Centaurs, the last inhabitants of Atlantis, pearl divers of the sky, ligers, hybrids of birds, dolphins and walnuts,
triplets of chocolate or flying tambourines? Yes, you'll find all of that in Marbert Rocel!
»What doesn't fit into a single sentence won't appear in our music."
It all started with the broken TV in Malik's and Panthera's flat. Extreme boredom was taking over so the two
began training dogs in deceptively real imitations of bass drums and Fender Rhodes. But as the dogs weren't
that committed to sticking around for the arrangement of the tracks, they got the boot and Marbert Rocel
focussed on MPC and computer instead. With all their remaining dog food they moved into a studio that the
nightingale Spunk had chosen for her nesting site.
»We built a beautiful golden cage next to a microphone, furnished it with silk and brocade, locked it carefully
with a paint brush and released our first album 'Speed Emotions' on Compost Records in 2007.« - A flash of lightning!
Over the course of the last 525,601 minutes Malik and Panthera took turns in counting backwards while Spunk
lived in disguise with a bird family next to the sports ground. They found glowing mountains of remixes from
Solomun over Trus’Me to Douglas Greed, smilingly recorded lots of beats and painted their soundscapes at
guest performances from Amsterdam to Olganitz, from the Fusion to the SonneMondSterne festivals.
Swept off their feet by having created typhoons on stage with nothing but vocals, rhodes, brass, MPC and synth
the trio set about a new album. They loaded their giant turtle (acquired as a bargain after the Copernicus
disaster) with musicians, fruit and a box of instant emotion, to ride up to Holger on the mountain. While he
prepared the finest German food for the band they found the recipe for their album:
keys (white and black ones in the ratio of 2 to 11 divided by f), a lovely distant voice, the twitter of gryphons
(temperature depending the tunes needed to be adjusted by 19 to 21 per cent), purring basslines, transformer
drums, milk, a wood-fired oven, brass angled by 3 degrees east and a bit of lunar dust.
All of this was jammed into a big box with a window and Marbert Rocel started the work on 'Catch A Bird'.
»We listen to rap, love jazz and like it best to dance to house. Spunk also enjoys changing tyres on monster
trucks. There is no well defined style – we're just making music in major with chords in minor.«
Exhilarating, but always with a stroke of bittersweet pain.
DISCOGRAPHY
marbert rocel - speed emotions 2*LP/CD(compost records)
marbert rocel - beats like birds_12" (compost records)
incl. remix by douglas greed
marbert rocel - cornflake boy_12" (compost records)
incl. remixes by krause duo, solomun and john daly
marbert rocel - the pack_12" (compost records)
incl. remixes by trus'me and the part time heroes/ the things
marbert rocel - deep marbert (more than loops sampler_zughafen)
REMIXES
clueso - pizzaschachteln_marbert rocel rmx (four music)
clueso - out of space_marbert rocels land of oos rmx (four music)
waggon cooking - mallorca_marbert rocel rmx (compost)
tim neuhaus - playin.. bill..s drums_marbert rocel rmx (more than loops 2 sampler_ zughafen)
marbert rocel_ba ba bounce live at zauberbaum camp (2009)
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marbert rocels_beats like birds_
musicvideo by trixie and panthera
marbert rocels liveperformance at Thüringenhalle, Erfurt (25.12.08)
Yo MARBERT ROCEL, Whenever I listen to your music. I feel like singing too. But your talent is unmatched. How much time you spend to rehearse per day MARBERT ROCEL? Love ya. B PS:Follow Me Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent
My Dear MARBERT ROCEL, I want you to know that your music and your songs are my passion. I am addicted. There is something that pulls me towards them. Keep it up MARBERT ROCEL. B PS:Follow Me Twitter at http://twitter.com/iaent
ENDLICH mit einer Woche verspätung lag gestern euer Albu in meinem Briefkasten. Ein sehr schönes Album, das eurem ersten Werk gerecht wird und dennoch nicht gleich klingt! Kommt ihr auf Tour?
dankeschön fürs annehmen! :) eure musik ist echt klasse. sowas hört man gerne! mal sehen ob ich mir das album kaufen werde, aber würde sich mit sicherheit lohnen. :)
bis hierhin liebe grüße und noch einen schönen abend
