first there was the clarinet duo of kai and michael the international nothing. for their debut cd mainstream they recorded a song with margareth and asked christof (who before already has worked with kai as kommando raumschiff zitrone and as producer for margareth..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, which includes duo, trio and quartet pieces.
kai and michael developed a unique duo style in which their clarinets merge into a warm and moving sound. margareth stands for minimalist art songs. most of her recent work has been solo; simply voice and acoustic guitar. christof 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 charming mixture of strange songs and instrumentals that do not care about their categorization with terms like experimental, pop, abstract, melodic a.s.o..
in november 2006 the quartet presented their music live in berlin, wels (music unlimited festival) and vienna. as well they went into the amann studio in vienna to do recordings for their forthcoming debut album.
the magic i.d. signed to be the initial release of erstpop, a new branch of erstwhile records. "till my breath gives out" (cd & lp) has been released in february 2008.
in the meantime a few more concerts and songs happened.
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
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