Alex Paulick - electronics, bass, lap steel
Robert Taylor - vocals
live we are joined by:
Fabian Kalker - guitar
Markus Lang - organ
William Rust - wackerchicker guitar
Min Stiller - keyboards/backing vocals
Sebastian Vogel - drums
For the Love's Recurring Dream sessions we were augmented by:
Nolan Churn - drums
Rusty Miller - dry electric guitar, marimba, organ
Dave Brockman - Wurlitzer, Hammond organ, piano
Ben Fargen - electric guitar atmospherics
Chris Ross - realtime effects, synthesizer
Benedikt Filleböck - harpsichord
Gabriele Jüttner - vibraphone
Hayden Chisholm - bass clarinet, clarinet
Michael Pappagallo - clarinet, bass clarinet
Kim Witt - oboe
Marian Haste - backing vocals
Anna Wren - backing vocals
Coloma is the collaboration between singer/lyricist Robert Taylor and producer/composer Alex Paulick. Though originally from England, the two spent a period of musical education and discovery in Cologne, Germany, where Taylor is still based. Paulick flits between Cologne, Berlin, the UK and his teenage home in California (a few miles from Coloma). This geographical caprice is without doubt one key to the Coloma sound.
Coloma’s debut "Silverware" (2002, Ware Records) was widely praised for its rare combination of emotive songwriting and minimal electronics. The follow-up, "Finery" (2003) solidified Coloma’s reputation for finely crafted sophisti-pop. The album was received with enthusiasm internationally. In 2004 Coloma won the "Espoir" prize at the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in Paris.
Coloma’s third album "Dovetail" (2005) found the duo taking an unexpected step away from electronic sound, in exchange for a collage of edited real-time performances, guest musicians – even a horn section. And once again, "Dovetail" was an intriguing pop-hybrid, characterized by the Taylor/Paulick approach to songwriting. Thanks to Coloma's dedicated and surprisingly large following enough online votes were cast to ensure the album also won a Qwartz award - this time "Best Album" - and that same year a panel of judges awarded Coloma the "Qwartz Artiste" prize.
Coloma's fourth long player will be released on 23 February 2009 on Italic. Entitled "Love's Recurring Dream", it is a song cycle with recurring harmonic and rhythmic themes. Lyrically, the album is a narrative chronicling the phases of a romance, which symbolically runs over the course of a year. In the twelve songs, singer Robert Taylor follows the progress of the seasons from spring, summer and autumn to winter, with the implicit promise that a new spring will follow. For the recording, a group of musicians was assembled in San Francisco for improvisational sessions that make up the body of the album. Precise editing by producer Alex Paulick brings coherence to these spontaneous takes, with performances ebbing and flowing between rather loose and artificially tight. Prior to the release of Love's Recurring Dream, Coloma played a triumvirate of live shows with a six-piece band – watch this space for further live dates.
alex, sehr schön, dich mal persönlich kennen gelernt zu haben ! hoffe wir haben mal die ehre auch mit euch spielen zu dürfen. lieben gruss aus osnabrück stephan
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Hey!!!! It's been quite some time since I last logged into this strange place... I did it only to add Narrow Bridges to my Friends (the true ones, not the ones for show). And I couldn't help stopping by to say this: Love's Recurring Dream is a MASTERPIECE. I haven't stopped listening to it since I got it. It's soooooooooooo good. I had said to Alex that "Do you know what it is yet?" was one of my picks for track of the year. Now I'm not so sure. "Blue blood" is a close contender! Tip to anyone reading this: BUY LOVE'S RECURRING DREAM NOW!!!!! You will not regret it! Thank you guys for such great music! All the best! kauf
Es geht ravig weiter im Luxor nach dem uns letzten Samstag CLP(BoysNoizeRec/Shitkatapult)mit ihrem Sound den Abend versüßten, wird es Samstag den 10.10 Zero Cash (TelevisionRocks)sein der uns mit seinem Liveset in den Wahnsinn treibt.
Unterstützung bekommt er von MODIGITAL (KingKongRec./Lovementrec.) der gerade mit eigenem Label und seiner EP für aufsehen sorgt.
Nicht zu vergessen die BananaBros. aka Scrounger und DrunkenMonkey die monatlich mit ihrer Party Banana Split die Leute zum ausrasten bringen.
Hi Coloma! Maybe you are interested to know that my album Robotism is finally available on iTunes and JunoDownload. On the album you will find all the tracks you might have heard on my MySpace-player and some more. Are you looking to buy new music that makes you want to dance and which will work really well at your next party? Just go to my page and you will find the links :)
