Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MWM live ::: series :
Border River (Live At Betonhalle) is a live interpretation of Border River, one of the pieces from the faust album „Daumenbruch“ that was initiated by Werner “Zappi” Diermaier during COVID-19 lockdown times in 2021 together with a shimmering cast of musicians including fellow Faust founding member Gunther Wüsthoff, members of Einstürzende Neubauten, stadtfischflex, Schneider TM and others.
This is the second part of the ongoing MWM live – release series on MirrorWorldMusic that features live recordings of diverse projects and bands from around the world. The aim is to keep and release the music in its purest form, including all its possible imperfections, so as not to lose the power and spirit of the original performance through any kind of artificial post-production.
MWM live and MWM rough, another series featuring instant recordings and mixes from the studio ZONE, are exclusively available as downloads at MirrorWorldMusic bandcamp and later on as streaming on all preferred platforms as well as on occasional physical formats. By purchasing at MWM, you are directly supporting all involved artists.
PROMO: heythere@mirrorworldmusic.com
LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com
“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)
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
Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MWM live ::: series :
The Shape of Minds to Come
feat. John Duncan / Chandra Shukla / Schneider TM / Scot Jenerik / Thomas Dimuzio
An exquisitely improvised, uninterrupted pilgrimage through the stations of the mind. Performed & recorded live during The Shape of Minds to Come Tour on May 7th 2023 at The Lab, San Francisco.
Live onstage: Chandra Shukla playing sitar and effects. Scot Jenerik playing saz baglama and shortwave with effects. Schneider TM playing guitar, effects, Strega, Lyra 8, objects and vocals. John Duncan with vocals, objects and shortwave. + guest: Thomas Dimuzio playing Buchla 200e and processing.
This is the second release of two ongoing release series on MirrorWorldMusic that feature recordings of live concerts from around the world (MWM live) as well as unedited rough mixes of live sessions performed and recorded at the studio ZONE in Berlin (MWM rough). The aim is to keep and release the music in its purest form, including all its possible imperfections, so as not to lose the power and spirit of the original performance through any kind of artificial post-production.
The MWM rough and MWM live series are exclusively available as downloads at MirrorWorldMusic bandcamp and later on as streaming on all preferred platforms as well as on occasional physical formats. By purchasing at MWM, you are directly supporting all involved artists.
PROMO: heythere@mirrorworldmusic.com
LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com
Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MWM rough ::: series :
krautfuzz
This trio started out playing improvisational fuzzkraut-ish 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 loud, time-transcending music without a safety net and 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, and is open at the fringes.
“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).
Next live show: 23. March 2024 – 20/21CET – Urban Spree, Berlin
krautfuzz + iLan (live video) + special guest
video: ilan katin / music: krautfuzzThis is the first of two ongoing release series on MirrorWorldMusic that feature unedited rough mixes of live sessions performed and recorded at the studio ZONE in Berlin (MWM rough), as well as recordings of live concerts from around the world (MWM live). The aim is to keep and release the music in its purest form, including all its possible imperfections, so as not to lose the power and spirit of the original performance through any kind of artificial post-production, which can be understood as a statement against fear and current trends of exaggerated self-optimization.
The MWM rough and MWM live series are exclusively available as downloads at MWM bandcamp and later on as streaming on all preferred platforms as well as on occasional physical formats. By purchasing at MWM, you are directly supporting all involved artist.
PROMO: heythere@mirrorworldmusic.com
LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com
Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MirrorWorldMusic Archives ::: project :
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.
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.
LIVE BOOKING: booking@mirrorworldmusic.com
Now available at bandcamp as part of the ::: MirrorWorldMusic Archives ::: project :
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…
