Christian Clement : piano, vocals;
Chris Belardi : drums;
Luc Caregari : bass and guitars;
Christian Neyens ; electronic, organs;
David Fettmann : altosax; Olivier Lefèvre : cello, Paul Belardi: vibraphone, keys, backing vocals; Roxane Birch: violon and doublebass;
Jacques Reuter: trombone; Rob Köller: souzaphone; Tim Ecker: trumpet; Alban Birch: baryton, soprano saxes, viola; Carlo Krausch : percussions and Luca Sales: piano
CONTACT: jeanterre2@yahoo.de OR a_chrescht@hotmail.com
PHONE: 00352661197853
TRAUMKAPITÄN. HOW THINGS CAME TO BE… in 2005-2006 Christian Clement wrote about 12 songs and called the whole thing TRAUMKAPITÄN. The mixture of foxtrot, tango, jazz, straight rock and reggae rhythms gives the music a quite unusual postmodern-patchwork feel, and the melodies from jazzy to minor-baroque-pop lend the songs an edgy but catchy character. Robert Wyatt, the Beatles, Carla Bley (Escalator over the Hill), Sonic Youth, Gainsbourg, Godspeed You Black Emperor!... or anything from Charles Ives to Talking Heads have influenced the music. Christian thought of a kind of a darker Kurt- Weill-type jazz band for his songs and looked for other musicians to work with. A first band with drums, bass, cello and trombone played a few times but some musicians that came from the improvising scene did not entirely fit in with the fully composed music of Christian Clement, so he looked for other musicians and the songs grew with the people he played with. Christian recorded a few sketches on his home computer for promoting the music. He asked David Fettmann, who he met in 2005, to join TRAUMKAPITÄN on saxophone. Jacques Hansel - aka Blue Dressed Man, an ambient-electro artist - joined the project for some time too. He did remixes before there was actually a band. Drummers and bassists played for some time but it seemed that it was not easy to play on this kind of complex piano-pop-songs. He met Luc Caregari. They immediately seemed to be on the same wavelength and Luc was interested in becoming part of the TRAUMKAPITÄN machinery. Chris Belardi and Christian Neyens, a longtime friend, joined the band soon after. They had played a few gigs on the Luxembourg music scene when Rocco Russo offered to produce Christian Clement’s first full-length album. After three months of recording with a new cello player, Olivier Lefèvre, and another new member, Pol Belardi on vibraphone, TRAUMKAPITÄN won the Luxembourg finals to get in the pool for the final selection to present their music at the Printemps de Bourges in Paris. Since then Roxane and Alban Birch have joined the permanent line-up on violin, double bass and saxophone. Further more, Alban took the role as sound engineer. TRAUMKAPITÄN will contribute “House of Glass” to a compilation album by Digital Kranky, a collective based in Berlin. On June 8th 2008 TRAUMKAPITÄN’s first full length album got released (VIRTUE COMICAL). They say Dadadadadadidodadadididododada!
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Best wishes from Fruits de Mer Records, a small but perfectly-formed new psych/prog label.
Check out our site, updated with old and new videos, all the latest news on our first single (Small Faces' Ogden's meets Van der Graaf Generator's Theme One - both by the brilliant Schizo Fun Addict - a very limited coloured vinyl pressing, just 300 copies), along with a few random live reviews, old jokes and all manner of stuff
Plus early news on our next project, with Mellow Candle's Alison O'Donnell!
Hope you and your friends enjoy!
Just posted - Record Collector magazine's review of our first single (and they love it)
bonjour... the virtue comical has reached the sand in heidelberg and i have to say: i am freakingly impressed! vielleicht schaffe ich es irgendwann mal in euer groussherzogtum lëtzebuerg, um euch live zu sehen.
alloha jongens. puh der abend is geschafft und wie.. ich bin stolz wie oskar dass das so gut lief all respekt to iou chaos truppe. maaaaan an der kommunkation arbeiten wir dann noch ne ;) hehe aber echt super geil abgegangen und von mir jetzt auch ma n fettes merci das ich dabei sein durfte. grüzi pippilotta aka anne
majo, welcome among my virutal friends !! lo kënnt der iech jo ukucken wat ech man, et sin och fotos vun den kleeder op mengem site... wéini wou leeft dat dann lo en sonnden? wéini soll ech mat popp an kleeder do undanzen? den luc seet mer ëmmer: mir mussen doriwwer schwätzen mee mir man et ni ;-) bis geschwënn
oh man... aaaah. also ich hab jetzt grad wieder internet und telefon.aber jetzt geht die mail bei myspace wieder nicht. also pass auf, ich hab bei der nummer angerufen die du mir geschickt hast aber da komm ihc bei ner baufirma raus... also musst du mir die nummer noch mal schicken oder der typ ruft mich an ich hab nämlich momentan kein kredit... bin grad umgezogen und das festnetz is am laden weil es keine batterie hat mometan und die baufirma hat meinen restlichen kredit vernascht ,kriese.ich würd dir das ja gerne per sms schicken oder dich ma anrufen das würd viel schneller gehen. gruss anne
ma merde.d madam fiert den 7ten op d plage.daat as natierlech lo blöd. (roooooh, lo schwätzen ech hei mat engem band-profile.jesus.) an uuuuh, ech hun en cat 1 ticket fir tom waits.kannsde et gleewen?ech net.
