now that the ghost of christmas has let us go it's time to find a red velvet carpet again and have some wine before spring's first signs will bring new multicolored toy instruments, long forgotten flutes and, finally, a real ukulele. marinus, mireia, medea and magnus love you.
Influences
franco battiato, hertta lussu ässä, reynols, the shadow ring, die tödliche doris, fibo trespo, jean dubuffet, miquel noguera, fischli & weiss, tu madre, destroy all monsters, mattin, junko, selten gehörte musik/dieter roth, luxus, mu, the poetics, can't, the new peculiars
these are names that fell out of mireia's and magnus' pockets one cold night in shiny golden october 2007. Rinus, however, cannot think of any real influences.
Sounds Like
junk shop toy instruments and cheap recording devices however, now that rinus has travelled so far we know two things: Topmodel sounds like 'we miss you.'But most of all it sounds like our birthdays.
here is what the ever so lovely (however mysteriously vanished) polka dot dicso zine wrote about us in their final issue:
"mireia sings, rinus plays broken tunes and clumsy percussive fragments on cheap instruments, magnus plays broken tunes and clumsy percussive fragments on cheap instruments, too. they tried to cover serge gainsbourg's je t'aime once, but they failed."
(we succeeded later on)
Furthermore, Rinus couldn't help to overhear the Uzbekistian Ambassador when he was at the release party of Claudia Schiffer's new Dub album:" We had red whine and carriages on our last wedding. A girl with a pencil sticking in her brain was writing a poem, and a trio sitting on the royal carpet was playing elephant cymbals and camel chimes. I cannot recall their name, which is a shame, because I would like to invite them to my country."
and this is what ralf said to us before our show at madame claude:
"ich liebe eure musik. für mich seid ihr berlin.
Alessandro Bosetti will report in from his travels through the southern states of the USA and will perform translations from gullah/pennsylvania dutch/creole/cajun french/tewa and navajo languages.
Soichiro Mitsuya will translate his amazement and wonderment about the ongoing noise constructions on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, and will use a special setting to amplify his recordings.
Michael Northam has freshly arrived in Berlin after a six months stay in India. His soundworks will be based on recordings made in that period.
klar, scheinbar ist zürich ja eine stadt mit höchster lebensqualität, so laut internationalen vergleichsstudien mein ich. nur arbeiten tun sie zuviel, die eidgenossen..und ich mit! aber dich hier anzutreffen, damit hätt ich echt nicht gerechnet, muss ich sagen. aber wie gewohnt aussergewöhnliche musik macht ihr da;)
