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.
Temperature's rising, rising, not so fast, but a little, summer's here again, as well as new remix:
Temperature's Rising (451 And Rising Remix)
Albeit it's not representative sunny summer hit but rather little ambient piece featuring small elements taken from original version markedly slowed down and some other dirty tricks. Plus intro and outro one could make an infinite loop from whole track thanks to them. Download this remix free at my web http://mirage.freeoda.com
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Insanity!, the most experimental track I've ever released now in my play list! Convince yourself! search for thing overly strangely named
"Going Slightly Mad (Nuthouse Excursion)"
Bunch of drastically remixed raw guitar samples, few trips from left channel to right one and back, few strange samples taken from somewhere, high dynamic range, no verse nor chorus, curious rhythms, weird sound, everything madly mixed together as a result of new production technology and or momentary mania! If you've ever heard something more experimental, though I am not truly sure what does it mean, let me know! Any other feedback is always welcomed (of course, all those negative comments will be deleted immediately)!
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Im
März des Jahres 2009 brannte das De Prins in Essen aus. Jenes
Etablissement hatten Stefan und Michael bis dahin als eine
Verlängerung ihrer eigenen Wohnungen begriffen und fühlten sich
somit durch die notgedrungene Schließung desselben empfindlich
gestört. Das Lied "De Prins" produzierten sie, um den
Verantwortlichen Mut zur Wiedereröffnung zu machen und somit eine
Lücke im Essener Nachtleben möglichst schnell wieder zu
schließen.
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
