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13
Sep

Yasmine Tourist – The Blue Moon EP

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My friends from YASMINE TOURIST have sent me three tracks which are taken from “The Blue Moon” EP which will be uploaded on MySpace as final version on Monday, September 14th. I know these guys since my school days, especially mastermind Dominik Gerwald, so it was a pleasure to write something about their new songs. The version I had a chance to listen to is still the unmastered version. But anyway it sounds almost perfect due to Johnny Park from Submarien who was acting as recording engineer.

The first track is the title track “Blue Moon” with a very positive attitude – just guitars, voice and brushes. This is an approach to country music which I did not expect but without loosing the alternative music basis. The lyrics are very encouraging, the steel guitars give the feeling of freedom. To the end the song is somehow getting to a climax. First there are hardly drums but in the end there is a groovy and driving rythm and a piano / steel guitar solo with a typical country ending. “Pour yourself” is quite different with a very unique vocal line which is emphasized by a piano from time to time. Yearning lyrics are expressed by the music – again becoming more and more heavy with even electric guitars at the end and uprising vocals. But this time the song has a kind of break which ends in a great guitar solo before the song tranquilly dies away. The last song with the amazing title “Neon coloured” is spreading a melancholic mood with just a little percussion in the back. This could be a soundtrack to a Tarantino movie. I can see a man walking a road – lonely but still with strength. Again, the song is escalating. After a calm break which is making room for sentimental vocals, kettledrums are dominating over underlaying ambient synthesizers and voices whispering in the background. Crescendo – and it is over…

Conclusion: A unique alternative / songwriter band is coming the way with really outstanding piano parts, steel guitars and some unique vocal lines. So if you are interested in quite unconventional alternative music you should check out their MySpace page on Monday.

YASMINE TOURIST on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/yasminetourist

I will put up another review fom this genre the next week – FLORIAN OSTERTAGs “The Constant Search” (Jens from Maria Records was nice enough to send it to me the last days).

30
Aug

August, 29th – Pforzheim, Rockstüble – Those 22 Coltsuckers, Inner Strenx, Läberknecht

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I am still suffering from a heavy hangover. Yesterday was more than just a simple concert. This was our way to say goodbye to a friend who passed away in a tragic accident at the beginning of the year.

But first was a football match which I wanted to see in the stadium (VfB Stuttgart vs. 1 FC Nürnberg). Of course this was already the time when the first beers had to be eliminited. The match was bad and the stadium looked kind of weired with a big hole on one side (they are currently tearing down and rebuilding one tribune after another). But it was fun to be there with some friends. Right after the stadium it was time for the concert. And it was a tribute – the last concert of the 22 Coltsuckers after their singer “Vadder” died in his car which caught fire in January. And the place was crowded with poeple who knew him not only as a musician but also as a friend.

We missed the first band LÄBERKNECHT because we had to pick up some people and of course because of the next beers. But we will have them at the METAL NIGHTS in December with BRESCHDLENG. So I will report about this band later this year.

I already saw INNER STRENX or shared the stage with them – I cannot remember. Guess it must have not been as good as yesterday. They put up a decent show with heavy groove metal. I did not see that much of them, actually, but the few songs I saw of them convinced me. They really rocked!

There was only one band this evening everybody was waiting for: THOSE TWENTY TWO COLTSUCKERS. They used changing singers this evening to replace Max. And hell yeah – it worked! This was heavy southern rock as dirty as it could be.  I was not able to hold back anymore and found myself in front of the stage all the time (except when I needed another beer – guess I poored half of it on other people this evening – but well I was not alone with that). Everybody was celebrating – the band was no longer the band on the stage – people came on stage, even poeple without any clothes but 22 COLTSUCKERS stickers on their intimacy. Everybody was drinking heavily, beer was sprayed all over the place and in the end there were some people (from the audience) laying on the stage – totally done. At the end noone cared about reason, all restraint was gone. I remember me standing arm in arm with a close friend (who was also really close to Max) in front of the stage rocking our butts off. I wish that this moment would have lasted forever… This was a decent way to say farewell to a friend. His former girlfriend (also the mother of his son) came on stage and thanked everyone for the support. This was a heavy moment – no way to resist the need to cry.

I was both happy and mournful after this last live event. So I had a lot more beers with some friends. My head reminds me today – obviously it was too much alcohol…

Rest in peace, brother!

02.04.1976 – 07.01.2009

THOSE 22 COLTSUCKERS homepage / myspace page: http://www.coltsuckers.de

28
Aug

August, 27th – Stuttgart, Merlin – Ikarisches Ensemble

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As promised this is a new update.

After a short night and some usual work it was time for another very special live event. Having packed some parcels for the mailorder I went Stuttgart downtown to a club, Merlin, where usually a lot more softer artists show up on stage. This time IKARISCHES ENSEMBLE claimed the boards that mean the world. I met up with some friends there and we had a relaxed beer first in the beautiful garden of the club. But then the band plugged in their guitars…

The music and live appearance is really hard to describe. You see a three piece, a drummer, a bass player and a very skinny guitar player who is also doing the insane vocals from time to time. As you can read on their homepage the band interpretes classical compositions which are writing for totally different instruments like piano in a very own, new way, transformed to drums, guitars and even vocals. But they also use these parts as basis for own compositions. All in all the music sounds very maniac, really insane and is very hard to follow. Some cues of the instruments even seem to be totally random – but be sure they are NOT. The only band that comes up to my mind when being ask how this sounds like is Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, but less fluently, with a bit more Jazz influences, less vocals and without any visual support (a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum show must be more like a theatre play I guess). A highlight was definitively a five piece interpretation of a composition which was transformed as described above. I did not understand the name of the composition unfortunately. But it had a weired timing and beeing musician myself I know how hard it must be to play this very staccato music in the right timing. Plus the band did it sight-read from a partiture.

Unfortunately the band has played more new songs this day which are lacking of vocals. But the encore was an old song which really works well live and you can even almost bang your head (which of course noone does on Jazz concerts, hehe).  I guess that most of the people attending this (free!) show were musicians or at least very into music, so they gave the artists a round of applause and went kind of enthusiastic when the band left the stage to get them back for the encore.

Conclusion: This was a very special evening, with very special music in a very special club. Something different to all the metal and rock shows I usually attend.

After the show I went straight home to build up a new bed – seems like an unnessecary side-note? Well this was kind o hard to do alone and the night went off… so not much sleep again.

IKARISCHES ENSEMBLE homepage: http://www.ikarisches-ensemble.de

IKARISCHES ENSEMBLE song samples:

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Nécrologue à l’innocence
 (2004)

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Ewige Wiederkunft
 (2004)

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Gnomus
(2005)

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