First there was the clarinet duo of Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke The International Nothing. For their debut CD mainstream they recorded a song with Margareth Kammerer and asked Christof Kurzmann (who before already has worked with Commander Fagaschinski as Kommando Raumschiff Zitrone and as producer for Kammerer's album to be an animal of real flesh) for a remix of another song. These initial collaborations made them to go for more. So they started to work on a program in quartet format.
Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke developed a unique duo style in which their clarinets merge into a warm and moving sound. Margareth Kammerer stands for minimalist art songs. Most of her recent work has been solo; simply voice and acoustic guitar. Christof Kurzmann is not really to catch in the wide field between electronic music and pop song.
All of this comes together in their quartet. The challenge within the band is to find solutions with joint efforts and to compose the music collectively. Everyone contributes his/her ideas and everyone sounds a bit different than usual in this project. The result is a unique collection of strange and charming songs that do not care about their categorization with terms like experimental, pop, abstract, melodic a.s.o..
The quartet played concerts in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, among others at Music Unlimited (Wels 2006), Risonanze (Venice 2007), Jazz a Mulhouse (2007), Angelica (Bologna 2008), Vooruit (Gent 2009) and many times at the hometown's favourite Ausland.
In February 2008 Erstwhile Records released their debut LP/CD Till My Breath Gives Out. The album received rhapsodic feedback from the press and listeners.
In the meantime the collective developed a bunch of delicate new compositions.
For concert requests please send an email to:
themagicidNO(AT)SPAMklingt.org
"five years and counting" - schraum label festival !
On
september 11th and 12th Berlin based label schraum will celebrate its
fifth birthday at Weisepuff - a new venue in Berlin-Neukölln. We invite
you to listen to some of the great acts who released music on our small
label during the last years...
*********** fr sept 11th
UTE VÖLKER SOLO accordeon solo
AXEL HALLER SOLO electric bass & objets trouvés
Torsten Papenheim's TRU CARGO SERVICE Christian Biegai - altosax Matthias Müller - trombone Dave Bennett - guitar, clarinet Torsten Papenheim - guitar, banjo Berit Jung - double bass Christian Marien - drums
*********** sa sept 12th
HUGHES / SCHERZBERG / WIESE John Hughes - double bass Lars Scherzberg - alto- and sopraninosax Nicolas Wiese - electronics
HOTELGÄSTE Michael Thieke - clarinet, altosax, zither Dave Bennett - guitar, radio Derek Shirley - double bass
hallo ihr vier. besten dank & viele grüße ausm wedding. und unten noch ein bißchen werbung. ja, so siehts aus. tp
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ganz neu erschienen:
"Some Of The Things We Could Be"
Twelve new pieces composed and arranged by Torsten Papenheim.
Produced by Dave Bennett and Torsten Papenheim.
Released on schraum, Berlin.
Performed by Dave Bennett, Merle Bennett, Christian Biegai, Axel
Haller, Christian Marien, Matthias Müller, Derek Shirley, Roland
Spieth, Michael Thieke, Clayton Thomas, Gerhard Uebele, Torsten
Papenheim, Ute Völker.
on friday, june 19th, the release will be celebrated at electronic church, berlin. hope to see you all there!
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Hallo liebe Freunde! At last I discover the artwork for the record.. Great! I like it a lot.. Impatient to hold it in my hands while listening to Michael & Tigerman blowing, Margareth & Christof twanging.. Take care! jf
sehr schön... ich hoffr ihr gehtd alles wunderbar. alles ist fein hier. maggie ich habe flavia´s number verloren kannst du mich hilfen? machts euch sehr gut. bis bald. j
