Sula Bassana

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.
You find a nice Sula Bassana story at italian Perkele Magazine (in italian language).
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.
NEW: 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
2006: CD and LP "Sula Bassana and the Nasoni Pop Art Experimental Band Vol.1" on Nasoni-Rec.
2006: CD-R "Endless Winter"
2006: CD-R from Electric Orange and Sula Bassana (sold out)
2006: 2-CD-R "Spaced Out" live at freakWEEKnoEND 2006
2007: CD-R "Half Past Six" (with Modulfix)
NEW: CD-R "Dämmerung" (with Modulfix)
OUT NOW: The Vegetable Man Project Vol. 5 with a cool "Vegetable Man goes Pompeji" version by Sula Bassana!
You can order all of Sula's stuff at:
sulatron-records
take a listen to some sulatracks at the following myspace samplers:
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
Sula runs two radioshows at Austrian indipendent radio Freies Radio Salzkammergut .
One show, together with Miss Ghoul, called "Ein Kessel Buntes" (every month at the third Friday night, 9 to 11 o'clock), is about all interesting and psychedelic stuff from the 50's till now, incl. rock'n'roll, garage, punk, psychedelic, dub, electronic...
The other show, called "Nachtflug" (every month at first Wednesday night 23 o'clock), is about relaxed and moody stuff, great to chill or drive thru the night...
EIN KESSEL BUNTES playlists
NACHTFLUG playlists
You can also book the "Ein Kessel Buntes" team (Sula and Miss Ghoul) as DJs for all kinds of psychedelic (60's garage-punk-psych, neo-psych, stoner-and space-rock, postrock, dub, elektronik...)
new greek magazine out now, featuring more than 3 pages Sula interview plus Sula track on the CD-sampler!