Dave Schmidt aka Sula Bassana was born in Berlin at the same day Syd Barrett had to leave the Pink Floyd. It was the 27th of January 1968, as well as Nick Masons Birthday. Bad karma? Hopefully not...
Dave first entered stage in 1985 or 86, can..t remember, as keyboardplayer of the electronic duo Solaris. Several electronic duos and trios followed.
In 1994 he co-founded the psychedelic rockband Liquid Visions. In 1997 he founded Zone Six to create spontaneous psychedelic spacerock trips. In 1998 Andi (Growing Seeds) and Dave formed the studioproject Weltraumstaunen to record some excellent freak outs. In 1998 he moved to Bayreuth (Bavaria) to fill the drummers seat in the spacerockband Growing Seeds. But in early 1999 they gave up and he went back to Berlin. In early 2003 he left Liquid Visions.
There was also a little episode with a nice ambient, drum'n'bass and dub-project called Space Shuttle Pilots, but sadly without any proper release.
Sula's first solo-album Dreamer was released on Nasoni-Records in 2002. More albums followed. Dave played in several projects, such as Psychedelic Monsterjam, together with Mani Neumeier on drums and Ax Genrich on guitar. In 2003 he co-founded the psychedelic-postrock-project Südstern 44, together with Ellipopelli and Julius K.
In late summer 2006 he moved to Austria and founded his label sulatron-records, plays guitar in the young local rockband Alice Dog and has started a new project called Interkosmos, with Sergio Ceballos (guitar and vocals, from RIP KC, Spain), Bernhard Fasching (drums, from The Blowing Lewinsky) and Dave on bass. He also played some gigs as guitarplayer with the Øresund Space Collective in Germany and Norway.
He also jammed on stage with the following bands and musicians: Gas Giant, Circle, Damo Suzuki, Keiji Miashita, Horst Porkert, The Movements, Electric Orange, Niagaragain, Spheric Lounge, Annot Rhül and members of Seid... mostly in Germany, but also in Austria, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway.
The latest project is based at his new home, together with his landlord and saxophone-wizard Mario Rechtern and spontaneous guests: Das Alte Haus.
You find a nice Sula Bassana story at italian Perkele Magazine (in italian language).
Read a new Sula interview at Generated X (in german language)!
Please visit Sula's SPACE FARM AHOI FESTIVAL!
And please take a look to Sula's mailorder and label sulatron-records (on my space).
Discography:
2002: LP "Dreamer" on Nasoni-Records
2003: CD-R "Sulatronics"
2003: LP "Retronique", Split LP with Vibravoid on Nasoni-Records (sold out)
2004: CD "Dreamer" on Sulatron-Records (sold out)
2005: CD "Dreamer", reissue on Elektrohasch-Records (sold out)
2006: CD and LP "Sula Bassana and the Nasoni Pop Art Experimental Band Vol.1" on Nasoni-Rec.
2006: CD-R "Endless Winter" on Sulatron-Records
2006: CD-R by Electric Orange and Sula Bassana (sold out)
2006: 2-CD-R "Spaced Out" live at freakWEEKnoEND 2006, on Sulatron-Records
2007: CD-R "Half Past Six" (with Modulfix), on Sulatron-Records
2007: CD-R "Dämmerung" (with Modulfix), on Sulatron-Records
2007: The Vegetable Man Project Vol. 5 with a cool "Vegetable Man goes Pompeji" version by Sula Bassana!
OUT NOW: CD-R "Sulatronics 2" on Sulatron-Records, a little tribute to my space-movie-heroes (Barbarella, Stella Star etc.)
OUT NOW on sulatron (out in germany in june, out rest of the world may 14th): new cd "the night"!!!!!
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You can order all of Sula's stuff at:
sulatron-records Click on the covers for more information:
take a listen to some sulatracks at the following myspace free download samplers:
Barbarella on My Outer Space Vol. 4:
Dealer McDope at Your Psychedelic Tunes
Space Taxi on the Neutrinos Odyssey-downloadsampler at Underwater Analog Colonies [NET LABEL]
and some more NOW at Versolafine
You can also book Sula as DJ for all kinds of psychedelic (60's garage-punk-psych, neo-psych, stoner-and space-rock, postrock, dub, elektronik...)!
Visit Sula's Youtube-profile!
new greek magazine TIMAZINE 2 out now, featuring more than 3 pages Sula interview plus Sula track on the CD-sampler!
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