zappi Diermaier (faust), Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM), Ilpo Väisänen (Pan sonic) and John Duncan (LAFMS).

Angelicus formed remotely during the Covid pandemic, with a recording project Approach released on CD and LP by Improved Sequence.  Their first live performances used songs from the release to build entirely fresh, unique sets, surpassing the highest expectations from these masters of improvised electronic sound.

Werner Zappi Diermaier (drums and percussion) is the legendary founding member of Faust.

Dirk Dresselhaus (guitar and effects) performs solo as Schneider TM, as a duo with Ilpo Väisänen (die Angel), and in a number of one-off projects ranging from stage to radio to television with guests ranging from Hildur Guðnadóttir, Oren Ambarchi, Jochen Arbeit, and Damo Suzuki to Tomoko Nakasato, Lillevan, Reinhold Friedl, and a host of others, all stellar artists.

Ilpo Väisänen (electronics) is a founding member of Pan sonic and die Angel.  His visual artwork is seen on the cover of the Angelicus: Approach CD and LP release by Improved Sequence.

John Duncan (vocals, lyrics, shortwave) is a member of LAFMS, the Los Angeles Free Music Society. Duncan’s legacy ranges from performance and art installations to pirate radio and television, Japanese noise and beyond.  He has recorded and performed with AIRWAY, Oren Ambarchi, Chris&Cosey, Coro Arcanto, Cristiano Deison, faust, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Hijokaidan, Eiko Ishibashi, Zbigniew Karkowski, Merzbow, Jim O’Rourke, Phew, Stefano Pilia and zeitkratzer, as well as many others living and otherwise.

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Hip Young Things

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Deflowered (1992)

Root’n Varies (1993)

With these two re-releases, which have never been audible on the Internet before, we are digging deep into the beginnings of the MWM cosmos:

Between 1988 and 1997, Hip Young Things became one of the most significant Indie Rock bands from Germany and toured extensively around Europe at the time, releasing four regular albums on Glitterhouse Records and sharing bills with the likes of Codeine, Gumball, The Ramones, Motorpsycho, Beck, The Cramps, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Tuesday Weld, Speed Niggs, Rein Sanction, Daft Punk, and many others.

Not always critically acclaimed for their at times rather idiosyncratic, experimental, (deadpan) humorous, yet emotive artistic tendencies, which stood somewhat in contrast to their Anglo-American musical influences but underlined their personal take on contemporary alternative rock and pop music, John Peel, for example, outed himself as a fan of the song ‘Long Brown Eyes’ from an early demo cassette tape and gave it some airplay on the BBC. But maybe later, more on this in the future at MWM if the universe allows…

Hip Young Things at MWM

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This is the first Angel album, which was recorded in Berlin in 2000 at their second ever live appearance, curated by Ran Huber (amSTARt) as an audio-visual performance in conjunction with video works by Videogeist, and was originally released as a CD by BiP_HOp in 2002. It features improvisations by Ilpo Väisänen on typewriter, effects, and CD player and Dirk Dresselhaus on electric guitar, effects, and tube amp.

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This is a 6-track EP from 1997 containing “electrosonic dance version” reworks of previous LOCUST FUDGE material, which were produced together with Mario Thaler and Martin Gretschmann (The Notwist, Console, etc.) in 1996 at Uphon Studios, Weilheim; a cover version of The Notwist’s “Our Alien” featuring The Locust Fudge Band, recorded in Prague while the band was touring around Europe at the time; and a 4-track cassette home recording version of Schneider’s song “Green.”

von Özlem Özgül Dündar / Regie: Claudia Johanna Leist / Komposition: Schneider TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) / Dramaturgie: Gerrit Booms / Produktion: WDR / Länge: 53’28‘‘ / Erstsendung: 18.04.2020

Podcast / Download: https://ww.darstellendekuenste.de/id-2020-224.html

Das intensive Hörspiel wurde von der Deutschen Akademie der Darstellenden Künste zum Hörspiel des Jahres 2020 ernannt. Es erzählt vom Brandanschlag von Solingen 1993 und von den betroffenen Menschen. Wie lässt sich sowas erfassen?

Am 29. Mai 1993 kommen in Solingen fünf Menschen türkischer Abstammung bei einem Brandanschlag ums Leben. Eine von ihnen ist Gürsün İnce, die sich für ihre dreijährige Tochter opfert, als sie mit ihr aus dem Fenster springt. Das Hörspiel gibt ihr eine Stimme. Ihr und weiteren Frauen: die Mutter eines mutmaßlichen Täters, eine zweite Tote und eine Überlebende, sie alle kreisen in Gedanken um die Katastrophe und das Leben mit dem Schmerz. Der Fenstersprung, die Angst vor dem Feuer und das Schweigen, bis die Polizei eintrifft: Die Frauen bleiben in ihrem Erleben gefangen und suchen trotzdem nach Austausch, Begegnung und der Möglichkeit eines Gesprächs.