only me. its my ego trip. theresa. the golden diskó ship.
Influences
restlessness/boredom. chocolate. first takes, peaceful hangovers, lakes, trees, streets, bad weather, swimming pools.
besides, everything ive ever heard or played is an influence i guess..hm. chronologically:
singing loudly in the pram and for my deaf greatgrandfather, glockenspiel in kindergartentime, viola and classical music, orchestras, string quartets, the jazzy rock string orchestra. then guitar and..
rock! my rock band in school, an ambitious experimental mess on a farm in the middle of boredom.
later..electro..
weird avantgarde stuff i had to deal with in university...
trash and mistuned guitars..iceland.. at the moment.. ah im not sure anymore...
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i make my own videos for my live shows. check: videos. or http://www.youtube.com/user/goldendiskoship
Sounds Like
a mess of many instruments (guitars, viola, glockenspiel, sticky tape, cd cases, toy stuff etc etc) and some immature singing, combined with cheap electro beats/sounds and lousy mixing, intended to melt together to songs that should sound beautiful and interesting at the same time, lalalalalala.
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"Golden Disko Ship is better known to kith and kin as Berlin based musician Theresa Stroetges who to date has firmly tucked beneath her waistband the 'there's a chaos' EP (which we will do our level best to track down for future appraisal) and the forthcoming 'lonesome cowboy / Christmas tree'. Utilising an array of instruments, found sounds and non melodic objects, Ms Stroetges crafts dinkily drawn sweetly sensitive shy eyed cascading collages of irresistibly beguiling strange pop, combining a disarming hybrid of lucid folk motifs bleached, torn and interspersed with ether emerging electronic transmissions and hiccupping time signatures that impart a feeling on more than one occasion of being afloat some chemically enhanced dream like boat trip - our reckoning is that if this had arrived adorned with the seal of approval of either Fat Cat or Static Caravan then there would be much head nodding glee in certain quarters of the press and media. In terms of reference points 'bumblebee' had me recalling very much Takako Minekawa's excellent 'fun 9' set from 1999 while creaking eerily to resemble in terms of the dislocated textures - Serefina Steer's recent debut 'cheap demo bad science'. Coming housed in a beautifully looking hand crafted package - each of the six intricately layered and willowy cuts here appear to restlessly terra-form to evolve in real time almost giving the impression of works in progress, for the listener its like walking through a maze and finding the pathways and hedgerows dissolving haze like to re-appear re-aligned in differing formations. 'you blurry dream' opens the set to an array of deceptively lilting digital chatter before emerging from the haze into a twin tracked overlapping vocals and daintily drawn punctuated pastoral acoustic gem that's as good as anything we've heard since Lucie Wren's delectable 'a wall, a hole, a daydream' debut - did we mention it was unsettling enchanting and liberally threaded with delicate Neil Young like motifs (which strangely appear to be a re-occurring pre-occupation throughout). 'I wanna keep this as something that I don't understand' along with the closing 'wake / sleep' perhaps provide the set with its finest moments. The former an ethereal nugget that ventures into realms of Syd Barrett-esque laziness, squealing and pining riffs fracture and tear through the lysergic haze into warping moments of serene head tripping bliss while the aforementioned 'wake / sleep' is a sumptuously flirty and flighty mallowy slice of delicious dipped crooked romance cultured with looping beats and nursery room twinkling which to these ears sounds like an orbiting cavalry of Clangers tripping to montages speckled with 'Camberwick Green' accents. Elsewhere there's the gorgeously shanty like 'insane adventure poem' with its spring boarding clattering electronics that dissipate in time into a delicious side winding groove while the d_rradio like crunchy electro folk rustics present on (trying to decipher the writing here0 '19th floor eshockes' neatly exemplify Ms Stroetges attention to detail when trying to convey space / distance in terms of switching the vocals from the fore to the back. All in all a very beguiling release of disarming childlike naivety and considerable understated beauty. Single of the missive.
Mark Barton, Losing Today (UK) WWW.LOSINGTODAY.COM
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golden diskó ship is preparing old and new songs for her side of a 12" split vinyl with jasmina maschina which will be released in spring 2010 on monika enterprise!!! exciting!!!
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the golden diskó ship is a golden ship rotting around in the harbour of reykjavík and it looks super. i filmed it. and i heard the story about these guys who wanted to escape the icyiceland and make it a party ship in the caribbean islands or something, so they painted it gold. but its still right there and i dont know more. hm.
｡☆* Hi .. Hope alls well with you ,,i thought i would post the player again as it has 10 new vids now and free downloads available for fans. Hope you enjoy 〩 and Hope you have a great day!!Best Regards from Erik The Viking
gar keine gigs in berlin? was ist da los? :) du bist woanders unterwegs, das ist auch schön. da hast du zeit und kannst musik hören! ja, wenn du magst, hab ich jetzt ein album bei true call draußen, das ist gratis, du kannst es haben, hier:
Danke für die Freundschaft. Résiste geht auf Kinotour mit exklusivem Akustik Konzert von "The Busters feat. Katharina Wackernagel"! Tickets gibt's bei den jeweiligen Kinos. Unterstützt den Aufstand!
"Like the man who awoke to find himself drowning in a river, you may
roam the dark with 4 million other somnambulists - and never know it.
One soldier, after one of these attacks, he revealed that he had been
dreaming about trying to plow a field with a balky mule. ‘That mule
made me so darn mad I socked it,' he said. When he awoke, he found that
he had hit his wife in the face and broken her eardrum. His lawyer
successfully defended him by arguing that no one could be held
accountable for acts committed in his sleep. Why doesn’t he, like the
rest of us, lie quietly and work out the worries of his subconscious in
dreams of action, instead of acting out his dreams?"
'Strange facts about sleepwalking', in Mechanix Illustrated (Mar, 1949)
THE SOMNAMBULIST
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