a million kinds of wave, madonna, roxy music with brian eno, velvet underground, david bowie, hugo wolff, can, neu, kraftwerk, la duesseldorf, siouxsie, kylie minogue, patti smith, marlene dietrich, jessye norman, grace jones, mahalia jackson, the mississippi swamps, jean lafitte, pink floyd, king crimson, yellow magic orchestra, charlie parker, lester young, albert ayler, ornette coleman, j.w. von goethe, fritz lang, jean luc godard,jean-pierre melville, antonioni, MARIANNE FAITHFUL, lale andersen (lili marleen), serge gainsbourg, juliette greco, miles davis, georges moustaki, simone de beauvoir, jean paul sartre, michel foucault, jean baudrillard, louise bourgeois, josephine baker, josephine de beauharnais, shostakovich, yves montant, psychic tv, chris and cosey, pil, black uhuru, yellowman, blondie, donna summer, luchino visconti, romy schneider, r.w. fassbinder, tabea blumenschein, patricia highsmith, nico, susan cadogan, phyllis dillon, the selector, boney m, labelle, nona hendryx, amanda lear, lil' kim, t-rex, micheal jackson, coltrane, sun ra, abba, esg, james chance, tuxedo moon, iggy pop, dark day, mina, garland silk, picasso, baccarra, dean martin and frank sinatra, anais nin, mahavischnu orchestra, swimming pools, charlotte rampling, gary oldman, turkish pop, bat cave, babaji, deathrock, our past lives in pompeii, lust, life, the ocean
Sounds Like
"Possibly the best concert of the year" - Paris
"Street theatre and grand opera at the same time" -Richard Fantina, The East Village Eye, NYC
"Symbiotic and Erotic"- Ressurection, Amsterdam
Live in San Francisco Sep 2006 (Silent)
Live in Salerno 2005 Performing Bettina Koster's "Crime Don't Pay"
Live in Salerno 2005 Performing Malaria's "Thrash Me"
In 2005 Jessie Evans moved to Berlin. Then, like a personal ad from God in an alternate universe, she met Bettina Koster, singer from the pioneering, John Peel-beloved post-punk band Malaria!. In 2006 the vox/sax duo released the self titled album AUTONERVOUS.
This recent album mixes two undergrounds, Berlin 1980 (Koster) and San Francisco 2000 (Evans). There's an Amanda Lear cover ("Gold"), a German-language reworking of the Vanishing's "Still Lifes" ("Still Kaltes") and, natürlich, lyrics about love 'n chains.
The album was recorded at Fraulelein Studio in Berlin, mixed and mastered by Ingo Krauss at Lost in Space Berlin. Musically it is very unique and cannot be easily categorized, with influences ranging from pop, new wave, rocksteady, krautrock, latin, disco, deathrock, film and free jazz. Both women sing and play saxophone and have created the sound organically, so even though it is electronic its much more natural; the atmosphere is loose yet gripping, inviting visitors to come closer - like they want to catch you in their web but once they do they will shower you with kisses and if youre lucky throw you on the floor. Bettina has a very low and sultry voice, Jessie's voice is a snake who cries out and laughs in between wrapping around the solid yet off tempo timing of Bettina's.
If it is too easy to say that the lyrics are mostly about love, getting together, and lust in general, to touch, to reach out of our cages, that what we have been induced into or reduced to isn't necessary. Then listen: "We can break these chains, we can skin this cat" "You don't have to wait to come outside, we know you'll feel better in the light."
Live, from stoic to a wild shimmying extravaganza, a deranged cabaret experience' they will always dare the audience to break out of their perceptions, to see something they may be afraid to see.
In 'Still Kaltes' Bettina rewrites Jessie's song 'Still Lifes' from Vanishing, in the dark dance track 'Anchors Aweigh' Bettina sings "I was the object of so many desires, but now Im stranded on this beach" to which Jessie replies "You're not a mute and you know how to move it!"
As the two are so different the interaction on stage is sometimes like the old comedy duos, as playful as it can be serious. The music is also very theatrical, taking the listener deep into surreal and unexpected places with each track. 'Sax New Age' is an industrial jungle that exudes sensuality, 'Hello Lovers' playground pop which might as well have been sung by the children in Fritz Langs M, 'Gold', a remake of the Amanda Lear hit from the 70s. 'Prescription', a dark and dizzying film piece, 'Easter Bunny' a Brazilian techno acid trip. 'Why Shiver', a slow ride into the wild, saxophones like birds screeching mysterious invitations for thrills to come.
While AUTONERVOUS is no longer preforming as a duo, both Jessie Evans and Bettina Koster are currently at work on their solo albums..
Hi Friends, our new CHOCOLATE EP is out now. To celebrate this we produced a new mixtape for you to download. Copy and paste the link below to download and have fun... the monkeys http://soundcloud.com/whatwhatrecords/monkey-safari-roll-on/download
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lokai + B.Breuer at the rhiz - cd/lp presentation thrill jockey 219 / location: Rhiz / Vienna / Austria / date: 18.11.2009 / time: 21.30 / line up: Florian Kmet (git) / Stefan Németh (synthi, sampler) + special guest: Bernhard Breuer (drums) / / / new Video by machfeld: http://www.machfeld.net/film/banska/mov.html link to lokai at Thrill Jockey: http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/index.html?id=10091
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