krautfuzz

This trio started out playing improvisational fuzzkraut sessions in November 2022 after Imari Kokubo (drums), Dirk Dresselhaus (guitar, voice), and Derek Shirley (bass) had unavailingly planned to hook up with each other individually for a couple of years. As each of them is involved in an extended variety of music (Vladislav Delay Quartet, die ANGEL, Schneider TM, faust, Piratezombiedog, Monno, The Still, Hi- Speed Dubbing, etc.), the premise is to boil down stylistic concepts to their essence by playing energetic, dynamic, and time-transcending music without a safety net while giving some extra attention to communication in-between each other as well as to the individual subconsciousness.

krautfuzz is embossed by an angular-futuristic tension, spanning from fuzzed-out neo-psych-rock to abstract, heavily processed minimalism to pure noise, and is open at the fringes, which also means that they like to invite surprise guests from diverse musical backgrounds to collaborate with in their live shows, like e.g. Murat Ertel (Baba Zula), experimental sax-player André Vida, Eleni Poulou (ex-The Fall) & Hilary Jeffery (zeitkratzer), Xambuca’s Chandra Shukla on processed e-sitar, or J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.).

krautfuzz is not yet another “krautrock” band. Their intention is to marry the progressiveness and tradition of krautrock with modern concepts of improvisation, collaboration, the utilization of noise, ambience, minimalism and to break the formulaic monotony of rock and roll while still utilizing it’s vehicles as prescribed by Lou Reed (guitar, bass and drums). The use of heavy fuzz, other effects and the three distinctly unique musical backgrounds combine to form a very unique delivery overall. krautfuzz’s conquest is to overcome the repetition and dregs of rehearsal as every note iterated by them is a raw instinctual impulse that can only stem from improvising everything and compromising nothing.

"Does anything really begin or end? What is time? A period of time. What does that mean? Re-create and re-visit, but time always moves forward. Never stopping. Always changing. Sound goes and goes and goes. This moment is a forward motion." (Ilse Redeka)