Heaven And

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Genre: Blues / Experimental / Psychedelic
Location Berlin - Wien, DE
Profile Views: 61601
Last Login: 2/21/2013
Member Since 5/2/2008
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vaGVhdmVuYW5kLmtsaW5ndC5vcmc=
Record Label staubgold
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Heaven And - Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King .. CD/LP Out Now on Staubgold Records (Staubgold 98) 2010 .. .. Heaven And - Sweeter As the Years Roll By .. CD / LP on Staubgold Records (Staubgold 87) 2008 .. .. Tony Buck - drums .. Steve Heather - drums, marimba, percussion, harp .. Martin Siewert - guitars, electronics .. zeitblom - basses .. .. Booking: .. Shakti Music - Danilo Pellegrinelli - dpellegrinelli@bluewin.ch .. .. .. .. Towards the end of a long journey, one starts to look forward to coming home. A similar feeling might be experienced by musicians who have spent years engaging themselves in artistic utopias, explored new fusion styles and investigated modern production tools and found themselves glued to a computer in the process. After all these years, these musicians might have developed a certain craving to once more play in a sturdy, sweaty, hands-on live band (with a keen drive to create something new, of course). .. .. "Heaven And is a band which does not recoil from obvious musical references", guitarist Martin Siewert (Trapist) remarks. "It's this approach alone that distinguishes us from the majority of projects in the field of improvised music." Siewert's partner in production and bass player zeitblom adds: "To let our joint musical backgrounds flow into this music is a vital part of the concept. Thus, ideas from archaic blues, psychedelic rock, Sun Ra's Arkestra and Miles Davis' electric jazz are fused. We have isolated the individual influences from their original context and put them into a new musical environment." The bold play with homages and codes is very risky, but then the individualists who make up Heaven And are experienced enough to dodge all snares and springs of the bland musical quotation. And even if the listener might find a lot of stylistic devices and fragments which sound (deceptively) familiar - Heaven And's second album simply cannot be attributed to any genre. (Norbert Krampf) .. .. BIOGRAPHIES: .. .. Vienna-based guitarist MARTIN SIEWERT has been playing in diverse bands and collectives as well as working solo. Otomo Yoshihide, Oren Ambarchi, Elliott Sharp, Philip Jeck, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Wayne Horvitz, Werner Dafeldecker, Christof Kurzmann, Max Nagl, Franz Hautzinger or Christian Fennesz are only a few of the artists, which whom he has been collaborating. In his work with the trio Trapist (with Martin Brandlmayr & Joe Williamson), Siewert focuses on abstraction of song-related forms & structures. In recent times, theatre and moviegoers also had the possibilitiy of coming into contact with his music. .. .. Drummer and percussionist TONY BUCK has been an integral part of the Australian jazz scene for some years. He is a member of the trio The Necks as well as the main man behind Peril, a hardcore improvisation-band, which he founded in 1992 in Japan with Otomo Yoshihide and Kato Hideki. His range of musical activities stretches from playing in no-nonsense-rock-outfits to audio-visual designing of museums. His main interest is free improvisation. In the past, he has been playing with Tom Cora, Peter Brötzmann, The Ex, Paul Lovens, Jon Rose, David Moss, Aki Takase, Ground Zero, Markus Stockhausen, Phil Minton, John Zorn, Haino, Hans Reichel, Han Bennink, Wayne Horvitz to name but a few. He devides his time between Australia and his current place of residency, Berlin. .. .. Not only is STEVE HEATHER Tony Buck's co-drummer and percussionist in Heaven And, but he also hails from Australia. After studying music, he played for a long time in Melbourne's local scene, from whence he moved to Amsterdam and then to Berlin. He works as a composer, sound designer and performer in the fields of dance, theatre, film and new media. He has been collaborating with Andy Moor, Joe Williamson and Boris Hauf among others. .. .. zeitblom is sort of a veteran, a doyen of the experimental music scene in Germany. In 1984, he founded the avant rock band Sovetskoe Foto, in which he played until 1993. In the following years, he has been active as electro-acoustic composer, producer and bass player; he realized installations as well as music for theatre and radio plays, while also appearing live in numerous band-contexts. Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Jim 'Foetus' Thirlwell, John Zorn, Christian Fennesz, Christian Marcley and Pole are only a few name that stick out in a long list of musical collaborations. Code: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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Steve Heather .. Martin Siewert .. zeitblom .. ..
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