OHcy-êspé

By means of various tape recorders, samplers, computers, a genuine Mellotron and a piano frame, OHcy-êspé provoked excessive Psychedelic orgies during numerous concerts until the end of the eighties. Their reputation as one of Hamburg’s most innovative and most hardboiled Underground bands was rapidly established.

At the beginning of the 90s OHcy-êspé started to deal with some more complex and elaborate forms of artistic expression. So, in addition to their vanguard performances with slide projections and video installations, OHcy-êspé produced a couple of short movies that were shown at several independent cinemas..

After a good deal of improvisational concerts and studio productions the band’s sound characteristics have grown increasingly sophisticated. OHcy-êspé incorporates elements from EBM, Electronic, New Music and Dancefloor into the already existing Psychedelic-Industrial sound..

Since the year 2000 OHcy-êspé have been busy composing and producing scores for independent films. In addition to these remittance works OHcy-êspé managed to place some successful tracks in the Independent Charts. “Satimata”, for example, hit number one and was elected best song of the month.

Up to the year 2008 the psychedelic opera „Adventures In An Iron Lung“ is created. It had its premiere at the theatre Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. 2009 OHcy-êspé presents the multimedia-spectacle "Manège à trois plus une" at the Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst and are working with the new drummer Falk Karolczak on their new CD.

By the way, this is a good time and place to finally reveal the secret of the band’s name:

“OHcy-êspé” (pronounced: O.C.S.P.) is a kind of a riddle. In German the “êspé” part is pronounced like the letters S and P (the accents, not being part of common German typography, are solely there for artistic reasons). Replace “êspé” with “SP” and you get “OHcy-SP”. Read it backwards, and there you are: PSYCHO !!!